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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Spring 2015
Much of the focus on finding good representations in reinforcement learning has been on learning complex non-linear predictors of value. Methods like policy gradient, that do not learn a value function and instead directly represent policy, often need fewer parameters to learn good policies....
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Spring 2024
In model-based reinforcement learning, an agent can improve its policy by planning: learning from experience generated by a model. Search control is the problem of determining which starting state should be used to generate this experience. Given a limited planning budget, an agent should be...
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Spring 2021
Existing signal control systems are usually based on traffic flow data from fixed location detectors. Because of rapid advances in the emerging vehicular communication, connected vehicle (CV)-based signal control demonstrates significant improvements over existing conventional signal control...