Local SGD paper accepted at AAAI 2026
New convergence results for Local SGD under heterogeneous data.
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A research group in artificial intelligence and data science.
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View allSeminar: Convergence of SGD in Non-Convex Optimization
Group seminar on convergence bounds for SGD with non-convex objectives.
Welcome Vo Gia Han to the group
A new master student joins the Open Science Toolkit project.
Đặng Hoàng Nam bảo vệ thành công luận án tiến sĩ
Luận án về học tăng cường hiệu quả dữ liệu cho điều khiển robot.
Nhóm Athena tuyển nghiên cứu sinh và học viên cao học
Mở đăng ký cho các hướng học máy, thị giác máy tính và robot.
Featured papers
View allConvergence of Local SGD under Heterogeneous Data
AAAI 2026 - Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
@inproceedings{pham2026localsgd, title = {Convergence of Local SGD under Heterogeneous Data}, author = {Pham, Quoc Anh and Tran, Minh Khoa and Rossi, Elena}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, year = {2026} }Self-Supervised Depth Estimation for Planetary Terrain
CVPRW 2025 - IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops
@inproceedings{chau2025selfsupervised, title = {Self-Supervised Depth Estimation for Planetary Terrain}, author = {Nguyễn Bảo Châu and Lê Thu Hà and Marco Bianchi}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops}, year = {2025}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00002} }
Active projects
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Vision for Autonomous Exploration Robots
Multimodal perception that lets robots navigate unknown terrain safely.
- computer vision
- autonomous robots
Open Science Toolkit
Open-source tools and small language models for reproducible research.
- open science
- natural language processing