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portfolio
Bayesian optimization package
Sample a Gaussian process that is actively learned.
publications
A comparison of neural network training methods for text classification
Published in arXiv, 2013
Benchmark of stochastic gradient descent and Nesterov’s accelerated gradient for text classification.
Recommended citation: Anderson de Andrade. (2013). "A comparison of neural network training methods for text classification." arXiv:1910.12674.
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Best practices for convolutional neural networks applied to object recognition in images
Published in arXiv, 2014
Evaluate the performance impact of optimization algorithms, activation functions, dropout, and maxout networks, in CNNs.
Recommended citation: Anderson de Andrade. (2014). "Best practices for convolutional neural networks applied to object recognition in images." arXiv:1910.13029.
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Exploring multilingual syntactic sentence representations
Published in EMNLP Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text, 2019
Sentence embeddings augmented by universal parts-of-speech tags evaluated on low-resource languages.
Recommended citation: Chen Liu, Anderson de Andrade, & Muhammad Osama. (2019). "Exploring multilingual syntactic sentence representations." EMNLP Workshop on Noisy User-Generated Text.
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Graph representation learning network via adaptive sampling
Published in arXiv, 2020
Graph representations using a learnable attention mechanism to sample the neighbourhood of a graph.
Recommended citation: Anderson de Andrade, & Chen Liu. (2020). "Graph representation learning network via adaptive sampling." arXiv:2006.04637.
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An architecture for accelerated large-scale inference of transformer-based language models
Published in NAACL Conference on Human Language Technologies: Industry Papers, 2021
Unified batch and online transformer inference.
Recommended citation: Amir Ganiev, Colt Chapin, Anderson de Andrade, & Chen Liu. (2021). "An architecture for accelerated large-scale inference of transformer-based language models." NAACL Conference on Human Language Technologies: Industry Papers.
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Conditional and residual methods in scalable coding for humans and machines
Published in ICME Workshop on Coding for Machines, 2023
A comparison between conditional and residual entropy codecs for a two-channel systems of tasks with nested information.
Recommended citation: Anderson de Andrade, Alon Harell, & Ivan Bajić. (2023). "Conditional and residual methods in scalable coding for humans and machines." ICME Workshop on Coding for Machines.
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Towards task-compatible compressible representations
Published in ICME Workshop on Coding for Machines, 2024
Task reconstruction loss acts as a regularizer, increasing rate-distortion performance in coding for humans and machines.
Recommended citation: Anderson de Andrade, & Ivan Bajić. (2024). "Towards task-compatible compressible representations. ICME Workshop on Coding for Machines." ICME Workshop on Coding for Machines.
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Rate-distortion theory in coding for machines and its applications
Published in IEEE TPAMI, 2025
Theoretical considerations and evaluation of split and distillation points.
Recommended citation: Alon Harell, Yalda Foroutan, Nilesh A. Ahuja, Parual Datta, Bhavya Kanzariya, V. Srinivasa Somayazulu, Omesh Tickoo, Anderson de Andrade, & Ivan V. Bajic. (2025). "Rate-distortion theory in coding for machines and its applications." IEEE TPAMI.
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talks
Towards task-compatible compressible representations
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A machine learning research toolkit
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A six hour tutorial describing a toolkit for machine learning research. We go over many of the details of our suggested tools for development, deployment, and artifact management. We make emphasis on best practices and our philosophy.
teaching
Teaching assistant: Introduction to engineering analysis (ENSC 180)
Undergraduate course, Simon Fraser University, School of Engineering Science, 2025
Ran lab sessions, graded exams and assignments, held office hours, and assisted students with MATLAB programming and engineering concepts.