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Exact Models, Heuristics, And Supervised Learning Approaches For Vehicle Routing Problems, Zefeng Lyu
Exact Models, Heuristics, And Supervised Learning Approaches For Vehicle Routing Problems, Zefeng Lyu
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation presents contributions to the field of vehicle routing problems by utilizing exact methods, heuristic approaches, and the integration of machine learning with traditional algorithms. The research is organized into three main chapters, each dedicated to a specific routing problem and a unique methodology. The first chapter addresses the Pickup and Delivery Problem with Transshipments and Time Windows, a variant that permits product transfers between vehicles to enhance logistics flexibility and reduce costs. To solve this problem, we propose an efficient mixed-integer linear programming model that has been shown to outperform existing ones. The second chapter discusses a practical …
Towards Robust Long-Form Text Generation Systems, Kalpesh Krishna
Towards Robust Long-Form Text Generation Systems, Kalpesh Krishna
Doctoral Dissertations
Text generation is an important emerging AI technology that has seen significant research advances in recent years. Due to its closeness to how humans communicate, mastering text generation technology can unlock several important applications such as intelligent chat-bots, creative writing assistance, or newer applications like task-agnostic few-shot learning. Most recently, the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs) has resulted in systems like ChatGPT, capable of generating fluent, coherent and human-like text. However, despite their remarkable capabilities, LLMs still suffer from several limitations, particularly when generating long-form text. In particular, (1) long-form generated text is filled with factual inconsistencies to …
Quantifying And Enhancing The Security Of Federated Learning, Virat Vishnu Shejwalkar
Quantifying And Enhancing The Security Of Federated Learning, Virat Vishnu Shejwalkar
Doctoral Dissertations
Federated learning is an emerging distributed learning paradigm that allows multiple users to collaboratively train a joint machine learning model without having to share their private data with any third party. Due to many of its attractive properties, federated learning has received significant attention from academia as well as industry and now powers major applications, e.g., Google's Gboard and Assistant, Apple's Siri, Owkin's health diagnostics, etc. However, federated learning is yet to see widespread adoption due to a number of challenges. One such challenge is its susceptibility to poisoning by malicious users who aim to manipulate the joint machine learning …