Tai Nguyen

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May 2021: Hours before abseiling down Sơn Đoòng.

I’m Tai (Đức Tài), a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. I grew up in Saigon, Vietnam. 🇻🇳

I am excited about topics related to data attribution, robustness, and efficiency in LLMs and modern AI systems. I was fortunate to work with Eric Wong and Chris Callison-Burch.

I was previously at IBM Systems, helping build an analysis tool to support daily diagnosis and development of System-z mainframe servers. At Haverford, I studied Economics and Statistics and wrote my undergraduate thesis on Airbnb and welfare with Giri Parameswaran.

In my free time, I enjoy traveling, boxing, and following American football.

Please reach me at taing [at] seas [dot] upenn [dot] edu to chat or collaborate!

publications (* Equal contribution)

  1. In-context Example Selection with Influences
    Tai Nguyen, and Eric Wong
    In submission, 2024
  2. Explanation-based Finetuning Makes Models More Robust to Spurious Cues
    Josh Ludan, Yixuan Meng*, Tai Nguyen*, Saurabh Shah*, Qing Lyu, Marianna Apidianaki, and Chris Callison-Burch
    Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
  3. Software Entity Recognition with Noise-robust Learning
    Tai Nguyen, Yifeng Di, Joohan Lee, Muhao Chen, and Tianyi Zhang
    IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2023