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  • Kian Hsiang Low

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  • Bayesian Nonparametric Federated Learning of Neural Networks

    Mikhail Yurochkin, Mayank Agarwal, Soumya Ghosh, Kristjan H. Greenewald, Trong Nghia Hoang, Yasaman Khazaeni

    arXiv · 2019

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  • A Unifying Framework of Anytime Sparse Gaussian Process Regression Models with Stochastic Variational Inference for Big Data

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Quang Minh Hoang, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

    International Conference on Machine Learning · 2015

    This paper presents a novel unifying framework of anytime sparse Gaussian process regression (SGPR) models that can produce good predictive performance fast and improve their predictive performance over time and empirically evaluates the trade-off between the predictive performance vs. time efficiency of the anytime SGPR models on two real-world million-sized datasets.

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  • Verifiably safe exploration for end-to-end reinforcement learning

    Nathan Hunt, Nathan Fulton, Sara Magliacane, Trong Nghia Hoang, Subhro Das, Armando Solar-Lezama

    International Conference on Hybrid Systems: computation and control · 2021

    A first approach toward enforcing formal safety constraints on end-to-end policies with visual inputs is contributed, drawing on recent advances in object detection and automated reasoning for hybrid dynamical systems.

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  • A distributed variational inference framework for unifying parallel sparse Gaussian process regression models

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Quang Minh Hoang, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

    International Conference on Machine Learning · 2016

    A novel distributed variational inference framework that unifies many parallel sparse Gaussian process regression (SGPR) models for scalable hyperparameter learning with big data and empirically evaluates the predictive performance and scalability of the distributedvariational SGPR models unified by this framework on two real-world datasets.

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  • Decentralized High-Dimensional Bayesian Optimization With Factor Graphs

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Quang Minh Hoang, Ruofei Ouyang, Kian Hsiang Low

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    A novel decentralized high-dimensional Bayesian optimization algorithm that can exploit the interdependent effects of various input components on the output of the unknown objective function f for boosting the BO performance and still preserve scalability in the number of input dimensions without requiring prior knowledge or the existence of a low dimension of the input space is presented.

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  • Active Learning Is Planning: Nonmyopic ε-Bayes-Optimal Active Learning of Gaussian Processes

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Kian Hsiang Low, Patrick Jaillet, Mohan Kankanhalli

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2014

    This paper presents a novel nonmyopic e-Bayes-optimal active learning (e-BAL) approach that jointly optimizes the exploration-exploitation trade-off and proposes an anytime algorithm based on eBAL with performance guarantee and empirically demonstrates that it outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms.

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  • Collective Online Learning of Gaussian Processes in Massive Multi-Agent Systems

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Quang Minh Hoang, Kian Hsiang Low, Jonathan P. How

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    A rigorous theoretical analysis of the approximation loss arising from the proposed representation to achieve efficient online updates and model fusion and shows that COOL-GP is highly effective in model fusion, resilient to information disparity between agents, robust to transmission loss, and can scale to thousands of agents.

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  • Near-Optimal Active Learning of Multi-Output Gaussian Processes

    Yehong Zhang, Trong Nghia Hoang, Kian Hsiang Low, Mohan Kankanhalli

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2016

    This paper exploits a structure common to sparse MOGP models for deriving a novel active learning criterion and exploits a relaxed form of submodularity property of the new criterion for devising a polynomial-time approximation algorithm that guarantees a constant-factor approximation of that achieved by the optimal set of selected observations.

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  • A Generalized Stochastic Variational Bayesian Hyperparameter Learning Framework for Sparse Spectrum Gaussian Process Regression

    Quang Minh Hoang, Trong Nghia Hoang, Kian Hsiang Low

    AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) · 2017

    The generalized framework of stochastic variational Bayesian sparse spectrum GP (sVBSSGP) models addresses their shortcomings by adopting a Bayesian treatment of the spectral frequencies to avoid overfitting, and exploiting local data for boosting the predictive performance.

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  • Nonmyopic \epsilon-Bayes-Optimal Active Learning of Gaussian Processes

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Low, Kian Hsiang, Patrick Jaillet, Mohan Kankanhalli

    PubMed · 2014

    To perform active learning in real time, this paper proposes an anytime algorithm based on e-BAL with performance guarantee and empirically demonstrate that, with limited budget, it outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms.

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  • DDL: Deep Dictionary Learning for Predictive Phenotyping

    Tianfan Fu, Trong Nghia Hoang, Cao Xiao, Jimeng Sun

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2019

    A deep dictionary learning framework (DDL) for phenotyping is proposed, which utilizes unlabeled data as a complementary source of information to generate a better, more succinct data representation that helps improve DDL’s phenotyping performance over existing methods that only uses labeled data.

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  • Collective Model Fusion for Multiple Black-Box Experts

    Quang Minh Hoang, Trong Nghia Hoang, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Carl Kingsford

    International Conference on Machine Learning · 2019

    This paper presents the first collective model fusion framework for multiple experts with heterogeneous black-box architectures, addressing the key issues of how black- box experts interact to understand the predictive behaviors of one another and how the shared understandings can be combined to generate high-quality consensus prediction.

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  • Decision-theoretic approach to maximizing observation of multiple targets in multi-camera surveillance

    Prabhu Natarajan, Trong Nghia Hoang, Kian Hsiang Low, Mohan Kankanhalli

    2012

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  • Offline Model-Based Optimization via Policy-Guided Gradient Search

    Yassine Chemingui, Aryan Deshwal, Trong Nghia Hoang, Janardhan Rao Doppa

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2024

    This work introduces a new learning-to-search perspective for offline optimization by reformulating it as an offline reinforcement learning problem and explicitly learns the best policy for a given surrogate model created from the offline data.

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  • Learning Task-Agnostic Embedding of Multiple Black-Box Experts for Multi-Task Model Fusion

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Chi Thanh Lam, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Patrick Jaillet

    DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2020

    A new fusion paradigm is developed that represents each expert as a distribution over a spectrum of predictive prototypes, which are isolated from task-specific information encoded within the prototype distribution and can then be reintegrated to generate a new model that solves a new task encoded with a different prototype distribution.

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  • Recent Advances in Scaling Up Gaussian Process Predictive Models for Large Spatiotemporal Data

    Kian Hsiang Low, Jie Chen, Trong Nghia Hoang, Nuo Xu, Patrick Jaillet

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2015

    An overview of the recent progress in scaling up GP models for large spatiotemporally correlated data through parallelization on clusters of machines, online learning, and nonmyopic active sensing/learning is presented.

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  • Probabilistic Federated Prompt-Tuning with Non-IID and Imbalanced Data

    Pei-Yau Weng, Minh Hoang, Lam M. Nguyen, My T. Thai, Tsui-Wei Weng, Trong Nghia Hoang

    arXiv · 2025

    This work transforms federated learning into a distributed set modeling task, aggregating diverse sets of prompts to globally fine-tune the pre-trained model, and introduces a new probabilistic prompt aggregation method that substantially outperforms existing federated model aggregation techniques.

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  • Scalable Decision-Theoretic Coordination and Control for Real-time Active Multi-Camera Surveillance

    Prabhu Natarajan, Trong Nghia Hoang, Yongkang Wong, Kian Hsiang Low, Mohan Kankanhalli

    International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras · 2014

    An overview of the novel decision-theoretic multi-agent approach for controlling and coordinating multiple active cameras in surveillance, which focuses on two novel surveillance tasks: maximize the number of targets observed in active cameras with guaranteed image resolution and to improve the fairness in observation of multiple targets.

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  • AID: Active Distillation Machine to Leverage Pre-Trained Black-Box Models in Private Data Settings

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Shenda Hong, Cao Xiao, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Jimeng Sun

    Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 · 2021

    This paper presents an active distillation method for a local institution to find the best queries within its given budget to distill an on-server black-box model’s predictive knowledge into a local surrogate with transparent parameterization, which addresses several challenges of deploying machine learning in many industrial settings with strong proprietary constraints.

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  • Literature mining for alternative cementitious precursors and dissolution rate modeling of glassy phases

    Hugo Uvegi, Zach Jensen, Trong Nghia Hoang, Brian Traynor, Tunahan Aytaş, Richard Goodwin, Elsa Olivetti

    Journal of the American Ceramic Society · 2020

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  • CASTER: Predicting Drug Interactions with Chemical Substructure Representation

    Kexin Huang, Cao Xiao, Trong Nghia Hoang, Lucas M. Glass, Jimeng Sun

    arXiv · 2019

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  • Boosting Offline Optimizers with Surrogate Sensitivity

    Manh Cuong Dao, Phi Le Nguyen, Thao Nguyen Truong, Trong Nghia Hoang

    arXiv · 2025

    An optimizable sensitivity measurement is developed for the surrogate model, which inspires a sensitivity-informed regularizer that is applicable to a wide range of offline optimizers and is demonstrated in the extensive experiment benchmark.

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  • Incentives in Private Collaborative Machine Learning

    Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Yehong Zhang, Trong Nghia Hoang, Xinyi Xu, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, Patrick Jaillet

    arXiv · 2024

    This work introduces differential privacy (DP) as an incentive, which enforces a privacy-valuation trade-off, and rewards each party with different posterior samples of the model parameters.

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  • Near-Optimal Adversarial Policy Switching for Decentralized Asynchronous Multi-Agent Systems

    Trong Nghia Hoang, Yuchen Xiao, Kavinayan Sivakumar, Christopher Amato, Jonathan P. How

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · 2018

    The approach first optimizes a set of stratagems that represent best responses to detect changes in adversary strategies and then integrated into a unified policy that can detect and respond when the adversaries change their strategies.

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