Tu Vu
PhD Student in Machine Learning
School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra
Machine Learning · Generative ModelsAbout
I am a PhD student in the School of Computing at the Australian National University (ANU), where I work on machine learning and generative modeling. Prior to my PhD, I spent eight years as a Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance, working on large-scale machine learning systems. I received my M.Eng. in 2018 and B.Eng. in 2016 from Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST).
News
- 09-2026 Attended MLSS 2026 in Tübingen, Germany.
- 03-2026 Started my PhD at ANU under the supervision of Dr. Thang Bui.
Research Experience
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Research Student — Data Science Lab, HUST, Hanoi, Vietnam01-2015 – 12-2018
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Research Student — Ichise's Laboratory, NII, Tokyo, Japan12-2017 – 01-2018
Selected Publications
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HieRD: Hierarchical Relational Distillation for Vision-Language Embedding Models
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Topic Modeling for Short Texts via Optimal Transport-Based Clustering
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EMO: Embedding Model Distillation via Intra-Model Relation and Optimal Transport Alignments
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HiCOT: Improving Neural Topic Models via Optimal Transport and Contrastive Learning
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GroundingGPT: Language Enhanced Multi-modal Grounding Model
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A Flexible Stochastic Method for Solving the MAP Problem in Topic Models
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Lifelong Learning Maxent for Suggestion Classification
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A Fast Algorithm for Posterior Inference with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
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Stochastic Bounds for Inference in Topic Models
* Equal contribution.
Honours & Awards
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PhD Scholarship (Fully Funded) — Australian National University2026
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First Prize in Calculus — 20th National Student Mathematics Olympiad2012
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Second Prize in Algebra — 20th National Student Mathematics Olympiad2012
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Consolation Prize in Mathematics — Vietnam National Excellent Student Contest2011
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Third Prize in Mathematics — Vietnam National Excellent Student Contest2010