Publications

2026

1. 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
2. Tracking the Truth: Object-Centric Spatio-Temporal Monitoring for Video Large Language Models

   Tri Cao, Khoi Le, Thong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Quynh Vo, Anh Tuan Luu, Chunyan Miao, See-Kiong Ng, Shuicheng Yan, Bryan Hooi
3. WARD: Adversarially Robust Defense of Web Agents Against Prompt Injections

   Tri Cao, Yulin Chen, Hieu Cao, Yibo Li, Khoi Le, Thong Nguyen, Yuexin Li, Yufei He, Yue Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Bryan Hooi
4. Don’t Read Everything: A Curvature-Conditioned Query for Linear Attention

   Dong Le, Thong Nguyen, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan
5. WINDQuant: Weight-Informed Neural Decision-Making for Global Mixed-Precision LLM Quantization

   Phong Nam Huu Nguyen, Khoi M. Le, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan, Thong Nguyen, Tho Quan
6. 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
7. 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 (SAC 2026)

2025

1. 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 (AAAI 2025)
2. 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 (AAAI 2025)
3. 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 (NAACL 2025)
4. 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 (SAC 2025)

2024

1. 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 (NeurIPS 2024)
2. 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 (EMNLP 2024)
3. 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 (ECCV 2024)
4. 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 (ACL 2024 Findings)
5. 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 (NAACL 2024)
6. 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 (AAAI 2024)
7. 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 (ICLR 2024)
8. 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 (ACL 2024 Findings)
9. 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 (AAAI 2024)

2023

1. 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 (ACMMM 2023)
2. 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 (EMNLP 2023 Findings)
3. 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 (ICML 2023)
4. 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 (EMNLP 2023 Findings)
5. 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 (AAAI 2023)
6. 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 (ACL 2023 Findings)

2022

1. 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 (EMNLP 2022)
2. 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 (AAAI 2022)

2021

1. Contrastive Learning for Neural Topic Model

   Thong Nguyen, Luu Anh Tuan

   In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
2. 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 (EMNLP 2021)