Thesis defence

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Monday, August 24, 2020 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Towards Effective Utilization of Pretrained Language Models — Knowledge Distillation from BERT

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Linqing Liu, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jimmy Lin

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Algorithms and Complexity — Monotonicity Testing for Boolean Functions over Graph Products

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Zhengkun Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Eric Blais

We establish a directed analogue of Chung and Tetali’s isoperimetric inequality for graph products. We use this inequality to obtain new bounds on the query complexity for testing monotonicity of Boolean-valued functions over products of general posets.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning — Dialog Response Generation Using Adversarially Learned Latent Bag-of-Words

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Kashif Khan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Dialog response generation is the task of generating response utterance given a query utterance. Apart from generating relevant and coherent responses, one would like the dialog generation model to generate diverse and informative sentences.

Monday, August 24, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering — Personality Traits of GitHub Maintainers and Their Effects on Project Success

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Seonghu (Alex) Yun, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey