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  • A study of methods for fine-grained object classification of arthropod specimens

    Creator:
    Lin, Junyuan
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    Object categorization is one of the fundamental topics in computer vision research. Most current work in object categorization aims to discriminate among generic object classes with gross differences. However, many applications require much finer distinctions. This thesis focuses on the design, evaluation and analysis of learning algorithms for fine- grained...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the within-cluster scatter is defined as min µk,cj J = M∑ j=1 K∑ k=1 cjk‖xj − µk‖22. The

  • Revisiting output coding for sequential supervised learning

    Creator:
    Hao, Guohua
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    Markov models are commonly used for joint inference of label sequences. Unfortunately, inference scales quadratically in the number of labels, which is problematic for training methods where inference is repeatedly preformed and is the primary computational bottleneck for large label sets. Recent work has used output coding to address this...
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    unknown 9 distribution P (x, y), that is, ∆m(xi, yi) = [ − ∂ ∂Ψ(xi, yi) ∑ j `(xj, yj, Ψ(xj, yj

  • Open Set Learning with Counterfactual Images

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    Neal, Lawrence W.
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    In open set recognition, a classifier must label instances of known classes while detecting instances of unknown classes not encountered during training. To detect unknown classes while still generalizing to new instances of existing classes, this thesis introduces a dataset augmentation technique called counterfactual image generation. This approach, based on...
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    examples. Given a mean activation vector for each class j ∈ [1...K], a Weibull distribution with values (τ

  • Efficient training and feature induction in sequential supervised learning

    Creator:
    Hao, Guohua
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    Sequential supervised learning problems arise in many real applications. This dissertation focuses on two important research directions in sequential supervised learning: efficient training and feature induction. In the direction of efficient training, we study the training of conditional random fields (CRFs), which provide a flexible and powerful model for sequential...
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    Dissertation
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    as P (xt|yt) = ∏ j P (xt,j|yt) . This assumption of independence of each input feature xt,j

  • New Directions in Search-based Structured Prediction: Multi-Task Learning and Integration of Deep Models

    Creator:
    Ma, Chao
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    This thesis studies the problem of structured prediction (SP), where the agent needs to predict a structured output for a given structured input (e.g., Part-of-Speech tagging sequence for an input sentence). Many important applications including machine translation in natural language processing (NLP) and image interpretation in computer vision can be...
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    Dissertation
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    of their occurrence in the document. Each output variable vij (i < j) corresponds to a coreferent

  • Bayesian optimization with empirical constraints

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    Azimi, Javad
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    Bayesian Optimization (BO) methods are often used to optimize an unknown function f(•) that is costly to evaluate. They typically work in an iterative manner. In each iteration, given a set of observation points, BO algorithms select k ≥ 1 points to be evaluated. The results of those points are...
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    captured by: J(Q) = E(x1,···,x|Q|) [ E(y1,···,y|Q|) [ max { y1, . . . , y|Q| } ∣∣∣D, (x1, · · ·, x|Q

  • Classifier Chains for Multi-Label Classification with Incomplete Labels

    Creator:
    Almuallim, Jafer
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    Many methods have been explored in the literature of multi-label learning, ranging from simple problem transformation to more complex method that capture correlation among labels. However, mostly all existing works do not address the challenge with incomplete label data. The goal of this project is to extend the work of...
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    Capstone Project
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    number of labels associated with an instance defined as followed: Lcard = 1 N ∑N i=1 ∑L j=1 ti 1http

  • Adversarial Attacks in Natural Language Question-Answering

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    Rahurkar, Prachi S.
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    Question Answering in natural language processing has achieved significant progress in recent years. Yet, training and testing set methodology to evaluate the language models has proved inadequate. Adversarial examples aid us in finding loopholes inside these models and provide insights into their inner workings. In this work, an evaluation based...
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    Masters Thesis
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    computer vision: A survey. IEEE Access, 6:14410–14430, 2018. [2] Anish Athalye, Logan Engstrom, Andrew

  • UCT for tactical assault battles in real-time strategy games

    Creator:
    Balla, Radha-Krishna
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    We consider the problem of tactical assault planning in real-time strategy games where a team of friendly agents must launch an assault on an enemy. This problem offers many challenges including a highly dynamic and uncertain environment, multiple agents, durative actions, numeric attributes, and different optimization objectives. While the dynamics...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Multi-instance multi-label learning : algorithms and applications to bird bioacoustics

    Creator:
    Briggs, Forrest
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    We consider the problem of supervised classification of bird species from audio recordings in a real-world acoustic monitoring scenario (i.e. audio data is collected in the field with an omnidirectional microphone, without human supervision). Obtaining better data about bird activity can assist conservation efforts, and improve our understanding of their...
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    Dissertation
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    recordings of birds using unattended omnidirectional microphones in the the H. J. Andrews Experimental (HJA