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Strange springs in many dimensions: how parametric resonance can explain divergence under covariate shift.
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Most convergence guarantees for stochastic gradient descent with momentum (SGDm) rely on independently and identically ditributed (iid) data sampling. Yet, SGDm is often used outside this regime, in settings with temporally correlated inputs such as continual learning and reinforcement learning....
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Fall 2017
Many applications that use geographical databases (a.k.a. gazetteers) rely on the accuracy of the information in the database. However, poor data quality is an issue in gazetteers; often data is integrated from multiple sources with different quality constraints and there may not be much detail...
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Strengths, Weaknesses, and Combinations of Model-based and Model-free Reinforcement Learning
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Reinforcement learning algorithms are conventionally divided into two approaches: a model-based approach that builds a model of the environment and then computes a value function from the model, and a model-free approach that directly estimates the value function. The first contribution of this...
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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...
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Spring 2014
All along their lives, individuals take roles in their interactions with each other. This behaviour is known as the role-taking characteristic of human beings. We refer to these roles as social roles that are the primary components of societies. Identifying social roles in a society helps to...
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Fall 2015
Extracting 3D geometry of an object from 2D images has been a popular topic in computer vision for decades. Many methods have been proposed to solve this problem with high accuracy and structured light methods are one of the most commonly used. Despite their high accuracy, there are limitations...
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Fall 2012
In this thesis, we present Structured Message Transport (SMT). SMT is a transport protocol coordinator designed to alleviate the head-of-line blocking problem of existing transport layer protocols including the most widely used, transmission control protocol (TCP). SMT uses explicit dependency...
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Studying Limitations of Generative Transformer based models for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
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Companies can only progress if they understand what their customers feel about their products and services. With companies having an online presence, and with the availability of third-party online reviewing platforms like Yelp, it becomes critical to scour through online reviews. Analysing...