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Publications (41)

cs.LG2026

Universal Multi-Domain Translation via Diffusion Routers

Duc Kieu, Kien Do, Tuan Hoang +4

Multi-domain translation (MDT) aims to learn translations between multiple domains, yet existing approaches either require fully aligned tuples or can only handle domain pairs seen…

cs.LG2021

Theory and Evaluation Metrics for Learning Disentangled Representations

Kien Do, Truyen Tran

We make two theoretical contributions to disentanglement learning by (a) defining precise semantics of disentangled representations, and (b) establishing robust metrics for evaluat…

stat.ML2016

Outlier Detection on Mixed-Type Data: An Energy-based Approach

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Dinh Phung +1

Outlier detection amounts to finding data points that differ significantly from the norm. Classic outlier detection methods are largely designed for single data type such as contin…

cs.LG2016

Multilevel Anomaly Detection for Mixed Data

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

Anomalies are those deviating from the norm. Unsupervised anomaly detection often translates to identifying low density regions. Major problems arise when data is high-dimensional…

cs.LG2021

Semi-Supervised Learning with Variational Bayesian Inference and Maximum Uncertainty Regularization

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

We propose two generic methods for improving semi-supervised learning (SSL). The first integrates weight perturbation (WP) into existing "consistency regularization" (CR) based met…

cs.LG2020

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection on Temporal Multiway Data

Duc Nguyen, Phuoc Nguyen, Kien Do +3

Temporal anomaly detection looks for irregularities over space-time. Unsupervised temporal models employed thus far typically work on sequences of feature vectors, and much less on…

cs.CV2025

Predicting the Reliability of an Image Classifier under Image Distortion

Dang Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Kien Do +1

In image classification tasks, deep learning models are vulnerable to image distortions i.e. their accuracy significantly drops if the input images are distorted. An image-classifi…

cs.LG2024

Variational Flow Models: Flowing in Your Style

Kien Do, Duc Kieu, Toan Nguyen +4

We propose a systematic training-free method to transform the probability flow of a "linear" stochastic process characterized by the equation X_{t}=a_{t}X_{0}+σ_{t}X_{1} into a st…

cs.CR2023

Towards Effective and Robust Neural Trojan Defenses via Input Filtering

Kien Do, Haripriya Harikumar, Hung Le +6

Trojan attacks on deep neural networks are both dangerous and surreptitious. Over the past few years, Trojan attacks have advanced from using only a single input-agnostic trigger a…

cs.LG2024

Enhancing Length Extrapolation in Sequential Models with Pointer-Augmented Neural Memory

Hung Le, Dung Nguyen, Kien Do +2

We propose Pointer-Augmented Neural Memory (PANM) to help neural networks understand and apply symbol processing to new, longer sequences of data. PANM integrates an external neura…

cs.AI2023

Memory-Augmented Theory of Mind Network

Dung Nguyen, Phuoc Nguyen, Hung Le +3

Social reasoning necessitates the capacity of theory of mind (ToM), the ability to contextualise and attribute mental states to others without having access to their internal cogni…

cs.CV2022

Momentum Adversarial Distillation: Handling Large Distribution Shifts in Data-Free Knowledge Distillation

Kien Do, Hung Le, Dung Nguyen +5

Data-free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) has attracted attention recently thanks to its appealing capability of transferring knowledge from a teacher network to a student network wi…

cs.CV2023

Causal Inference via Style Transfer for Out-of-distribution Generalisation

Toan Nguyen, Kien Do, Duc Thanh Nguyen +2

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalisation aims to build a model that can generalise well on an unseen target domain using knowledge from multiple source domains. To this end, the mo…

cs.CV2025

h-Edit: Effective and Flexible Diffusion-Based Editing via Doob's h-Transform

Toan Nguyen, Kien Do, Duc Kieu +1

We introduce a theoretical framework for diffusion-based image editing by formulating it as a reverse-time bridge modeling problem. This approach modifies the backward process of a…

cs.CV2022

Black-box Few-shot Knowledge Distillation

Dang Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Kien Do +1

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient approach to transfer the knowledge from a large "teacher" network to a smaller "student" network. Traditional KD methods require lots of…

cs.AI2018

Knowledge Graph Embedding with Multiple Relation Projections

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

Knowledge graphs contain rich relational structures of the world, and thus complement data-driven machine learning in heterogeneous data. One of the most effective methods in repre…

cs.LG2024

Generating Realistic Tabular Data with Large Language Models

Dang Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Kien Do +2

While most generative models show achievements in image data generation, few are developed for tabular data generation. Recently, due to success of large language models (LLM) in d…

cs.LG2024

Beyond Surprise: Improving Exploration Through Surprise Novelty

Hung Le, Kien Do, Dung Nguyen +1

We present a new computing model for intrinsic rewards in reinforcement learning that addresses the limitations of existing surprise-driven explorations. The reward is the novelty…

cs.CL2024

Multi-Reference Preference Optimization for Large Language Models

Hung Le, Quan Tran, Dung Nguyen +4

How can Large Language Models (LLMs) be aligned with human intentions and values? A typical solution is to gather human preference on model outputs and finetune the LLMs accordingl…

cs.CV2021

Clustering by Maximizing Mutual Information Across Views

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

We propose a novel framework for image clustering that incorporates joint representation learning and clustering. Our method consists of two heads that share the same backbone netw…

cs.LG2022

Learning to Constrain Policy Optimization with Virtual Trust Region

Hung Le, Thommen Karimpanal George, Majid Abdolshah +4

We introduce a constrained optimization method for policy gradient reinforcement learning, which uses a virtual trust region to regulate each policy update. In addition to using th…

cs.CV2021

Semantic Host-free Trojan Attack

Haripriya Harikumar, Kien Do, Santu Rana +2

In this paper, we propose a novel host-free Trojan attack with triggers that are fixed in the semantic space but not necessarily in the pixel space. In contrast to existing Trojan…

cs.NE2018

Graph Transformation Policy Network for Chemical Reaction Prediction

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

We address a fundamental problem in chemistry known as chemical reaction product prediction. Our main insight is that the input reactant and reagent molecules can be jointly repres…

cs.LG2018

Attentional Multilabel Learning over Graphs: A Message Passing Approach

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Thin Nguyen +1

We address a largely open problem of multilabel classification over graphs. Unlike traditional vector input, a graph has rich variable-size substructures which are related to the l…

cs.LG2021

Episodic Policy Gradient Training

Hung Le, Majid Abdolshah, Thommen K. George +3

We introduce a novel training procedure for policy gradient methods wherein episodic memory is used to optimize the hyperparameters of reinforcement learning algorithms on-the-fly.…

cs.CV2026

Improving Diversity in Black-box Few-shot Knowledge Distillation

Tri-Nhan Vo, Dang Nguyen, Kien Do +1

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known technique to effectively compress a large network (teacher) to a smaller network (student) with little sacrifice in performance. However…

cs.CV2025

Bidirectional Diffusion Bridge Models

Duc Kieu, Kien Do, Toan Nguyen +2

Diffusion bridges have shown potential in paired image-to-image (I2I) translation tasks. However, existing methods are limited by their unidirectional nature, requiring separate mo…

cs.CV2025

Finding the Trigger: Causal Abductive Reasoning on Video Events

Thao Minh Le, Vuong Le, Kien Do +3

This paper introduces a new problem, Causal Abductive Reasoning on Video Events (CARVE), which involves identifying causal relationships between events in a video and generating hy…

cs.CV2026

FrameDiT: Diffusion Transformer with Matrix Attention for Efficient Video Generation

Minh Khoa Le, Kien Do, Duc Thanh Nguyen +1

High-fidelity video generation remains challenging for diffusion models due to the difficulty of modeling complex spatio-temporal dynamics efficiently. Recent video diffusion metho…

cs.LG2024

Stable Hadamard Memory: Revitalizing Memory-Augmented Agents for Reinforcement Learning

Hung Le, Kien Do, Dung Nguyen +2

Effective decision-making in partially observable environments demands robust memory management. Despite their success in supervised learning, current deep-learning memory models s…

cs.LG2018

Learning Deep Matrix Representations

Kien Do, Truyen Tran, Svetha Venkatesh

We present a new distributed representation in deep neural nets wherein the information is represented in native form as a matrix. This differs from current neural architectures th…

cs.LG2026

Reviving Error Correction in Modern Deep Time-Series Forecasting

Minh Hoang Nguyen, Dai Do, Huu Hiep Nguyen +3

Modern deep-learning models have achieved remarkable success in time-series forecasting. Yet, their performance degrades in long-term prediction due to error accumulation in autore…

cs.LG2026

Diverse Image Priors for Black-box Data-free Knowledge Distillation

Tri-Nhan Vo, Dang Nguyen, Trung Le +2

Knowledge distillation (KD) represents a vital mechanism to transfer expertise from complex teacher networks to efficient student models. However, in decentralized or secure AI eco…

cs.LG2022

Learning Theory of Mind via Dynamic Traits Attribution

Dung Nguyen, Phuoc Nguyen, Hung Le +3

Machine learning of Theory of Mind (ToM) is essential to build social agents that co-live with humans and other agents. This capacity, once acquired, will help machines infer the m…

cs.LG2024

Learning Structural Causal Models from Ordering: Identifiable Flow Models

Minh Khoa Le, Kien Do, Truyen Tran

In this study, we address causal inference when only observational data and a valid causal ordering from the causal graph are available. We introduce a set of flow models that can…

cs.LG2024

Revisiting the Dataset Bias Problem from a Statistical Perspective

Kien Do, Dung Nguyen, Hung Le +6

In this paper, we study the "dataset bias" problem from a statistical standpoint, and identify the main cause of the problem as the strong correlation between a class attribute u a…

cs.LG2023

Domain Generalisation via Risk Distribution Matching

Toan Nguyen, Kien Do, Bao Duong +1

We propose a novel approach for domain generalisation (DG) leveraging risk distributions to characterise domains, thereby achieving domain invariance. In our findings, risk distrib…

cs.CV2022

Defense Against Multi-target Trojan Attacks

Haripriya Harikumar, Santu Rana, Kien Do +4

Adversarial attacks on deep learning-based models pose a significant threat to the current AI infrastructure. Among them, Trojan attacks are the hardest to defend against. In this…

cs.NE2021

DeepProcess: Supporting business process execution using a MANN-based recommender system

Asjad Khan, Hung Le, Kien Do +4

Process-aware Recommender systems can provide critical decision support functionality to aid business process execution by recommending what actions to take next. Based on recent a…

cs.CV2023

Face Swapping as A Simple Arithmetic Operation

Truong Vu, Kien Do, Khang Nguyen +1

We propose a novel high-fidelity face swapping method called "Arithmetic Face Swapping" (AFS) that explicitly disentangles the intermediate latent space W+ of a pretrained StyleGAN…

cs.LG2026

Large Language Models for Imbalanced Classification: Diversity makes the difference

Dang Nguyen, Sunil Gupta, Kien Do +4

Oversampling is one of the most widely used approaches for addressing imbalanced classification. The core idea is to generate additional minority samples to rebalance the dataset.…