I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Ohio State University, supervised by Prof. Wei-Lun Chao. I am generally interested in machine learning and computer vision for open-world machine learning with imperfect data.
I obtained my bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at University of Information Technology, Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City in late 2020. From 2022 to 2024, I was a research assistant at VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC), College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUni, and AI research resident at FPT Software AI Residency program, mentored by Prof Dung D. Le (VinUniversity). More detailed can be found in my CV (updated December 2024).
My contact email: nguyen_dot_2959_at_osu_dot_edu
My research interests include meta-learning, domain adaptation, and black-box optimization for lifelong and open-world machine learning, especially in computer vision. My research goal is to develop machine learning algorithms that continuously learn with minimal data or supervision and effectively adapt to other domains outside the training data.
I am also interested in exploring the connection between optimization and machine learning for effective and generalizable learning algorithms.
Details of my research interests are discussed here.
Improving Pareto Set Learning for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization via Stein Variational Hypernetworks
Minh-Duc Nguyen, Phuong Mai Dinh, Quang-Huy Nguyen, Long P. Hoang, Dung D. Le
AAAI, 2025
Our work explores Expensive Multi-Objective Optimization by introducing the Stein Variational Hypernetwork for Pareto Set Learning to overcome fragmented and uncertain regions in surrogate models while still maintain the diversity of the learned solutions, offering promising results for expensive multi-objective optimization problems.
Zero-Shot Object-Level Out-of-Distribution Detection with Context-Aware Inpainting
Quang-Huy Nguyen*, Jin Zhou*, Zhenzhen Liu, Huyen Bui, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Dung D. Le
Under review, 2024
Our paper tackles Object-level OOD Detection without access to the training data, considering object detector as a black-box function. We leverages off-the-shelf Diffusion model to replace detected object with in-context inpainting, drawing the input object closer to the in-distribution (ID) domain. Hence, we are able to recognize OOD objects that are erroneously predicted by the object detection model without any re-training effort.
Controllable Expensive Multi-objective Learning with Warm-starting Bayesian Optimization
Quang-Huy Nguyen*, Long P. Hoang*, Hoang V. Vu, Dung D. Le
Under review, 2024
Our work explores Multi-objective Black-box Optimization with Pareto Front Learning, aligning trade-off preferences with corresponding optimal solutions between conflicting objectives. As existing methods often suffer from unstable and inefficient performance when optimizing based on Gaussian Processes, we then tackle this by leveraging warm-starting Bayesian Optimization to adequately obtain a good approximation of the front first and re-initialize the Pareto Set Model during the opimization steps to stabilize the PSL.
Enhancing Few-shot Image Classification with Cosine Transformer
Quang-Huy Nguyen, Cuong Q. Nguyen, Dung D. Le, Hieu H. Pham
IEEE Access, 2023
We explore Few-shot Image Classification by proposing a new cross-attention mechanism based on cosine similarity, without using softmax, to further emphasizes the correlation between labeled supports and unlabeled query representations, thus enhancing ViT-based few-shot algorithms across various settings and scenarios compare to convention attention mechanism.
Dec, 2024: Our paper Improving Pareto Set Learning for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization via Stein Variational Hypernetworks is accepted at AAAI 2025.
Aug, 2024: I become PhD student in Computer Science and Enginering at the Ohio State University, advised by Prof. Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao.
Aug, 2023: I participate in the 10th Vietname Summer School of Science at International Centre for Interdisciplinary Science and Education, Quy Nhon, Vietnam.
Aug, 2023: I become AI Research Resident at FPTSoftware AI Center, Ho Chi Minh City.
Jul, 2023: Our paper Few-shot Cosine Transformer is accepted at IEEE Access (Q1, IF 3.476).
Feb, 2023: I become Research Assistant at College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity.
Jan, 2022: I become Research Assistant at VinUni-Illinois Smart Health Center (VISHC), VinUniversity.
Dec, 2020: I obtain a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM.
Jul, 2019: I become Research Assistant at Faculty of Computer Engineering, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM.