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Chrisantha Fernando

Chrisantha Fernando has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2023; often with Dylan Banarse, Alexander Pritzel, Charles Blundell.

2 papers in our library · 2017–2023

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 23 · 77 works · 3,832 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 2,625 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3047

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 Affiliations

🎓University of SussexBrighton · United Kingdom2003–2013 · 23 papers🎓Queen Mary University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2012–2019 · 22 papers🏢Google DeepMindLondon · United Kingdom2016–2024 · 11 papers🏛️Medical Research CouncilLondon · United Kingdom2008–2013 · 9 papers🔬Collegium BudapestBudapest · Hungary2005–2011 · 9 papers🎓University of BirminghamBirmingham · United Kingdom2007–2008 · 8 papers🎓University of LondonLondon · United Kingdom2012–2014 · 6 papers🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2017–2019 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 1 workLanguage and Linguistics · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20231 paper

2010s

20171 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural Networks (2017 · 667 citations)
    The paper asks how one very large neural network could learn many tasks one after another. The goal is to reuse earlier knowledge without overwriting it, which is known as catastrophic forgetting. The authors propose PathNet, a modular network of several layers, each with many small modules. A population of…
  2. Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt Evolution (2023 · 174 citations)
    Hand-written prompting strategies like Chain-of-Thought help LLMs reason, but they are generic and seldom the best choice for a particular task.

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. PathNet: Evolution Channels Gradient Descent in Super Neural NetworksarXiv:1701.08734Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Charles Blundell, et al.2017 · 667 citations
  2. Population Based Training of Neural Networks ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetMax Jaderberg et al.2017 · 310 citations
  3. Hierarchical Representations for Efficient Architecture Search ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetLiu, Hanxiao et al.2017 · 298 citations
  4. Promptbreeder: Self-Referential Self-Improvement Via Prompt EvolutionarXiv:2309.16797Chrisantha Fernando, Dylan Banarse, Henryk Michalewski, et al.2023 · 174 citations

 Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 2,625 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 611 citing papers with a page here →.

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