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Biography
Trang Vu is a Lecturer in Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning. Her current research focuses on efficient and trustworthy NLP methods to make NLP technologies safe and accessible.
My current research interests include
- Safe and trustworthy NLP: alignment and hallucination mitigation for LLMs
- Cultural-aware machine translation
- ML methods to facilitate efficient NLP such as active learning, transfer learning and semi-supervised learning
Education/Academic qualification
AI and Machine Learning, Doctoral of Philosophy, Learning to Adapt Neural Models with Limited Human Supervision in Natural Language Processing, Department of Data Science & AI
Award Date: 26 Oct 2022
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
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TMLGenAI: Trustworthy Generative AI: Towards Safe and Aligned Foundation Models
Phung, D. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Vu, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Qu, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Le, T. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Haffari, R. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Webb, G. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Nicholson, A. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Ke, Q. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Cai, J. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Bui, T. (Chief Investigator (CI))
11/06/24 → 10/07/26
Project: Research
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Aligning Large Language Models with Human Intention: Aligning Large Language Models with Human Intention
Haffari, R. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Vu, T. (Chief Investigator (CI))
4/07/23 → 21/12/26
Project: Research
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Active Continual Learning: On Balancing Knowledge Retention and Learnability
Vu, T.-T., Khadivi, S., Ghorbanali, M., Phung, D. & Haffari, G., 2025, AI 2024, AI 2024: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 37th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2024 Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 25–29, 2024 Proceedings, Part II. Gong, M., Song, Y., Koh, Y. S., Xiang, W. & Wang, D. (eds.). Singapore Singapore: Springer, p. 137-150 14 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15443).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research
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Extending LLMs to New Languages: A Case Study of Llama and Persian Adaptation
Sani, S. M., Sadeghi, P., Vu, T.-T., Yaghoobzadeh, Y. & Haffari, G., 2025, COLING 2025, The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference. Rambow, O., Wanner, L., Apidianaki, M., Al-Khalifa, H., Di Eugenio, B. & Schockaert, S. (eds.). Stroudsburg PA USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 8868-8884 17 p. (Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING; vol. Part F206484-1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Fantastic Targets for Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models and Where to Find Them
Bui, A. T., Vu, T., Vuong, L., Le, T., Montague, P., Abraham, T., Kim, J. & Phung, D., 2025, The International Conference on Learning Representations 2025. LeCun, Y. (ed.). Portland OR USA: OpenReview, 43 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
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Automatic evaluation of shared decision making in maternity care with natural language processing
Waddell, A., Vu, T., Pollock, W. E., Lokmic-Tomkins, Z., Watkins, V., Valentine, K. D. & Olivier, P. L., Jul 2024, In: BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 29, S1, p. A136 1 p., 287.Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract › peer-review
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Direct Evaluation of Chain-of-Thought in Multi-hop Reasoning with Knowledge Graphs
Nguyen, M.-V., Luo, L., Shiri, F., Phung, D., Li, Y. F., Vu, T. T. & Haffari, G., 2024, 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024 - Proceedings of the Conference. Ku, L.-W., Martins, A. & Srikumar, V. (eds.). Kerrville TX USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 2862-2883 22 p. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
Open Access7 Citations (Scopus)