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I generally work at the intersection and union of maths, electrical/electronic engineering, and scientific/technical computing. My particular interest is automatic differentiation. I am a long-term contributor to the open-source JuliaLang ecosystem. I previously lead the research software engineering group at Invenia Labs.

I completed my PhD on natural language processing (NLP) via machine learning (ML) at the University of Western Australia in 2019; supervised by Prof Roberto Togneri, Dr Wei Liu and W/Prof Mohammed Bennamoun.

Note that up until 2022, I was publishing under the pen-name Lyndon White. A lot of things are still online under that name.

  • 2021: AbstractDifferentiation.jl: Backend-Agnostic Differentiable Programming in Julia, Frank Schäfer, Mohamed Tarek, Lyndon White, Chris Rackauckas.
    NeurIPS Differentiable Programming Workshop Best Poster Award
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  • 2020: WEmbSim: A Simple yet Effective Metric for Image Captioning, Naeha Sharif, Lyndon White, Mohammed Bennamoun, Wei Liu and Syed Afaq Ali Shah.
    The International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA) DSTG Best Contribution to Science Award
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  • 2020: WordTokenizers.jl: Basic tools for tokenizing natural language in Julia. , Ayush Kaushal, Lyndon White, Mike Innes, and Rohit Kumar.
    Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
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  • 2019: Meta-Optimization of Optimal Power Flow, Mahdi Jamei, Letif Mones, Alex Robson, Lyndon White, James Requeima, and Cozmin Ududec.
    36th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML): Climate Change Workshop
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  • 2019: LCEval: Learned Composite Metric for Caption Evaluation, Naeha Sharif, Lyndon White, Mohammed Bennamoun, Wei Liu and Syed Afaq Ali Shah.
    International Journal of Computer Vision
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  • 2019: On the surprising capacity of linear combinations of embeddings for natural language processing. [Thesis], Lyndon White.
    Doctorial Thesis, The University of Western Australia
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  • 2018: TensorFlow.jl: An Idiomatic Julia Front End for TensorFlow, Jonathan Malmaud and Lyndon White.
    Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
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  • 2018: DataDepsGenerators.jl: making reusing data easy by automatically generating DataDeps.jl registration code, Lyndon White, and Sebastin Santy.
    Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS)
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  • 2018: Neural Representations of Natural Language, Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun.
    Springer: Studies in Computational Intelligence (Book)
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  • 2018: NovelPerspective: Identifying Point of View Characters, Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun.
    56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), System Demonstrations
    [ pdf, bib, site, ]
  • 2018: NNEval: Neural Network based Evaluation Metric, Naeha Sharif, Lyndon White, Mohammed Bennamoun and Syed Afaq Ali Shah.
    15th European Conference on Computer Vision
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  • 2018: Learning-based Composite Metrics for Improved Caption Evaluation, Naeha Sharif, Lyndon White, Mohammed Bennamoun and Syed Afaq Ali Shah.
    Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Student Research Workshop
    [ pdf, bib, ]
  • 2018: Finding Word Sense Embeddings Of Known Meaning, Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun.
    Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing)
    [ pdf, bib, ]
  • 2016: Modelling Sentence Generation from Sum of Word Embedding Vectors as a Mixed Integer Programming Problem, Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun.
    IEEE International Conference on Data Mining: High Dimensional Data Mining Workshop (ICDM: HDM)
    [ pdf, bib, site, ]
  • 2016: Generating Bags of Words from the Sums of their Word Embeddings, Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun.
    Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing) Best Student Paper Award
    [ pdf, bib, site, ]
  • 2015: How Well Sentence Embeddings Capture Meaning, Lyndon White, Roberto Togneri, Wei Liu, and Mohammed Bennamoun.
    Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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  • 2015: Transistor Sizing Using Particle Swarm Optimisation, Lyndon White, Lyndon While, Ben Deeks, and Farid Boussaid.
    Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence
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  • 2015: PhD Research Proposal: Semantic Vector Representations of Sentences, Lyndon White.
    The University of Western Australia
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