Tai Nguyen

I am Tai (Đức Tài), a research engineer at Apple . I am working on multimodal and on-device language models for Apple Intelligence features.

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 helped build an analytics tool to help detect and diagnose mainframe server failures at IBM Systems. 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 🇻🇳.

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Writing

Research

(*: equal contribution)

DataDecide: How to Predict Best Pretraining Data with Small Experiments

MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark

In-context Example Selection with Influences

Explanation-based Finetuning Makes Models More Robust to Spurious Cues

Software Entity Recognition with Noise-robust Learning

Past projects

Big Data Bowl 2023 — One of 5 finalists, winning $15,000. We got to meet the Director of Research of the NFL and had a professional video made.
video / code / feature article /

Underthesea 2022 — Contributed a small amount to an open-source Vietnamese toolkit built by the amazing Anh Vu. This helped me get started on NLP.
code /

STEAM For Vietnam 2022 — During Covid, I volunteered for a non-profit that provides free online education for Vietnamese children. I worked on the data science team.