Duy H. M. Nguyen

Nguyen Ho Minh Duy

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Universitätsstraße 32

70569 Stuttgart, Germany

Room: 2.321

I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate under the supervision of Prof. Mathias Niepert at Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) and University of Stuttgart. I have also been a Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) since 2021.

My topics of interest are Hybrid Discrete-Continuous Learning (differentiable relaxations for discrete intermediate representations), Scalable Algorithms for Multi-modal Learning with applications for Healthcare, Simulation Science, and Efficient Deep Learning (model compression, accelerated training/inference, etc.)

Please visit my Google Scholar for a full list of publications and GitHub for source codes.

news

May 01, 2025 🎉 Our first (i) preliminary version, MGPath has been accepted to the Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild, ICLR 2025 and (ii) another one about LLaMA-Adapter’s prompt learning is accepted at ICML 2025 (Code is coming soon!).
Apr 20, 2025 🎉 Our work in building a new Inductive Message Passing Network for Efficient Human-in-the-Loop Annotation of Mobile Eye Tracking Data has been accepted at Scientific Report, Nature Portfolio.
Feb 20, 2025 :bell: Excited to share our latest work! 🎉: (i) On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation – We introduce a Mixture of Experts (MoE) perspective to explain the mechanism behind LLaMA-Adapter’s prompt learning. (ii) MGPath – A novel multi-granular prompt learning method for few-shot WSI pathology prediction, leveraging the power of foundation vision-language models.
Oct 08, 2024 🇨🇭 Start my visiting research at ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich. The topics are about Multi-Modal LLMs for Healthcare empowered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation.
Oct 07, 2024 :bell: Excited to introduce our latest work on medical multi-modal LLMs: LoGra-Med, a novel pre-training algorithm that incorporates multi-graph alignment to effectively address the data-hungry nature of autoregressive learning.
Oct 06, 2024 :rocket: The paper PiToMe has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024. Our code will be available soon!
Jun 10, 2024 :bell: Our new preprint PiToMe is online. We propose a new method to do token merging in the Transformer with spectrum-preserving.
May 01, 2024 :rocket: A paper submitted to ICML 2024 on the molecular conformer aggregation network topic is accepted.
Jan 15, 2024 :rocket: A paper submitted to ICLR 2024 on the topic of accelerating transformers is accepted as an oral talk.
Sep 22, 2023 :rocket: A paper submitted to NeurIPS 2023 on a large-scale medical image pre-trained models using second-order graph matching is accepted.

preprints

  1. Under Review
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    From Fragments to Geometry: A Unified Graph Transformer for Molecular Representation from Conformer Ensembles
    Duy MH Nguyen , Trung Quoc Nguyen, Ha Thi Hong Le, Mai TN Truong , TrungTin Nguyen, and 9 more authors
    2025
  2. Under Review
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    Mitigating Reward Over-optimization in Direct Alignment Algorithms with Importance Sampling
    Phuc Minh Nguyen , Ngoc-Hieu Nguyen, Duy MH Nguyen, Anji Liu, An Mai, and 3 more authors
    2025
  3. Under Review
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    ExGra-Med: Extended Context Graph Alignment for Medical Vision-Language Models
    Duy MH Nguyen, Nghiem T. Diep , Trung Q. Nguyen, Hoang-Bao Le , Tai Nguyen, and 8 more authors
    2025
  4. Under Review
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    How Many Tokens Do 3D Point Cloud Transformer Architectures Really Need?
    Tuan Anh Tran, Duy MH Nguyen, Hoai-Chau Tran, Michael Barz, Khoa D Doan, and 5 more authors
    2025

selected publications

  1. TMLR
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    MGPATH: Vision-Language Model with Multi-Granular Prompt Learning for Few-Shot WSI Classification
    Anh-Tien Nguyen, Duy MH Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep , Trung Quoc Nguyen, Nhat Ho, and 5 more authors
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025
    Accepted at Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild, ICLR 2025
  2. ICML
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    On Zero-Initialized Attention: Optimal Prompt and Gating Factor Estimation
    Nghiem T. Diep* , Huy Nguyen* , Chau Nguyen*, Minh Le, Duy MH Nguyen, and 3 more authors
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  3. NeurIPS
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    Accelerating Transformers with Spectrum-Preserving Token Merging
    Hoai-Chau Tran*, Duy MH Nguyen* , Duy M Nguyen , Trung-Tin Nguyen, Ngan Le, and 5 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024
  4. ICML
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    Structure-aware E(3)-invariant molecular conformer aggregation networks
    Duy MH Nguyen, Nina Lukashina , Tai Nguyen, An T Le , TrungTin Nguyen, and 5 more authors
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  5. ICLR (Oral)
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    Energy minimizing-based token merging for accelerating Transformers
    Hoai-Chau Tran*, Duy MH Nguyen* , Manh-Duy Nguyen, Ngan Hoang Le , and Binh T Nguyen
    5th Workshop on practical ML for limited/low resource settings, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
  6. NeurIPS
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    LVM-Med: Learning large-scale self-supervised vision models for medical imaging via second-order graph matching
    Duy MH Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen, Nghiem Diep, Tan Ngoc Pham, Tri Cao, and 6 more authors
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
  7. AAAI
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    Joint self-supervised image-volume representation learning with intra-inter contrastive clustering
    Duy MH Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen, Truong TN Mai, Tri Cao , Binh T Nguyen, and 5 more authors
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
  8. CVPR
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    LMGP: Lifted multicut meets geometry projections for multi-camera multi-object tracking
    Duy MH Nguyen, Roberto Henschel, Bodo Rosenhahn, Daniel Sonntag, and Paul Swoboda
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022
  9. MedIA
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    TATL: Task agnostic transfer learning for skin attributes detection
    Duy MH Nguyen , Thu T Nguyen, Huong Vu, Quang Pham , Manh-Duy Nguyen, and 2 more authors
    Medical Image Analysis, 2022