2026

Regularization in Neural Networks: A Survey and Empirical Analysis of Approaches

Christiaan P. Opperman, Anna S. Bosman, Katherine M. Malan | IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence | 2026 | DOI

Lightweight deep learning model for real-time acoustic bird pest detection on edge microcontrollers

Micheline Kazeneza, Anna Sergeevna Bosman, Destiny Kwabla Amenyedzi, Pacifique Niyongabire, Emmanuel Ndashimye, Damien Hanyurwimfura, Anthony Vodacek | PeerJ Computer Science | 2026 | DOI

Prospecting MeerKAT Continuum Data for Enigmatic Radio Sources with Unsupervised Vector-Quantised Variational Autoencoders

Ventura, Fernando L., Kshitij Thorat, Anna Bosman, Roger Deane, and Christopher Cleghorn | RAS Techniques and Instruments | 2026 | DOI

2025

Restoring neural network plasticity for faster transfer learning

Coetzer, Xander, Arné Schreuder, and Anna Sergeevna Bosman | In Proceedings of the Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research | 2025 | DOI

Early detection of Phytophthora root rot in Eucalyptus using hyperspectral reflectance and machine learning

Hendrik J Esterhuizen, Bernard Slippers, Anna S Bosman, Jolanda Roux, Wayne Jones, Tanay Bose, Almuth Hammerbacher | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 2025 | DOI

Visualising Adam Oscillations in Neural Network Loss Landscapes

Henri van der Grijp, Anna S Bosman, Katherine M Malan | Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion | 2025 | DOI

Balancing Complexity and Performance of Machine Learning Models for Avian Pests Sound Detection in Agricultural Environments

M. Kazeneza, A.S. Bosman, D.K. Amenyedzi, D. Hanyurwimfura, E. Ndashimye and A. Vodacek | IEEE Access | 2025 | DOI

Training feedforward neural networks with Bayesian hyper-heuristics

A.N. Schreuder, A.S. Bosman, A.P. Engelbrecht, C.W. Cleghorn | Information Sciences | 2025 | DOI

2024

Denoising diffusion post-processing for low-light image enhancement

Savvas Panagiotou, Anna S Bosman | Pattern Recognition | 2024 | DOI

Regularised feed forward neural networks for streamed data classification problems

Mathys Ellis, Anna S Bosman, Andries P Engelbrecht | Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence | 2024 | DOI

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Recurrent Neural Networks

Reinhard Booysen, Anna Sergeevna Bosman | Neural Processing Letters | 2024 | DOI

Hilbert Curves for Efficient Exploratory Landscape Analysis Neighbourhood Sampling

Johannes J Pienaar, Anna S Bosman, Katherine M Malan | Proceedings of the International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar) | 2024 | DOI

2023

Quantifying and Visualizing the Sharpness of Attraction Basins in Neural Network Error Landscapes

Isobel Bosman, Anna Sergeevna Bosman, Katherine Mary Malan | Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation | 2023 | DOI

Empirical Loss Landscape Analysis of Neural Network Activation Functions

Anna Sergeevna Bosman, Andries Engelbrecht, Marde Helbig | Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation | 2023 | DOI

Comparison of Adversarial and Non-Adversarial LSTM Music Generative Models

Moseli Motsoehli, Anna Sergeevna Bosman, Johan Pieter De Villiers | Science and Information Conference | 2023 | DOI

Automatic Distance-Based Interpolating Unit Detection and Pruning in Self-Organizing Maps

Willem S. Van Heerden | Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Mexico City, Mexico | 2023 | DOI