Cody Blakeney

Visting Researcher Facebook | CS PhD Student @ Texas State University | Machine Learning, Model Compression, Computer Vision

CMAL 303

601 University Drive

San Marcos, Texas 78666

I am a PhD student at Texas State University. I am currently a Visiting Researcher at Facebook working on efficiency of large scale recommendation systems.

When I’m not writing, coding, or teaching I’m probably googling obscure sports statsitics or building monte carlo simulations to win my fantasy football league.

Research Interests: Deep Learning, Computer Vision, AI Fairness, Pruning, Knowledge Distillation

news

May 10, 2021 Fist day at Facebook!
Apr 16, 2021 I was named Outstanding Doctoral Student 2020-2021 for the College of Science and Engineering! :sparkles: :smile:

selected publications

  1. Simon Says: Evaluating and Mitigating Bias in Pruned Neural Networks with Knowledge Distillation
    Blakeney, Cody, Huish, Nathaniel, Yan, Yan, and Zong, Ziliang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.07849 2021
  2. Parallel blockwise knowledge distillation for deep neural network compression
    Blakeney, Cody, Li, Xiaomin, Yan, Yan, and Zong, Ziliang
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2020
  3. Is pruning compression?: Investigating pruning via network layer similarity
    Blakeney, Cody, Yan, Yan, and Zong, Ziliang
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2020