Elan Van Biljon

Researcher, Discovery, ByteFuse

Joined

July 2019

Names

Elan Van Biljon

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Discovery, ByteFuse (bytefuse.ai)

2024 – Present

MS student

Computer Science, Stellenbosch University (sun.ac.za)

2018 – 2021

Undergrad student

Engineering, Stellenbosch University (sun.ac.za)

2014 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rodney Stephen Kroon

2018 – 2021

Coauthor

Arnu Pretorius

2018 – 2021

Coauthor

Herman Kamper

2018 – 2021

Expertise

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Actor-Critic Methods

Distributed Reinforcement Learning

2020 – 2021

Signal Propagation

Neural Network

theory

2018 – 2021

Reinforcement learning

action-value functions

2016 – 2017

Publications

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
- Readers: Everyone
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 et al. (5 additional authors not shown)
- AfricaNLP 2020
- Readers: Everyone
On Optimal Transformer Depth for Low-Resource Language Translation
Elan Van Biljon, Arnu Pretorius, Julia Kreutzer
- AfricaNLP 2020
- Readers: Everyone
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 et al. (28 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 15 Jan 2026)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
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 et al. (27 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 04 Nov 2022)
- EMNLP (Findings) 2020
- Readers: Everyone
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
- 2020 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
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
- 2020 (modified: 24 Apr 2023)
- NeurIPS 2020
- Readers: Everyone
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
- INTERSPEECH 2019
- Readers: Everyone
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
- CoRR 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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