Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen

Research Potato in CS @NUSingapore

[Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen @duynht]

I’m happy and grateful to share that I’ve started my PhD @NUSingapore under the @AISingapore PhD Fellowship!

[Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen @duynht]

@agents4academia @OxfordStats @NUSComputing @NTUsg @AnthropicAI Thanks to @klarakaleb @harit_v @yeewhye for organizing this. Super fun!

[Agents For Academia @agents4academia]

First up a hackathon: 20+ researchers · two weeks · @OxfordStats × @NUSComputing × @NTUsg and tokens on tap by @AnthropicAI .

Outcome: Five open‑source AI agents solving common workflow frustrations across the whole research lifecycle. 🧵

[Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen @duynht]

@zzlccc @GoogleDeepMind @YiTayML @quocleix Big congrats!

[Anya Sims @anyaasims]

🎉Excited to share our new work: "StochasTok: Improving Fine-Grained Subword Understanding in LLMs"!🎉

We rethink tokenization and allow LLMs to ‘see inside’ individual tokens by stochastically splitting them into equivalent pairs. See👇!

Thanks to my incredible co-authors!🥰

[Do Xuan Long @dxlong2000]

🚨My awesome labmate Yiran
@yiran_zhao924
is presenting our #ACL2024NLP poster: “Prompt Optimization via Adversarial In-context Learning”.

🚀 Want to chat about optimising LLM hard prompts by Adv. Learning?

🌟Please check out his presentation on Tue. 5-6pm, Poster Sec. 5!

[Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen @duynht]

@JayAlammar @MaartenGr Macaque, Parrot

[Reza Shokri @rzshokri]

NUS CS Research Week https://t.co/QxQe1MWaTC is in full swing with Hamed Hassani @HamedSHassani now giving a talk on robust machine learning.

[Reza Shokri @rzshokri]

Very excited about hosting many distinguished researchers for our upcoming @NUSComputing CS Research Week, Jan 10-12, 2024.
https://t.co/QxQe1MWaTC
The event is public and needs no formal registration.

[Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen @duynht]

@niloofar_mire @SethInternet Thanks for sharing! Also, happy new year!

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

My DGX Station is the most gorgeous piece of technology that I’ve ever had.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

“Remote work was a mistake, we need to return to the office.”

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

The rise of LLMs has been the main push for the adoption of vector databases. Turning text (or even multimodal) data into an embedding vector can significantly improve performance of any AI application. However, it is quite possible that we can get even better performance if we first build that basis workhorse of the Internet era - a search engine.

Read more in the following blog post:

“Build a search engine, not a vector DB”

https://t.co/LNCIRs10Dd

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

📢 My book on Fairness and ML with @s010n and Moritz Hardt has been published by @mitpress! https://t.co/QZSOLwAW6E
The draft (https://t.co/eswKksmbGb) has already been used in many courses. We've also released a set of exercises and discussion prompts: https://t.co/ZDkwR9Hdko

[Hongyan Chang @Hongyan_Chang]

We have been working on fairness problems in federated learning. We showed that FL may propagate bias from the most biased parties to the less biased parties. Check our paper here https://t.co/CxHGm0B9gg and a blog post here https://t.co/b0Z8iD7b3h.

[Yiping Lu @2prime_PKU]

realtime autoregressive poster generating

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

bridgit mendler is THE ONLY person who can rival that korean american Navy Seal Doctor Astronaut guy, and it's not close

she's only 30 so she has time...

Harvard JD
MIT PhD and Masters
USC BA
Space Tech Startup
Disney Channel Lead Star

@bridgitmendler

[Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning]

I'm happy to announce the start of a new free and open online course on neuroscience for people with a machine learning or similar background, co-developed by @MarcusGhosh. YouTube Videos and Jupyter-based exercises will be released weekly. There is a Discord for discussions.

[Chris Olah @ch402]

@brickroad7 Hey! I'm so glad you found this exciting -- I've been really excited about how it might help and delighted to be able to share it.

With that said, I do want to caution that a lot of work remains to be done.

https://t.co/t4dv27BW18

[Tuan-Duy Hien Nguyen @duynht]

Why does this read to me as "Just grab VC money without building usable and scalable products"? Maybe I am missing something.

[Dani Grant @thedanigrant]

It's a myth that VCs need you to have a technical co-founder

You just need an answer to "How are you going to build your product?"

“We'll prototype with no-code tools then hire an engineer” is 100% OK.

VCs want to see you can build a team, not write code

[Michael Tschannen @mtschannen]

New paper! We ask: How important is VQ for neural discrete representation learning? 🤔

I always felt it should be possible to “absorb” the VQ on top of a deep net into the net and use a simple grid-based quantization instead, without sacrificing much expressivity.

Summary 🧵👇