Elan Van Biljon

According to our database, Elan Van Biljon authored at least 8 papers between 2018 and 2020.

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2020

If dropout limits trainable depth, does critical initialisation still matter? A large-scale statistical analysis on ReLU networks.

Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Benjamin van Niekerk, Ryan Eloff, Matthew Reynard, Steven James, Benjamin Rosman, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon

Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages.

Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Tajudeen Kolawole, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo, Salomey Osei, Sackey Freshia, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa, Mofe Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Jane Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan Van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Emezue, Bonaventure Dossou, Blessing K. Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir

CoRR, 2020

On Optimal Transformer Depth for Low-Resource Language Translation.

Elan Van Biljon, Arnu Pretorius, Julia Kreutzer

Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

Masakhane - Machine Translation For Africa.

Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing K. Sibanda, Daniel Whitenack, Kathleen Siminyu, Laura Martinus, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Vukosi Marivate, Salomon Kabongo, Musie Meressa, Espoir Murhabazi, Orevaoghene Ahia, Elan Van Biljon, Arshath Ramkilowan, Adewale Akinfaderin, Alp Öktem, Wole Akin, Ghollah Kioko, Kevin Degila, Herman Kamper, Bonaventure Dossou, Chris Emezue, Kelechi Ogueji, Abdallah Bashir

Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020

A game-theoretic analysis of networked system control for common-pool resource management using multi-agent reinforcement learning.

Arnu Pretorius, Scott Alexander Cameron, Elan Van Biljon, Tom Makkink, Shahil Mawjee, Jeremy du Plessis, Jonathan P. Shock, Alexandre Laterre, Karim Beguir

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2020, 2020

Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages.

Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, Timi E. Fasubaa, Taiwo Fagbohungbe, Solomon Oluwole Akinola, Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Salomon Kabongo Kabenamualu, Salomey Osei, Freshia Sackey, Rubungo Andre Niyongabo, Ricky Macharm, Perez Ogayo, Orevaoghene Ahia, Musie Meressa Berhe, Mofetoluwa Adeyemi, Masabata Mokgesi-Selinga, Lawrence Okegbemi, Laura Martinus, Kolawole Tajudeen, Kevin Degila, Kelechi Ogueji, Kathleen Siminyu, Julia Kreutzer, Jason Webster, Jamiil Toure Ali, Jade Z. Abbott, Iroro Orife, Ignatius Ezeani, Idris Abdulkabir Dangana, Herman Kamper, Hady Elsahar, Goodness Duru, Ghollah Kioko, Espoir Murhabazi, Elan Van Biljon, Daniel Whitenack, Christopher Onyefuluchi, Chris Chinenye Emezue, Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Blessing K. Sibanda, Blessing Itoro Bassey, Ayodele Olabiyi, Arshath Ramkilowan, Alp Öktem, Adewale Akinfaderin, Abdallah Bashir

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

2019

Unsupervised Acoustic Unit Discovery for Speech Synthesis Using Discrete Latent-Variable Neural Networks.

Ryan Eloff, André Nortje, Benjamin van Niekerk, Avashna Govender, Leanne Nortje, Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Ewald van der Westhuizen, Lisa van Staden, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2019

2018

Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks.

Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Steve Kroon, Herman Kamper

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2018, 2018