Tai NguyenI am Tai (Đức Tài), a research engineer at Apple . I am working on post-training, multimodality, and on-device language models for Apple Intelligence. Previously, I got my MS from the University of Pennsylvania, where I got started on research with Eric Wong and Chris Callison-Burch. I was also fortunate to work with Ben Bogin from Ai2. Before that, I studied Economics at the wonderful Haverford College and wrote my undergraduate thesis on the impact of Airbnb on welfare. I grew up in Saigon, Vietnam 🇻🇳. Email / GitHub / Google Scholar / huggingface / Twitter |
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Work |
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Capacity of a LoRA Adapter (Part 1) Jul 2026 Measure how many bits a LoRA is worth with DataDecide |
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Self-play on a Vintage Language Model Jun 2026 Lessons from applying SPICE on a pre-1931 language model |
Research(*: equal contribution) |
DataDecide: How to Predict Best Pretraining Data with Small ExperimentsIan Magnusson*, Nguyen Tai*, Ben Bogin*, David Heineman, Jena D Hwang, Luca Soldaini, Akshita Bhagia, Jiacheng Liu, Dirk Groeneveld, Oyvind Tafjord, Noah A Smith, Pang Wei Koh, Jesse Dodge ICML 2025 DataWorld Workshop Oral arxiv / code / blog / huggingface / press / |
MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding BenchmarkKenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, ... Nguyen Tai ..., Niklas Muennighoff ICLR 2025 arxiv / code / website / |
In-context Example Selection with InfluencesNguyen Tai, Eric Wong arXiv 2024 arxiv / code / blog / |
Explanation-based Finetuning Makes Models More Robust to Spurious CuesJosh Magnus Ludan, Yixuan Meng*, Tai Nguyen*, Saurabh Shah*, Qing Lyu, Marianna Apidianaki, Chris Callison-Burch ACL 2023 arxiv / code / |
Software Entity Recognition with Noise-robust LearningTai Nguyen, Yifeng Di, Joohan Lee, Muhao Chen, Tianyi Zhang ASE 2023 arxiv / code / huggingface / |
Miscellanea
I enjoy boxing and tennis in my free time. I am a fan of the Seahawks, and try to travel as much as I can.
My Top 100 list inspired by Huyền Chip.
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Adapted from Jon Barron's website |