Selected Publications

For the full publication list, please refer to my Publications page and Google Scholar.

1. ACM MM’26

   Eulerian Motion Guidance: Robust Image Animation via Bidirectional Geometric Consistency

   Thong Nguyen, Khoi M. Le, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Anh Tuan Luu, See-Kiong Ng, Chunyan Miao

   In Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
2. EMNLP’26

   Don’t Read Everything: A Curvature-Conditioned Query for Linear Attention

   Dong Le, Thong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

   In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

   Best Paper Award
3. EMNLP’26

   When In-Distribution Gains Fail: Evaluating Weak-to-Strong Reward Models under Preference Shift

   Khoi Le, Tri Cao, Phong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan, Chunyan Miao, See-Kiong Ng, Thong Nguyen

   In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
4. SAC’26

   More Bias, Less Bias: BiasPrompting for Enhanced Multiple-Choice Question Answering

   Duc Anh Vu, Thong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Viet Anh Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

   In Proceedings of the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
5. AAAI’25

   Motion-aware Contrastive Learning for Temporal Panoptic Scene Graph Generation

   Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Yi Bin, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Anh Tuan Luu

   In Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
6. AAAI’25

   Multi-Scale Contrastive Learning for Video Temporal Grounding

   Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu, Zhiyuan Hu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Anh Tuan Luu

   In Proceedings of the 39th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
7. NAACL’25

   Enhancing Multimodal Entity Linking with Jaccard Distance-based Conditional Contrastive Learning and Contextual Visual Augmentation

   Cong-Duy Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen, Shuai Zhao, Khoi M. Le, Viet Anh Nguyen, Yichao Feng, Luu Anh Tuan

   In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
8. SAC’25

   Curriculum Demonstration Selection for In-Context Learning

   Duc Anh Vu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Nhat Hoang, Mingzhe Du, Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

   In Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
9. NeurIPS’24

   FASTopic: A Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Modeling Paradigm

   Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen, Delvin Ce Zhang, William Yang Wang, Anh Tuan Luu

   In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
10. EMNLP’24

    Encoding and Controlling Global Semantics for Long-form Video Question Answering

    Thong Nguyen, Zhiyuan Hu, Xiaobao Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
11. ECCV’24

    MAMA: A Meta-optimized Angular Margin Contrastive Framework for Video-Language Representation Learning

    Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Zhiyuan Hu, Khoi Le, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision
12. ACL’24

    Video-Language Understanding: A Survey from Model Architecture, Model Training, and Data Perspectives

    Thong Nguyen, Yi Bin, Junbin Xiao, Leigang Qu, Yicong Li, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of Findings of 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
13. NAACL’24

    KDMCSE: Knowledge distillation multimodal sentence embeddings with adaptive angular margin contrastive learning

    Cong-Duy Nguyen, Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
14. AAAI’24

    On the affinity, rationality, and diversity of hierarchical topic modeling

    Xiaobao Wu, Fengjun Pan, Thong Nguyen, Yichao Feng, Chaoqun Liu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
15. ICLR’24

    Topic Modeling as Multi-Objective Contrastive Optimization

    Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of International Conference on Learning Representations
16. ACL’24

    Modeling Dynamic Topics in Chain-Free Fashion by Evolution-Tracking Contrastive Learning and Unassociated Word Exclusion

    Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Liangming Pan, Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of Findings of 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
17. AAAI’24

    READ: Recurrent Adapter with Partial Video-Language Alignment for Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning in Low-Resource Video-Language Modeling

    Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Khoi Le, Zhiyuan Hu, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
18. ACM MM’23

    Expand BERT Representation with Visual Information via Grounded Language Learning with Multimodal Partial Alignment

    Cong-Duy Nguyen, The-Anh Vu-Le, Thong Nguyen, Tho Quan, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia
19. EMNLP’23

    Improving multimodal sentiment analysis: Supervised angular margin-based contrastive learning for enhanced fusion representation

    Cong-Duy Nguyen, Thong Nguyen, Duc Vu, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of Findings of 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
20. ICML’23

    Effective Neural Topic Modeling with Embedding Clustering Regularization

    Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning
21. EMNLP’23

    DemaFormer: Damped Exponential Moving Average Transformer with Energy-Based Modeling for Temporal Language Grounding

    Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Cong-Duy Nguyen, See-Kiong Ng, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of Findings of 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
22. AAAI’23

    InfoCTM: A Mutual Information Maximization Perspective of Cross-lingual Topic Modeling

    Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Thong Nguyen, Chaoqun Liu, Liangming Pan, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

    Oral Presentation
23. ACL’23

    Gradient-Boosted Decision Tree for Listwise Context Model in Multimodal Review Helpfulness Prediction

    Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Xinshuai Dong, Luu Anh Tuan, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Zhen Hai, Lidong Bing

    In Proceedings of Findings of 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
24. EMNLP’22

    Adaptive Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Transformer for Review Helpfulness Predictions

    Thong Nguyen, Xiaobao Wu, Luu Anh Tuan, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Zhen Hai, Lidong Bing

    In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
25. AAAI’22

    Improving Neural Cross-Lingual Abstractive Summarization via Employing Optimal Transport Distance for Knowledge Distillation

    Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
26. NeurIPS’21

    Contrastive Learning for Neural Topic Model

    Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
27. EMNLP’21

    Enriching and Controlling Global Semantics for Text Summarization

    Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan, Truc Lu, Tho Quan

    In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing