Combinational Machine Learning Creativity.

摘要: It is impossible for me to be fully satisfied with these acknowledgements. I have been blessed with incredible support from all possible corners: academic colleagues, industry partners, family, and friends. Let me begin with a blanket statement of thanks for this support, as I fear an exhaustive list would have to be a secondary document. First and most clearly this work would not have been possible without the support of my advisor. Mark has provided opportunities for my research work, support and feedback when I have needed it, and trust when I have not. In my fellow PhD students I have found community, friends, and academic colleagues that have pushed me to improve. I thank Boyang ‘Albert’Li for mentoring me through my first PhD research project and my internship at Disney Research. Alex Zook and Kristin Siu were both incredible guides and collaborators throughout the early years of my PhD, collaborating on both research projects and multiple whiteboards of Pokémon drawings. Brent Harrison and I started in the lab at the same time (though Brent was a post-doc), and I am immensely grateful to have spent three years researching with him. Lara Martin, Chris Purdy, and Upol Ehsan helped reinvigorate the lab and myself, creating valuable research community and becoming valued friends. It’s been a joy and an inspiration watching Zhiyu Lin and more recently Raj Ammanabrolu become excellent researchers, and I anticipate even greater future success for the both of them.I have had the honor of mentoring a rather large number of undergraduates. I greatly appreciate this opportunity and the ways that their work has supported and …