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Explainable & Efficient AI

Interpretable models and resource-efficient learning for deployable, trustworthy AI systems.

To make modern AI both understandable and practical, reducing compute cost while preserving transparency in how models reach their decisions.

Overview

This research pursues methods that improve the interpretability and efficiency of machine learning systems. It connects theoretical understanding of model behavior with algorithms that reduce training and inference cost for real-world deployment.

Key topics

  • Model interpretability and transparency
  • Efficient training and inference
  • Test-time scaling and adaptation
  • LLMs quantization
  • Stable Diffusion Models quantization

News

  • Jun 2026

    Paper Efficient Test-Time Scaling for LLM-based Time Series Forecasting accepted at SIGKDD

  • Jun 2026

    Paper Layer-Wise High-Impact Parameter Ratio Optimization in Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models accepted at at ACL

  • Mar 2026

    Paper Test-Time Instance-Specific Parameter Composition: A New Paradigm for Adaptive Generative Modeling accepted at CVPR

  • Feb 2026

    Paper Gradient-Aligned Calibration for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models accepted at ICLR

  • Feb 2026

    Paper Mitigating Semantic Collapse in Generative Personalization with Test-Time Embedding Adjustment accepted at ICLR

  • May 2025

    Paper Geometry-Aware Collaborative Multi-Solutions Optimizer for Model Fine-Tuning with Parameter Efficiency accepted at NeurIPS

  • Feb 2025

    Paper Promoting Ensemble Diversity with Interactive Bayesian Distributional Robustness for Fine-tuning Foundation Models accepted at ICML

  • Feb 2025

    Paper Improving Generalization with Flat Hilbert Bayesian Inference accepted at ICML

  • Mar 2025

    Paper Preserving Clusters in Prompt Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation accepted at CVPR

  • Mar 2024

    Paper NAYER: Noisy Layer Data Generation for Efficient and Effective Data-free Knowledge Distillation accepted at CVPR

  • Mar 2024

    Paper Text-Enhanced Data-free Approach for Federated Class-Incremental Learning accepted at CVPR

  • Jun 2024

    Paper MetaAug: Meta-Data Augmentation for Post-Training Quantization accepted at ICCV

  • May 2023

    (Best student paper award) Paper Feature-based Learning for Diverse and Privacy-Preserving Counterfactual Explanations accepted at SigKDD

  • Jan 2023

    Paper An Additive Instance-Wise Approach to Multi-class Model Interpretation accepted at ICLR

Papers in this direction

  • Efficient Test-Time Scaling for LLM-based Time Series Forecasting

    Xuan-May Le, Minh-Tuan Tran, Ling Luo, Uwe Aickelin, Dinh Phung, Trung Le

    SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2026
  • Layer-Wise High-Impact Parameter Ratio Optimization in Post-Training Quantization for Large Language Models

    Cuong Pham, Anh Dung Hoang, Cuong C. Nguyen, Trung Le, Gustavo Carneiro, Thanh-Toan Do

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)
  • Test-Time Instance-Specific Parameter Composition: A New Paradigm for Adaptive Generative Modeling

    Minh-Tuan Tran, Xuan-May Le, Quan Hung Tran, Mehrtash Harandi, Dinh Phung, Trung Le

    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026 (CVPR 2026)
  • Gradient-Aligned Calibration for Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Models

    Dung Anh Hoang, Cuong Pham, Trung Le, Jianfei Cai, Thanh-Toan Do

    International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR 2026)
  • Mitigating Semantic Collapse in Generative Personalization with Test-Time Embedding Adjustment

    Anh Tuan Bui, Thuy-Trang Vu, Trung Le, Junae Kim, Tamas Abraham, Rollin Omari, Amardeep Kaur, Dinh Phung

    International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR 2026)
  • Geometry-Aware Collaborative Multi-Solutions Optimizer for Model Fine-Tuning with Parameter Efficiency

    Van-Anh Nguyen, Trung Le, Mehrtash Harandi, Ehsan Abbasnejad, Thanh-Toan Do, Dinh Phung

    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
  • Promoting Ensemble Diversity with Interactive Bayesian Distributional Robustness for Fine-tuning Foundation Models

    Tuan Truong, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Quyen Tran, Tan Minh Nguyen, Dinh Phung, Trung Le

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025)
  • Improving Generalization with Flat Hilbert Bayesian Inference

    Tuan Truong, Quyen Tran, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Dinh Phung, Nhat Ho, Trung Le

    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025)
  • Preserving Clusters in Prompt Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Long Tung Vuong, Hoang Phan, Vy Vo, Anh Tuan Bui, Thanh-Toan Do, Dinh Phung, Trung Le

    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025 (CVPR 2025)
  • MetaAug: Meta-Data Augmentation for Post-Training Quantization

    Cuong Pham, Dung Hoang, Cuong C. Nguyen, Trung Le, Dinh Phung, Gustavo Carneiro, Thanh-Toan Do

    European Conference on Computer Vision 2024 (ECCV 2024)
  • NAYER: Noisy Layer Data Generation for Efficient and Effective Data-free Knowledge Distillation

    Tran Minh-Tuan, Trung Le, Xuan-May Le, Mehrtash Harandi, Quan Hung Tran, Dinh Phung

    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR 2024)
  • Text-Enhanced Data-free Approach for Federated Class-Incremental Learning

    Minh-Tuan Tran, Trung Le, Xuan-May Le, Mehrtash Harandi, Dinh Phung

    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 (CVPR 2024)
  • Feature-based Learning for Diverse and Privacy-Preserving Counterfactual Explanations

    Vy Vo, Trung Le, Van Nguyen, He Zhao, Edwin Bonilla, Gholamreza Haffari, Dinh Phung

    29th ACM SIGKDD Conference On Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2023
  • An Additive Instance-Wise Approach to Multi-class Model Interpretation

    Vy Vo, Van Nguyen, Trung Le, Quan Hung Tran, Gholamreza Haffari, Seyit Camtepe, Dinh Phung

    International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR) 2023