Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Abdi Oskouie, Mina
- 2Birkbeck, Neil Aylon Charles
- 2Cai, Zhipeng
- 2Chen, Jiyang
- 2Chowdhury, Md Solimul
- 2Chubak, Pirooz
- 74Machine Learning
- 70Reinforcement Learning
- 41Artificial Intelligence
- 36Machine learning
- 22Natural Language Processing
- 22Reinforcement learning
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Spring 2015
Cluster analysis plays a very important role for understanding various phenomena about data without any prior knowledge. However, hierarchical clustering algorithms, which are widely used for its representation of data, are computationally expensive. Recently large datasets are prevalent in many...
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Fall 2023
Deep learning approaches have had success in many domains recently, particularly in domains with large amounts of training data. However, there are domains without a sufficient quantity of training data, or where the training data present is of insufficient quality. Transfer learning approaches...
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Fall 2021
Heuristic search is a core area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with numerous applications. In video games it is commonly used to calculate paths of AI-controlled agents. Traditionally, heuristic search algorithms have been designed by humans. Recent work attempted to synthesise heuristic search...