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Publications (27)

physics.ao-ph2024

Utilizing Low-Cost Sensors to Monitor Indoor Air Quality in Mongolian Gers

Callum E. Flowerday, Philip Lundrigan, Christopher Kitras +2

Air quality has important climate and health effects. There is a need, therefore, to monitor air quality both indoors and outdoors. Methods of measuring air quality should be cost-…

cs.LG2025

Noise Contrastive Estimation-based Matching Framework for Low-Resource Security Attack Pattern Recognition

Tu Nguyen, Nedim Šrndić, Alexander Neth

Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) represent sophisticated attack patterns in the cybersecurity domain, described encyclopedically in textual knowledge bases. Identifying TT…

cs.SI2024

A Comprehensive Low and High-level Feature Analysis for Early Rumor Detection on Twitter

Tu Nguyen

Recent work have done a good job in modeling rumors and detecting them over microblog streams. However, the performance of their automatic approaches are not relatively high when l…

cs.LG2026

Memisis: Orchestrating and Evaluating Synthetic Data for Tabular Health Datasets

Nitish Nagesh, Pengbao Zhou, Atchuth Naveen Chilaparasetti +8

Synthetic data is widely used in healthcare to create datasets that preserve statistical properties of real data without exposing sensitive patient information. Generating and eval…

cs.CY2024

On the Predictability of non-CGM Diabetes Data for Personalized Recommendation

Tu Nguyen, Markus Rokicki

With continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), data-driven models on blood glucose prediction have been shown to be effective in related work. However, such (CGM) systems are not always…

cs.IR2021

On the Feasibility of Predicting Questions being Forgotten in Stack Overflow

Thi Huyen Nguyen, Tu Nguyen, Tuan-Anh Hoang +1

For their attractiveness, comprehensiveness and dynamic coverage of relevant topics, community-based question answering sites such as Stack Overflow heavily rely on the engagement…

math.OC2020

Admissibility of solution estimators for stochastic optimization

Amitabh Basu, Tu Nguyen, Ao Sun

We look at stochastic optimization problems through the lens of statistical decision theory. In particular, we address admissibility, in the statistical decision theory sense, of t…

math.AP2018

Uniqueness estimates for the general complex conductivity equation and their applications to inverse problems

Catalin Carstea, Tu Nguyen, Jenn-Nan Wang

The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly, we would like to derive quantitative uniqueness estimates for solutions of the general complex conductivity equation. It is still unknown…

astro-ph.IM2022

Globally optimal and scalable -way matching of astronomy catalogs

Tu Nguyen, Amitabh Basu, Támas Budavári

Building on previous Bayesian approaches, we introduce a novel formulation of probabilistic cross-identification, where detections are directly associated to (hypothesized) astrono…

math.AP2018

Approximate Cloaking for The Heat Equation via Transformation Optics

Hoai-Minh Nguyen, Tu Nguyen

In this paper, we establish approximate cloaking for the heat equation via transformation optics. We show that the degree of visibility is of the order in three dimensions and…

math.CV2026

Estimates for the -Problem on Rational Hartogs Triangles

Tran Vu Khanh, Tu Nguyen

The paper proves that solution operators for the $ar{\\partial}$-problem on rational Hartogs triangles are bounded on spaces for a range of , and identifies the -inter…

#hartogs triangle#lp estimates#dbar problem#several complex variables
cs.LG2025

Rethinking Large Language Model Distillation: A Constrained Markov Decision Process Perspective

Matthieu Zimmer, Xiaotong Ji, Tu Nguyen +1

We introduce a novel approach to large language model (LLM) distillation by formulating it as a constrained reinforcement learning problem. While recent work has begun exploring th…

cs.SI2024

On Early-stage Debunking Rumors on Twitter: Leveraging the Wisdom of Weak Learners

Tu Nguyen, Cheng Li, Claudia Niederée

Recently a lot of progress has been made in rumor modeling and rumor detection for micro-blogging streams. However, existing automated methods do not perform very well for early ru…

cs.AI2025

Tree-OPO: Off-policy Monte Carlo Tree-Guided Advantage Optimization for Multistep Reasoning

Bingning Huang, Tu Nguyen, Matthieu Zimmer

Recent advances in reasoning with large language models (LLMs) have shown the effectiveness of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for generating high quality intermediate trajectories,…

cs.IR2024

Multiple Models for Recommending Temporal Aspects of Entities

Tu Nguyen, Nattiya Kanhabua, Wolfgang Nejdl

Entity aspect recommendation is an emerging task in semantic search that helps users discover serendipitous and prominent information with respect to an entity, of which salience (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Highly Stable Silicon Anodes Enabled by Sub-10 nm Pores and Particles

Pankaj Ghildiyal, Brandon Wagner, Jianjun Chen +4

Silicon anodes offer high energy densities for next-generation lithium-ion batteries; however, their application is limited by severe volume expansion during cycling. Making silico…

math.AP2007

Power series solution of the modified KdV equation

Tu Nguyen

We prove local-wellposedness of the mKdV equation in spaces using the new method of M. Christ.

cs.SE2026

TraceView: Interactive Visualization of Agentic Program Repair Trajectories

Amirali Sajadi, Tu Nguyen, Kimmie Huynh +2

LLM-based automated program repair (APR) agents generate patches to fix software bugs with minimal human intervention. These agents often produce long trajectories of reasoning, to…

cs.CR2026

AXE: Grey-Box Exploitability Confirmation for Localized Vulnerability Reports

Amirali Sajadi, Tu Nguyen, Kostadin Damevski +1

Vulnerability detection tools are widely adopted in software projects, yet they often overwhelm maintainers with false positives and non-actionable reports. Automated exploitation…

cs.IR2025

A Trio Neural Model for Dynamic Entity Relatedness Ranking

Tu Nguyen, Tuan Tran, Wolfgang Nejdl

Measuring entity relatedness is a fundamental task for many natural language processing and information retrieval applications. Prior work often studies entity relatedness in stati…

cs.LG2026

Trustworthy synthetic data for campaign decision support: strategy simulation fidelity and the PolicySynth framework

Tung Dang, The Hung Phung, Son Lam Nguyen +1

The paper presents PolicySynth, a synthetic data generation framework designed to preserve decision alignment for marketing campaign support, and introduces strategy simulation fid…

#synthetic data#decision support systems#campaign optimization#privacy
cs.SE2025

RBCTest: Leveraging LLMs to Mine and Verify Oracles of API Response Bodies for RESTful API Testing

Hieu Huynh, Tri Le, Tu Nguyen +3

In API testing, deriving logical constraints on API response bodies to be used as oracles is crucial for generating test cases and performing automated testing of RESTful APIs. How…

cs.AI2026

The Model Knows, the Decoder Finds: Future Value Guided Particle Power Sampling

Tu Nguyen, Matthieu Zimmer, Rasul Tutunov +2

A recurring pattern in "reasoning without training" is that base LLMs already assign non-trivial probability mass to correct multi-step solutions; the bottleneck is locating these…

math.AP2007

On a question of Landis and Oleinik

Tu Nguyen

We answer in the affirmative a question posed by Landis and Oleinik on unique continuation of variable coefficients parabolic equations.

cs.CV2025

Spatiotemporal Tile-based Attention-guided LSTMs for Traffic Video Prediction

Tu Nguyen

This extended abstract describes our solution for the Traffic4Cast Challenge 2019. The task requires modeling both fine-grained (pixel-level) and coarse (region-level) spatial stru…

cs.CL2025

How Persuasive is Your Context?

Tu Nguyen, Kevin Du, Alexander Miserlis Hoyle +1

Two central capabilities of language models (LMs) are: (i) drawing on prior knowledge about entities, which allows them to answer queries such as "What's the official language of A…

cs.HC2022

Enabling hand gesture customization on wrist-worn devices

Xuhai Xu, Jun Gong, Carolina Brum +13

We present a framework for gesture customization requiring minimal examples from users, all without degrading the performance of existing gesture sets. To achieve this, we first de…