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Theses and Dissertations
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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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Recommender systems to support socio-collaborative learning in educational discussion forums
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With the popularity of online education, many educational technologies have been introduced to support students' learning. Among them, asynchronous discussion forums are widely used to support students’ socio-collaborative learning processes. However, the forum's complex thread structure and...
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Fall 2023
The transformer architecture is effective in processing sequential data, both because of its ability to leverage parallelism, and because of its self-attention mechanism capable of capturing long-range dependencies. However, the self-attention mechanism is slow for streaming data, that is when...
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Regret Minimization in Games and the Development of Champion Multiplayer Computer Poker-Playing Agents
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Recently, poker has emerged as a popular domain for investigating decision problems under conditions of uncertainty. Unlike traditional games such as checkers and chess, poker exhibits imperfect information, varying utilities, and stochastic events. Because of these complications, decisions at...
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Fall 2020
Computing a Nash equilibrium in zero-sum games, or more generally saddle point optimization, is a fundamental problem in game theory and machine learning, with applications spanning across a wide variety of domains, from generative modeling and computer vision to super-human AI in imperfect...
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Fall 2011
This thesis studies the reinforcement learning and planning problems that are modeled by a discounted Markov Decision Process (MDP) with a large state space and finite action space. We follow the value-based approach in which a function approximator is used to estimate the optimal value function....
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Spring 2015
This dissertation explores regularized factor models as a simple unification of machine learn- ing problems, with a focus on algorithmic development within this known formalism. The main contributions are (1) the development of generic, efficient algorithms for a subclass of regularized...
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Spring 2021
On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 lunar module, with Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard, landed on the moon. It was a great achievement in space exploration. Most people know of this mission's success; yet, there is an untold story about this mission that many people are not aware...