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Fall 2023
The problem of missing data is omnipresent in a wide range of real-world datasets. When learning and predicting on this data with neural networks, the typical strategy is to fill-in or complete these missing values in the dataset, called impute-then-regress. Much less common is to attempt to...
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Spring 2019
In this thesis we introduce a new loss for regression, the Histogram Loss. There is some evidence that, in the problem of sequential decision making, estimating the full distribution of return offers a considerable gain in performance, even though only the mean of that distribution is used in...
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Fall 2021
Structural credit assignment in neural networks is a long-standing problem, with a variety of alternatives to backpropagation proposed to allow for local training of nodes. One of the early strategies was to treat each node as an agent and use a reinforcement learning method called REINFORCE to...