Hua Chang Bakker

About Me

I am currently a graduate student in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam, where I also completed my bachelor degrees in Artificial Intelligence (cum laude) and Information Science. My interests include (but are not limited to) geometry, representation learning and foundation models.

News

[Aug. 2025] Paper on ‘Keep your distance: learning dispersed embeddings on \(\mathbb{S}_m\)’ accepted at TMLR!
[Feb. 2025] arXiv preprint on ‘Keep your distance: learning dispersed embeddings on \(\mathbb{S}_m\)’ is now available here.

Publications

Keep your distance: learning dispersed embeddings on \(\mathbb{S}_m\)

Evgeniia Tokarchuk, Hua Chang Bakker, Vlad Niculae

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025

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A Simpler Alternative to Variational Regularized Counterfactual Risk Minimization

Hua Chang Bakker, Shashank Gupta, Harrie Oosterhuis

CONSEQUENCES workshop @ ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys), 2024

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On the Matter of Embeddings Dispersion on Hyperspheres

Evgeniia Tokarchuk, Hua Chang Bakker, Vlad Niculae

GRaM workshop @ International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024

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