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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
- 83Machine Learning
- 76Reinforcement Learning
- 42Artificial Intelligence
- 37Machine learning
- 24Natural Language Processing
- 23reinforcement learning
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Fall 2014
Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) have recently attracted increasing research attention for their potential use in supporting many important applications and services. Examples include scientific applications such as studies of marine life, industrial applications such as monitoring underwater...
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Fall 2016
In recent years, Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs) have attracted attention for their potential use in many applications. To name a few, UWSNs have been considered in studying marine life, oceanographic data collection, monitoring underwater oil pipelines, and a variety of military and homeland...
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Probabilistic Methods for Discrete Labeling Problems in Digital Image Processing and Analysis
DownloadFall 2012
Many problems in digital image processing and analysis can be interpreted as labeling problems, which aim to find the optimal mapping from a set of sites to a set of labels. A site represents a certain primitive, such as a pixel, while a label represents a certain quantity, such as disparity in...
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Spring 2013
This work introduces the “online probing” problem: In each round, the learner is able to purchase the values of a subset of features for the current instance. After the learner uses this information to produce a prediction for this instance, it then has the option of paying for seeing the full...
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Probing the Robustness of Pre-trained Language Models for Structured and Unstructured Entity Matching
DownloadSpring 2023
The paradigm of fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) has been successful in Entity Matching (EM). Many contemporary works leverage PLM-based models to push the state of the results. However, using the power of transformer-based models has some downsides in this task. Despite their...
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Fall 2023
Product Entity Matching (PEM) is a challenging subfield of record linkage that involves linking records referring to the same real-world product. Despite recent transformer models showing near-perfect performance scores on various datasets, they struggle the most when dealing with PEM datasets....
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Fall 2009
This thesis addresses the challenge of prognosis, in terms of survival prediction, for patients with Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumors. Glioblastoma is the most malignant brain tumor, which has a median survival time of no more than a year. Accurate assessment of prognostic factors is critical...
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Fall 2018
Heterogeneous computing is becoming increasingly common in high-end computer systems, with vendors often including compute accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units~(GPUs) and Field-Programmable Gate Arrays~(FPGAs) for increased throughput and power efficiency. This thesis addresses the...