Ruan van der Merwe

Co-Founder | Cat Whisperer

I am co-founder and a technical lead at ByteFuse.

Along with this, I am also an active researcher in the fields of meta-learning, continual learning, and multimodal models.

selected publications

  1. Manifold Characteristics That Predict Downstream Task Performance
    Merwe, Ruan Henry Van, Newman, Gregory, and Barnard, Etienne
    In First Workshop on Pre-training: Perspectives, Pitfalls, and Paths Forward at ICML 2022 2022
  2. Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting for Few-Shot Spoken Word Classification Through Meta-Learning
    Merwe, Ruan, and Kamper, Herman
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.13080 2023