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Fall 2010
Performance and stability of many iterative algorithms such as stochastic gradient descent largely depend on a fixed and scalar step-size parameter. Use of a fixed and scalar step-size value may lead to limited performance in many problems. We study several existing step-size adaptation...
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Spring 2014
Each patient with Type-1 diabetes must decide how much insulin to inject before each meal to maintain an acceptable level of blood glucose. The actual injection dose is based on a formula that takes current blood glucose level and the meal size into consideration. While following this insulin...
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Public Health Applications Using Big Data and Machine Learning Methods: Name- and Location-based Aboriginal Ethnicity Classification and Sentiment Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening in the United States Using Twitter
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Applications using big data and machine learning techniques are transforming how people live in the 21st century, however they are generally underutilized in public health compared to other domains. We proposed and conducted two independent studies to investigate how big data and machine learning...