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Duy Minh Ho Nguyen

10 accepted papers

2026

FACET: A Fragment-Aware Conformer Ensemble Transformer

ICLR 2026poster

Accurately predicting molecular properties requires effective integration of structural information from both 2D molecular graphs and their corresponding equilibrium conformer ensembles. In this work, we propose FACET, a scalable Structure-Aware Graph Transformer that efficiently aggregates features…

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2026

Reinforce Trustworthiness in Multimodal Emotional Support System

AAAI 2026technical

In today’s world, emotional support is increasingly essential, yet it remains challenging for both those seeking help and those offering it. Multimodal approaches to emotional support show great promise by integrating diverse data sources to provide empathetic, contextually relevant responses, foste

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2026

Rethinking Progression of Memory State in Robotic Manipulation: An Object-Centric Perspective

AAAI 2026technical

As embodied agents operate in increasingly complex environments, the ability to perceive, track, and reason about individual object instances over time becomes essential, especially in tasks requiring sequenced interactions with visually similar objects. In non-Markovian settings, critical decision

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2025

ExGra-Med: Extended Context Graph Alignment for Medical Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

State-of-the-art medical multi-modal LLMs (med-MLLMs), such as LLaVA-Med and BioMedGPT, primarily depend on scaling model size and data volume, with training driven largely by autoregressive objectives. However, we reveal that this approach can lead to weak vision-language alignment, making these mo…

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2025

How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in 3D point cloud transformers have led to state-of-the-art results in tasks such as semantic segmentation and reconstruction. However, these models typically rely on dense token representations, incurring high computational and memory costs during training and inference. In this wor…

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2025

Mitigating Reward Over-optimization in Direct Alignment Algorithms with Importance Sampling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recently, Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs) such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have emerged as alternatives to the standard Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values. Surprisingly, while DAAs do not use a separate proxy…

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2025

On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation

ICML 2025poster

LLaMA-Adapter has recently emerged as an efficient fine-tuning technique for LLaMA models, leveraging zero-initialized attention to stabilize training and enhance performance. However, despite its empirical success, the theoretical foundations of zero-initialized attention remain largely unexplored.…

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2024

Accelerating Transformers with Spectrum-Preserving Token Merging

NeurIPS 2024poster

Increasing the throughput of the Transformer architecture, a foundational component used in numerous state-of-the-art models for vision and language tasks (e.g., GPT, LLaVa), is an important problem in machine learning. One recent and effective strategy is to merge token representations within Trans…

2024

Structure-Aware E(3)-Invariant Molecular Conformer Aggregation Networks

ICML 2024poster

A molecule’s 2D representation consists of its atoms, their attributes, and the molecule’s covalent bonds. A 3D (geometric) representation of a molecule is called a conformer and consists of its atom types and Cartesian coordinates. Every conformer has a potential energy, and the lower this energy,…

2023

LVM-Med: Learning Large-Scale Self-Supervised Vision Models for Medical Imaging via Second-order Graph Matching

NeurIPS 2023poster

Obtaining large pre-trained models that can be fine-tuned to new tasks with limited annotated samples has remained an open challenge for medical imaging data. While pre-trained networks on ImageNet and vision-language foundation models trained on web-scale data are the prevailing approaches, their e…