Awesome outcome in the first quarter of 2021

In the first quarter of 2021, VinAI Research has a total of 15 accepted papers at top-tier AI conferences. Among those, 6 papers were accepted at ICLR, 7 papers to CVPR and 2 papers to NAACL! What an awesome outcome from our top-notch world-class research team, and congratulations to all involved!

At ICLR 2021, among the VinAI authors are 4 VinAI residents: Khai Nguyen, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Son Nguyen and Duong Le Hoang. In particular, Khai Nguyen, who just graduated from HUST, is the first author on 2 papers (one spotlight).

Along with that, half of VinAI authors at CVPR 2021 are the same core-team that are hard at work at building advanced perception systems for autonomous driving, the ultimate AI and computer vision problem of our generation.

Last but not least, we also have 2 papers accepted at a top-tier NLP Conference (NAACL), one of them is the first Vietnamese NLP paper from Vietnam: “COVID-19 named entity recognition for Vietnamese” by Thinh Hung Truong, Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen (author of PhoBERT).

Behind these sweet outputs is an incredible amount of hard work and many sleepless nights by the entire technical and support staff at VinAI.

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Here are the list of VinAI papers accepted:

*External authors

ICLR 2021:

• Distributional Sliced-Wasserstein and Applications to Generative Modeling
  Khai Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Tung Pham, Hung Bui
  Spotlight, ICLR 2021

• Improving relational regularized autoencoders with spherical sliced fused Gromov Wasserstein
  Khai Nguyen, Son Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Tung Pham, Hung Bui
  Poster paper, ICLR 2021

• WaNet – Imperceptible Warping-based Backdoor Attack
  Tuan Anh Nguyen, Tuan Anh Tran
  Poster paper, ICLR 2021

• Network Pruning That Matters: A Case Study on Retraining Variants
  Duong Le Hoang, Binh-Son Hua
  Poster paper, ICLR 2021

• Towards Robustness Against Natural Language Word Substitutions
  Xinshuai Dong*, Hong Liu*, Rongrong Ji*, Anh Tuan Luu
  Spotlight, ICLR 2021

• Parameterization of Hypercomplex Multiplications
  Aston Zhang*, Yi Tay*, SHUAI Zhang*, Alvin Chan*, Anh Tuan Luu
  Spotlight, ICLR 2021

CVPR 2021 – to appear:

• Clusformer: A Transformer based Clustering Approach to Unsupervised Large-scale Face and Visual Landmark Recognition
  Nguyen Xuan Bac, Duc Toan Bui, Chi Nhan Duong, Tien D. Bui* and Khoa Luu

• DyGLIP: A Dynamic Graph Model with Link Prediction for Accurate Multi-Camera Multiple Object Tracking
  Kha Gia Quach, Pha Nguyen, Huu Le*, Thanh-Dat Truong*, Chi Nhan Duong, Minh-Triet Tran*, Khoa Luu

• Progressive Semantic Segmentation
  Chuong Huynh, Anh Tran, Khoa Luu, Minh Hoai

• Explore Image Deblurring via Encoded Blur Kernel Space
  Phong Tran, Anh Tran, Quynh Phung, Minh Hoai

• Lipstick ain’t enough: Beyond Color Matching for In-the-Wild Makeup Transfer
  Thao Nguyen, Anh Tran, Minh Hoai

• Dictionary-guided Scene Text Recognition
  Nguyen Nguyen, Thu Nguyen, Vinh Tran, Triet Tran*, Thanh Ngo*, Thien Nguyen, Minh Hoai

• Learning To Count Everything
  Viresh Ranjan*, Udbhav Sharma*, Thu Nguyen, Minh Hoai

NAACL 2021 – to appear:

• COVID-19 named entity recognition for Vietnamese
  Thinh Hung Truong, Mai Hoang Dao and Dat Quoc Nguyen

• Graph Convolutional Networks for Event Causality Identification with Rich Document-level Structures
  Minh Tran Phu and Thien Huu Nguyen