no code implementations • 2 Mar 2024 • Quan Nguyen, Nishant A. Mehta
In a setting with $K$ total arms and at most $A$ available arms in each round over $T$ rounds, the best known upper bound is $O(K\sqrt{TA\ln{K}})$, obtained indirectly via minimizing internal sleeping regrets.
no code implementations • 18 Dec 2023 • Quan Nguyen, Huy Pham, Dung Dao
In this technical report, we present VinaLLaMA, an open-weight, state-of-the-art (SOTA) Large Language Model for the Vietnamese language, built upon LLaMA-2 with an additional 800 billion trained tokens.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2023 • Ruihan Yang, Zhuoqun Chen, Jianhan Ma, Chongyi Zheng, Yiyu Chen, Quan Nguyen, Xiaolong Wang
This paper introduces the Versatile Instructable Motion prior (VIM) - a Reinforcement Learning framework designed to incorporate a range of agile locomotion tasks suitable for advanced robotic applications.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2023 • Quan Nguyen, Emma Lejeune
These highly deformable materials can have heterogeneous material properties, and can experience heterogeneous deformations with or without underlying material heterogeneity.
1 code implementation • 1 May 2023 • Josh Gardner, Renzhe Yu, Quan Nguyen, Christopher Brooks, Rene Kizilcec
We also find that stacked ensembling provides no additional benefits to overall performance or fairness compared to either a local model or the zero-shot transfer procedure we tested.
1 code implementation • 11 Jan 2023 • Quan Nguyen, Nishant A. Mehta
We prove a minimax lower bound of $\Omega(K\sqrt{DSAH})$ on the regret of any learning algorithm and an instance-specific lower bound of $\Omega(\frac{K}{\lambda^2})$ in sample complexity for a class of uniformly-good cluster-then-learn algorithms.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2022 • Lana X. Garmire, Yijun Li, Qianhui Huang, Chuan Xu, Sarah Teichmann, Naftali Kaminski, Matteo Pellegrini, Quan Nguyen, Andrew E. Teschendorff
Deciphering cell type heterogeneity is crucial for systematically understanding tissue homeostasis and its dysregulation in diseases.
1 code implementation • 20 Nov 2022 • Quan Nguyen, Hieu H. Pham, Kok-Seng Wong, Phi Le Nguyen, Truong Thao Nguyen, Minh N. Do
FedDCT reduces the memory requirements and allows low-end devices to participate in FL.
1 code implementation • 21 Oct 2022 • Quan Nguyen, Kaiwen Wu, Jacob R. Gardner, Roman Garnett
Local optimization presents a promising approach to expensive, high-dimensional black-box optimization by sidestepping the need to globally explore the search space.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2022 • Quan Nguyen, Roman Garnett
Active search is a setting in adaptive experimental design where we aim to uncover members of rare, valuable class(es) subject to a budget constraint.
1 code implementation • 11 Jun 2021 • Quan Nguyen, Arghavan Modiri, Roman Garnett
Active search is a learning paradigm where we seek to identify as many members of a rare, valuable class as possible given a labeling budget.
no code implementations • 20 Mar 2021 • Quan Nguyen, Mallikarjuna R. Vallem, Bharat Vyakaranam, Ahmad Tbaileh, Xinda Ke, Nader Samaan
This paper proposes the modeling, control, and simulation of a grid-forming inverter-based PV-battery power plant that can be used as a black start unit.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2021 • Guillaume Bellegarda, Yiyu Chen, Zhuochen Liu, Quan Nguyen
Policies can be learned in only a few million time steps, even for challenging tasks of running over rough terrain with loads of over 100% of the nominal quadruped mass.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2020 • Guillaume Bellegarda, Chuong Nguyen, Quan Nguyen
In this paper, we consider a general task of jumping varying distances and heights for a quadrupedal robot in noisy environments, such as off of uneven terrain and with variable robot dynamics parameters.
no code implementations • 14 May 2020 • Quan Nguyen, Koushil Sreenath
We present a novel method of optimal robust control through quadratic programs that offers tracking stability while subject to input and state-based constraints as well as safety-critical constraints for nonlinear dynamical robotic systems in the presence of model uncertainty.
1 code implementation • 9 Apr 2020 • Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje, Michael Kong
Reasoning about the validity of the object states is challenging in concurrent smart contracts.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Programming Languages
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2019 • Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje, Michael Kong
The problem of peer selection, which randomly selects a peer from a set, is commonplace in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocols.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Data Structures and Algorithms
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2019 • Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje, Michael Kong, Alex Kampa, George Samman
Unlike StakeDag's DAG, x-DAG ensures that each new block has to have parent blocks from both Users and Validators to achieve more safety and liveness.
Cryptography and Security Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 5 Jul 2019 • Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje, Michael Kong, Alex Kampa, George Samman
We address a general model of trustless system in which participants are distinguished by their stake or trust: users and validators.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Cryptography and Security
no code implementations • 13 May 2019 • Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje
This paper presents a new framework, namely \emph{\onlay}, for scalable asynchronous distributed systems.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2018 • Sang-Min Choi, Jiho Park, Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje
We describe \emph{Fantom}, a framework for asynchronous distributed systems.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2018 • Sang-Min Choi, Jiho Park, Quan Nguyen, Andre Cronje, Kiyoung Jang, Hyunjoon Cheon, Yo-Sub Han, Byung-Ik Ahn
Each event block is signed by the hashes of the creating node and its $k$ peers.
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
no code implementations • 20 Feb 2017 • Quan Nguyen
Generative model has been one of the most common approaches for solving the Dialog State Tracking Problem with the capabilities to model the dialog hypotheses in an explicit manner.