About Me

I am a PhD student at the Australian National University, under the supervision of Richard Nock, Ke Sun, and Lexing Xie. I am also a student trainee in Masashi Sugiyama’s Imperfect Information Learning Team at RIKEN AIP.

My research focus is on utilising boosting algorithms, information geometric tools, and the theory of loss functions with a focus on fairness and privacy in machine learning. In this research, I have co-created the pyBregMan open-source Python package with Frank Nielsen. Recently, I have been exploring topics involving generalization bounds and theory involving classification with rejection and importance weighting. Previously I have worked on topics including formal methods / theorem provers, visualisation in academic influence, knowledge graphs, universal approximation theorems, and point process models.

Publications


  1. Rejection via Learning Density Ratios
    • Alexander Soen
    • Hisham Husain
    • Philip Schulz
    • Vu Nguyen
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  2. Tempered Calculus for ML: Application to Hyperbolic Model Embedding
    • Richard Nock
    • Ehsan Amid
    • Frank Nielsen
    • Alexander Soen
    • Manfred K Warmuth
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  3. Tradeoffs of Diagonal Fisher Information Matrix Estimators
    • Alexander Soen
    • Ke Sun
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  4. Online Learning in Betting Markets: Profit versus Prediction
    • Haiqing Zhu
    • Alexander Soen
    • Yun Kuen Cheung
    • Lexing Xie
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
  5. 3D NLTE Lithium abundances for late-type stars in GALAH DR3
    • Ella Xi Wang
    • Thomas Nordlander
    • Sven Buder
    • Ioana Ciucă
    • Alexander Soen
    • Sarah Martell
    • Melissa Ness
    • Karin Lind
    • Madeleine McKenzie
    • Dennis Stello
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2024
  6. Fair Densities via Boosting the Sufficient Statistics of Exponential Families
    • Alexander Soen
    • Hisham Husain
    • Richard Nock
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023
  7. Fair Wrapping for Black-box Predictions
    • Alexander Soen
    • Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin
    • Sanmi Koyejo
    • Yishay Mansour
    • Nyalleng Moorosi
    • Richard Nock
    • Ke Sun
    • Lexing Xie
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2022
  8. Interval-censored Hawkes processes
    • Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
    • Alexander Soen
    • Shidi Li
    • Pio Calderon
    • Leanne Dong
    • Aditya Krishna Menon
    • Lexing Xie
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2022
  9. On the Variance of the Fisher Information for Deep Learning
    • Alexander Soen
    • Ke Sun
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021
  10. UNIPoint: Universally Approximating Point Processes Intensities
    • Alexander Soen
    • Alexander Mathews
    • Daniel Grixti-Cheng
    • Lexing Xie
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
  11. Influence flowers of academic entities
    • Minjeong Shin
    • Alexander Soen
    • Benjamin T Readshaw
    • Stephen M Blackburn
    • Mitchell Whitelaw
    • Lexing Xie
    IEEE conference on visual analytics science and technology (VAST), 2019

Preprints


  1. pyBregMan: A Python library for Bregman Manifolds
    • Frank Nielsen
    • Alexander Soen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.04175, 2024
  2. Sampled transformer for point sets
    • Shidi Li
    • Christian Walder
    • Alexander Soen
    • Lexing Xie
    • Miaomiao Liu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14346, 2023
  3. Linking Across Data Granularity: Fitting Multivariate Hawkes Processes to Partially Interval-Censored Data
    • Pio Calderon
    • Alexander Soen
    • Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02062, 2021