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Algorithms for the Personalization of AI for Robots and the Smart Home

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Just as an interconnected-computerized world has produced large amounts of data resulting in exciting challenges for machine learning, connected households with robots and smart devices ...
Copyright Date:
2018
Contributors:
Brawner, Stephen Andrew (creator) Charniak, Eugene (Reader) Littman, Michael L. (Advisor) Cakmak, Maya (Reader) Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Artificial intelligence Robotics
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Alto.Glove: Instrument and Augmentation

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This thesis discusses the design of a sensor-embedded data glove called alto.glove, created by the author and used in interactive performances involving string instrument ...
Copyright Date:
2018
Contributors:
Thorn, Seth Dominicus (creator) Rovan, Joseph Butch (Advisor) Winkler, Todd (Reader) Evens, Aden (Reader) Brown University. Department of Music (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Music Signal processing--Digital techniques physical computing Arduino (Programmable controller) max msp max for live musical expression Violin Viola Critique of Reason Resistance Gaming Theory Proceduralism Style Musical Gesture Data Gloves Hyperinstrument Poetics of Gesture
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Decoding hindlimb kinematics from primate motor cortex using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks

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Recent machine learning techniques have become a powerful tool in a variety of tasks, including neural decoding. Artificial neural network models, particularly recurrent models, can ...
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2018
Contributors:
Wang, Yinong (creator) Borton, David (Advisor) Truccolo, Wilson (Advisor) Silverman, Harvey (Reader) Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Biomedical Engineering (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Brain-Computer Interface Neuroengineering
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Methods and Theories in Atomistic Reaction Engineering

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Electronic-structure calculations have provided us with in-depth understanding of chemical and physical phenomena in atomic and molecular scales. In particular, density functional theory has been ...
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2018
Contributors:
Khorshidi, Alireza (creator) Peterson, Andrew A. (Advisor) Guduru, Pradeep R. (Reader) Rubenstein, Brenda M. (Reader) Brown University. School of Engineering (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Density Functional Theory Heterogeneous catalysis Strains and stresses Chemical reactions
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Methods for Identifying Allele-Specific Splicing Aberrations Associated With Human Hereditary Disease

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In eukaryotes, DNA is first transcribed into precursor-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) which is then followed by extensive RNA processing events. One such event is RNA splicing ...
Copyright Date:
2018
Contributors:
Cygan, Kamil Jan (creator) Fairbrother, William (Advisor) Weinreich, Daniel (Reader) Neretti, Nicola (Reader) Helfand, Stephen (Reader) Sanford, Jeremy (Reader) Brown University. Division of Biology and Medicine (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Population genetics Computational biology RNA splicing Mutation (Biology) Variants aberrations Genetic disorders
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Multi-Fidelity Simulation Algorithm and its Application to Flow over a Cylinder

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We tackle the classical problem of predicting the relation between of C_L , C_D and C_P vs Reynolds number for flow over cylinder using the multi-fidelity ...
Copyright Date:
2017
Contributors:
Patil, Prerna (creator) Karniadakis, George (Advisor) Brown University. School of Engineering (sponsor)
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Keywords:
Machine Learning Computational fluid dynamics
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Multiscale and Mesoscopic Modeling of Soft Matter and Biophysical Systems Using High Performance Computing and Machine Learning

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This dissertation is composed around the subject of multiscale modeling of soft matter and biophysical systems with applications using large-scale computations. Specifically, it is expanded ...
Copyright Date:
2017
Contributors:
Tang, Yu-Hang (creator) Karniadakis, George (Advisor) Maxey, Martin (Reader) Baker, Nathan (Reader) Brown University. Department of Applied Mathematics (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Polymers Biophysics Scientific Computation High performance computing Polymeric drug delivery systems Soft Matter Molecular dynamics--Computer simulation Graphics Processing Units (GPU) Force Field Computer simulation Multiscale modeling Parallel programming
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Probabilistic Scene Grammars: A General-Purpose Framework For Scene Understanding

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We propose a general-purpose probabilistic framework for scene understanding tasks. We show that several classical scene understanding tasks can be modeled and addressed under a ...
Copyright Date:
2017
Contributors:
Chua, Jeroen (creator) Felzenszwalb, Pedro (Advisor) Geman, Stuart (Reader) Sudderth, Erik (Reader) Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
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Keywords:
Machine Learning Computer Vision
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Scalable Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Networks and Documents

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We develop Bayesian nonparametric statistical models of document collections and social networks. Extending classic parametric topic models of documents, and stochastic block models of networks ...
Copyright Date:
2016
Contributors:
Kim, Daeil (creator) Sudderth, Erik B (Advisor) Charniak, Eugene (Reader) Blei, David M (Reader) Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
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Keywords:
Bayesian Nonparametrics Variational Inference Machine Learning
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Semantic Three-Dimensional Understanding of Dynamic Scenes

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We develop new representations and algorithms for three-dimensional (3D) scene understanding from images and videos. To model cluttered indoor scenes, we introduce object descriptors that ...
Copyright Date:
2018
Contributors:
Ren, Zhile (creator) Sudderth, Erik (Advisor) Felzenszwalb, Pedro (Reader) Tompkin, James (Reader) Brown University. Department of Computer Science (sponsor)
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Keywords:
Machine Learning Computer Vision Object Detection Scene Understanding Motion Estimation
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Statistical Learning Tools for Information Fusion in Computational Fluid Dynamics

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For more than a decade, remarkable scientific progress in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been achieved via powerful collection of tools for exascale simulations, data-driven ...
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2017
Contributors:
Lee, Seungjoon (creator) Karniadakis, George (Advisor) Kevrekidis, Ioannis (Advisor) Maxey, Martin (Reader) Perdikaris, Paris (Reader) Brown University. Department of Applied Mathematics (sponsor)
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Machine Learning Domain Decomposition methods Computational fluid dynamics Gappy data Exascale simulation
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Theory and Computation for Modern Probabilistic Models

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Modern probabilistic models involve computation and analysis in very high-dimensional spaces. Here we explore several of ways in which analysis of problems high dimensional spaces ...
Copyright Date:
2017
Contributors:
Loper, Jackson Hoy (creator) Geman, Stuart (Advisor) Ramanan, Kavita (Reader) Harrison, Matthew (Reader) Brown University. Department of Applied Mathematics (sponsor)
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theses
Keywords:
Machine Learning Poisson processes Biometry Brownian motion processes
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