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  • Simulator-Defined MDP Planning with Applications in Natural Resource Management

    Creator:
    Alkaee Taleghan, Majid
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    This work is inspired by problems in natural resource management centered on the challenge of invasive species. Computing optimal management policies for maintaining ecosystem sustainable is challenging. Many ecosystem management problems can be formulated as MDP (Markov Decision Process) planning problems. In a simulator-defined MDP, the Markovian dynamics and rewards...
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    Dissertation
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    Hutchinson, and John Dilles, for their constructive comments on my research. I would like to acknowledge all

  • Machine learning methods for public policy : simulation, optimization, and visualization

    Creator:
    McGregor, Sean
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    Society faces many complex management problems, particularly in the area of shared public resources such as ecosystems. Existing decision making processes are often guided by personal experience and political ideology rather than state-of-the-art scientific understanding. This dissertation envisions a future in which multiple stakeholders are provided with computational tools for...
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    Dissertation
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    , Ronald Metoyer, Prasad Tadepalli, Margaret Burnett, and John Bolte for the time and effort they

  • Incorporating User Feedback into Machine Learning Systems

    Creator:
    Das, Shubhomoy
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    Although machine learning systems are often effective in real-world applications, there are situations in which they can be even better when provided with some degree of end user feedback. This is especially true when the machine learning system needs to customize itself to the end user's preferences, such as in...
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    Dissertation
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    systems. I am grateful that Dr. John Dilles volunteered to serve as the Graduate Council Representative

  • Improving automated email tagging with implicit feedback

    Creator:
    Sorower, Mohammad Shahed
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    Machine learning systems are generally trained offline using ground truth data that has been labeled by experts. However, these batch training methods are not a good fit for many applications, especially in the cases where complete ground truth data is not available for offline training. In addition, batch methods do...
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    Dissertation

  • Event detection with forward-backward recurrent neural networks

    Creator:
    Ghaeini, Mohammad Reza
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    Automatic event extraction from natural text is an important and challenging task for natural language understanding. Traditional event detection methods heavily rely on manually engineered rich features. Recent deep learning approaches alleviate this problem by automatic feature engineering. But such efforts, like tradition methods, have so far only focused on...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for Computational Linguistics, 2016. [6] John Duchi, Elad Hazan, and Yoram Singer. Adaptive

  • Novelty Detection Under the Multi-Instance Multi-Label Framework

    Creator:
    Lou, Qi
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    Novelty detection plays an important role in machine learning and signal processing. This project studies novelty detection in a new setting where the data object is represented as a bag of instances and associated with multiple class labels, referred to as multi-instance multi-label (MIML) learning. Contrary to the common assumption...
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    Capstone Project
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    . 28 [13] Bernhard Schölkopf, Robert C. Williamson, Alex J. Smola, John Shawe-Taylor, and John C

  • Parsing with Recurrent Neural Networks

    Creator:
    Cross, James Henry, III
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    Machine learning models for natural language processing have traditionally relied on large numbers of discrete features, built up from atomic categories such as word forms and part-of-speech labels, which are considered completely distinct from each other. Recently however, the advent of dense feature representations coupled with deep learning techniques has...
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    Dissertation

  • Investigating Latent State and Uncertainty Representations in Reinforcement Learning

    Creator:
    Koul, Anurag
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    Learning latent space representations of high-dimensional world states has been at the core of recent rapid growth in reinforcement learning(RL). At the same time, RL algo- rithms have suffered from ignored uncertainties in the predicted estimates of model-free or model-based methods. In our work, we investigate both of these aspects...
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    Dissertation

  • Efficient Incremental Panorama Reconstruction from Multiple Videos

    Creator:
    Feng, Zhongyuan
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    Constructing a panorama from a set of videos is a long-standing problem in computer vision. A panorama represents an enhanced still-image representation of an entire scene captured in a set of videos, where each video shows only a part of the scene. Importantly, a panorama shows only the scene background,...
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    Capstone Project

  • Learning greedy policies for the easy-first framework

    Creator:
    Xie, Jun
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    Easy-first, a search-based structured prediction approach, has been applied to many NLP tasks including dependency parsing and coreference resolution. This approach employs a learned greedy policy (action scoring function) to make easy decisions first, which constrains the remaining decisions and makes them easier. This thesis studies the problem of learning...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , John Walker Orr, Prashanth Mannem, and Shahed Sorower, for the stimulating discussions. Last but not