Hua Chang Bakker | University of Amsterdam

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.

Research Interests

Machine Learning: Representation Learning, Foundation Models
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News

[Jul. 2025] First version of my personal website is now online.

Publications

RecSys

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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ICML

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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