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publications
Deriving the Perimeter of Horizontally and Vertically Stretched Regular Shapes
Published in N/A, 2019
Developed a novel method to estimate the circumference of an ellipse and π by exactly calculating the perimeter of stretched regular polygons.
Hospital Event Reports
Published in N/A, 2022
Fine-tuned embeddings and BERT-style models for tasks such as text clustering, sentiment analysis, and named entity recognition on hospital reports.
Improving The Classification of FAST Ultrasound Exams
Published in N/A, 2023
Trained a multi-head attention vision architecture to improve performance on the classification of FAST ultrasound exams given limited training data.
Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review
Published in Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
This paper discusses the distillation of long-context, efficient attention BERT-based models to yield models that are smaller, faster, and cheaper to deploy.
Recommended citation: Brown, Nathan and Williamson, Ashton and Anderson, Tahj and Lawrence, Logan. (2023). "Efficient Transformer Knowledge Distillation: A Performance Review" Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.13657.pdf
Pula: Training Large Language Models for Setswana
Published in NAACL 2025, 2025
Developed in partnership with the DSFSI group at The University of Pretoria, this work introduces Pula, the first suite of LLMs built for Setswana; Marothodi, the largest Setswana pre-training corpus; and Medupi, the first extensive Setswana instruction-tuning dataset.
Recommended citation: Brown, Nathan and Marivate, Vukosi (2025). "Pula: Training Large Language Models for Setswana" NAACL 2025 https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.338/
talks
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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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