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Matrix and Tensor Approximation for Internet Latency Prediction and Online Purchase Prediction
DownloadFall 2015
In this thesis, I study the application of matrix and tensor approximation techniques to Internet latency prediction and purchase prediction in e-commerce. Traditional approaches for latency prediction suffer from the limitation of the Euclidean assumptions such as triangle inequality and...
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Spring 2020
Natural Language Processing (NLP) and understanding aims to read from unformatted text to accomplish different tasks. As a first step, it is necessary to represent text as a simplified model. Traditionally, Vector Space Model (VSM) is most commonly used, in which text is represented as a bag of...