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University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

2023-10-01 to present | PhD (Engineering Science)
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Michael Beukman

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: Johannesburg, ZA

2022-01-01 to 2023-06-12 | MSc (Computer Science) (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
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Michael Beukman

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: Johannesburg, ZA

2021-01-01 to 2021-12-31 | BSc Hons (Computer Science) (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
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Michael Beukman

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: Johannesburg, ZA

2018-01-01 to 2020-12-31 | BSc (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics) (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
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Michael Beukman

Works (8)

Hierarchically Composing Level Generators for the Creation of Complex Structures

IEEE Transactions on Games
2024 | Journal article
Contributors: Michael Beukman; Manuel Fokam; Marcel Kruger; Guy Axelrod; Muhammad Nasir; Branden Ingram; Benjamin Rosman; Steven James
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Second Life: Enabling a Student Special Interest Group through Decommissioned HPC Systems

2024-07-17 | Conference paper
Contributors: Michael Beukman; Sayfullah Jumoorty; Jonathan Luke Faller; Eugene de Beste; Bryan Johnston
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Augmentative Topology Agents For Open-Ended Learning

Companion Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, GECCO 2023, Companion Volume, Lisbon, Portugal, July 15-19, 2023
2023 | Conference paper
Contributors: Muhammad Umair Nasir and Michael Beukman and Steven James and Christopher W. Cleghorn; Sara Silva and Luís Paquete
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A Few Thousand Translations Go a Long Way! Leveraging Pre-trained Models for African News Translation

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2022, Seattle, WA, United States, July 10-15, 2022
2022 | Conference paper
Contributors: David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Jesujoba O. Alabi and Angela Fan and Julia Kreutzer and Xiaoyu Shen and Machel Reid and Dana Ruiter and Dietrich Klakow and Peter Nabende and Ernie Chang and Tajuddeen Gwadabe and Freshia Sackey and Bonaventure F. P. Dossou and Chris Emezue and Colin Leong and Michael Beukman and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Guyo Dub Jarso and Oreen Yousuf and Andre Niyongabo Rubungo and Gilles Hacheme and Eric Peter Wairagala and Muhammad Umair Nasir and Benjamin Ajibade and Tunde Ajayi and Yvonne Wambui Gitau and Jade Z. Abbott and Mohamed Ahmed and Millicent Ochieng and Aremu Anuoluwapo and Perez Ogayo and Jonathan Mukiibi and Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore and Godson Kalipe and Derguene Mbaye and Allahsera Auguste Tapo and Victoire Memdjokam Koagne and Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng and Valencia Wagner and Idris Abdulmumin and Ayodele Awokoya and Happy Buzaaba and Blessing K. Sibanda and Andiswa Bukula and Sam Manthalu; Marine Carpuat and Marie-Catherine de Marneffe and Iván Vladimir Meza Ruíz
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MasakhaNER 2.0: Africa-centric Transfer Learning for Named Entity Recognition

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 7-11, 2022
2022 | Conference paper
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.298

Contributors: David Ifeoluwa Adelani and Graham Neubig and Sebastian Ruder and Shruti Rijhwani and Michael Beukman and Chester Palen-Michel and Constantine Lignos and Jesujoba O. Alabi and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Peter Nabende and Cheikh M. Bamba Dione and Andiswa Bukula and Rooweither Mabuya and Bonaventure F. P. Dossou and Blessing K. Sibanda and Happy Buzaaba and Jonathan Mukiibi and Godson Kalipe and Derguene Mbaye and Amelia V. Taylor and Fatoumata Ouoba Kabore and Chris Chinenye Emezue and Aremu Anuoluwapo and Perez Ogayo and Catherine Gitau and Edwin Munkoh-Buabeng and Victoire Memdjokam Koagne and Allahsera Auguste Tapo and Tebogo Macucwa and Vukosi Marivate and Elvis Mboning and Tajuddeen Gwadabe and Tosin P. Adewumi and Orevaoghene Ahia and Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende and Neo L. Mokono and Ignatius Ezeani and Chiamaka Chukwuneke and Mofetoluwa Adeyemi and Gilles Hacheme and Idris Abdulmumin and Odunayo Ogundepo and Oreen Yousuf and Tatiana Moteu Ngoli and Dietrich Klakow; Yoav Goldberg and Zornitsa Kozareva and Yue Zhang
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Procedural content generation using neuroevolution and novelty search for diverse video game levels

GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9 - 13, 2022
2022 | Conference paper
Contributors: Michael Beukman and Christopher W. Cleghorn and Steven James; Jonathan E. Fieldsend and Markus Wagner
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Separating Grains from the Chaff: Using Data Filtering to Improve Multilingual Translation for Low-Resourced African Languages

Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2022, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid), December 7-8, 2022
2022 | Conference paper
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.98

Contributors: Idris Abdulmumin and Michael Beukman and Jesujoba O. Alabi and Chris Chinenye Emezue and Everlyn Chimoto and Tosin P. Adewumi and Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad and Mofetoluwa Adeyemi and Oreen Yousuf and Sahib Singh and Tajuddeen Gwadabe; Philipp Koehn and Loïc Barrault and Ondrej Bojar and Fethi Bougares and Rajen Chatterjee and Marta R. Costa-jussà and Christian Federmann and Mark Fishel and Alexander Fraser and Markus Freitag and Yvette Graham and Roman Grundkiewicz and Paco Guzman and Barry Haddow and Matthias Huck and Antonio Jimeno-Yepes and Tom Kocmi and André Martins and Makoto Morishita and Christof Monz and Masaaki Nagata and Toshiaki Nakazawa and Matteo Negri and Aurélie Névéol and Mariana Neves and Martin Popel and Marco Turchi and Marcos Zampieri
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Adaptive Online Value Function Approximation with Wavelets

Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making
2022-06 | Conference abstract
Contributors: Michael Beukman and Michael Mitchley and Dean S. Wookey and Steven James and George Konidaris
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