Master's Thesis Repository – Teiboklang Chyne (Roll No. 234156019, IIT Guwahati)

This repository contains all materials related to my Master's Thesis titled "Generative Artificial Intelligence and Optimisation Framework for Sustainable Concrete Mixture Design", including the thesis report, presentations, research papers, dataset, and associated code files used for experiments and analysis.

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📄 Documents

• Thesis Report 234156019_Teiboklang_Chyne_MTP_THESIS_Report.pdf Final report of the Master's Thesis submitted to the department.

• Thesis Presentation 234156019_Teiboklang_Chyne_THESIS_Presentation.pptx Slide deck presented as part of the thesis defense.

• Paper Submitted to RILEM Youth Symposium 2025 Rilem-Youth-Symposium-2025-Paper.docx

• Paper Submitted to I-4AM’26 iAM26-Paper.pdf

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📊 Dataset

• Original Dataset Used Wiley.csv The primary dataset used for training and evaluation in the thesis.

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🧠 CatBoost + Firefly Optimization

• Firefly Optimization Implementation firefly_optimization.ipynb Optimizes CatBoost hyperparameters using the Firefly Algorithm.

• Distance Metric Comparison for Firefly firefly_distance_metric_optimization.ipynb Analyzes the impact of various distance metrics on Firefly optimization.

• Analysis of Firefly-Optimized CatBoost firefly_analysis.ipynb Evaluation and visualization of the optimized CatBoost model.

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🤖 Conditional Variational Autoencoders (CVAE)

• CVAE Architecture Definition vae_definition.ipynb Implements the structure of the CVAE used in the experiments.

• Mix Design Optimization vae_optimization.ipynb Hyperparameter tuning and model selection for CVAEs. Mixture Design Optimization using selected CVAE.

• Comparison Using Learning Curves vae_comparison_learning_curve.ipynb Comparative analysis of CVAE variants based on learning behavior.

• Comparison Using Loss Functions vae_comparison_on_losses.ipynb Performance comparison of different CVAE architectures using loss metrics.

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📝 Citation

If you use any part of this work, please cite appropriately. You may refer to the papers submitted to RILEM Youth Symposium 2025 and I-4AM’26 listed above.