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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
- 2Continual Learning
- 1Generate and Test
- 1Lifelong Learning
- 1Machine Learning
- 1Neural Network Pruning
- 1Reinforcement Learning
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Spring 2023
Gradient Descent algorithms suffer many problems when learning representations using fixed neural network architectures, such as reduced plasticity on non-stationary continual tasks and difficulty training sparse architectures from scratch. A common workaround is continuously adapting the neural...
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Fall 2024
If we aspire to design algorithms that can run for long periods, continually adapting to new, unexpected situations, then we must be willing to deploy our agents without tuning their hyperparameters over the agent’s entire lifetime. The standard practice in deep RL—and even continual RL—is to...