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Wang, Ke Alexander Wilson, Andrew G Kleinberg, Robert D 2020-08-10T20:07:33Z 2020-08-10T20:07:33Z 2020-05 ProQuest Submission ID: 10901 ProQuest Publication ID: 27993748 https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70285 https://doi.org/10.7298/gf31-q335 13254432 85 pages Intelligent systems that interact with the physical world must be able to model the underlying dynamics accurately to be able to make informed actions and decisions. This requires accurate dynamics models that are scalable enough to learn from large amounts of data, robust enough to be used in the presence of noisy data or scarce data, and flexible enough to capture the true dynamics of arbitrary systems. Gaussian processes and neural networks each have desirable properties that make them potential models for this task, but they do not meet all of the above criteria -- Gaussians processes do not scale well computationally to large datasets, and current neural networks do not generalize well to complex physical systems. In this thesis, we present two methods that help address these shortcomings. First, we present a practical method to scale exact inference with Gaussian processes to over a million data points using GPU parallelism, a hundred times more than previous methods. In addition, our method outperforms other scalable Gaussian processes while maintaining similar or faster training times. We then present a method to lower the burden of learning physical systems for neural networks by representing constraints explicitly and using coordinate systems that simplify the functions that must be learned. Our method results in models that are a hundred times more accurate than competing baselines while maintaining a hundred times higher data efficiency. en Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ exact inference Gaussian process hamiltonian lagrangian neural networks physics priors Large Scale Exact Gaussian Processes Inference and Euclidean Constrained Neural Networks with Physics Priors dissertation or thesis https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/13254432 application/pdf Computer Science Cornell University Master of Science M.S., Computer Science https://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810 Publication Cornell Theses and Dissertations Wang, Ke Alexander 5893a6ea-7af3-41d7-abc6-04bcd26ab5df open.access open.access <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="05326b66-8b35-4415-9f00-134137ff4bc3"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>en</Language> <Title>Large Scale Exact Gaussian Processes Inference and Euclidean Constrained Neural Networks with Physics Priors</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2020-05</PublicationDate> <DOI>https://doi.org/10.7298/gf31-q335</DOI> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Wang, Ke Alexander</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</License> <Keyword>exact inference</Keyword> <Keyword>Gaussian process</Keyword> <Keyword>hamiltonian</Keyword> <Keyword>lagrangian</Keyword> <Keyword>neural networks</Keyword> <Keyword>physics priors</Keyword> <Abstract>Intelligent systems that interact with the physical world must be able to model the underlying dynamics accurately to be able to make informed actions and decisions. This requires accurate dynamics models that are scalable enough to learn from large amounts of data, robust enough to be used in the presence of noisy data or scarce data, and flexible enough to capture the true dynamics of arbitrary systems. Gaussian processes and neural networks each have desirable properties that make them potential models for this task, but they do not meet all of the above criteria -- Gaussians processes do not scale well computationally to large datasets, and current neural networks do not generalize well to complex physical systems. In this thesis, we present two methods that help address these shortcomings. First, we present a practical method to scale exact inference with Gaussian processes to over a million data points using GPU parallelism, a hundred times more than previous methods. In addition, our method outperforms other scalable Gaussian processes while maintaining similar or faster training times. We then present a method to lower the burden of learning physical systems for neural networks by representing constraints explicitly and using coordinate systems that simplify the functions that must be learned. Our method results in models that are a hundred times more accurate than competing baselines while maintaining a hundred times higher data efficiency.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>