Vision for Autonomous Exploration Robots
Multimodal perception that lets robots navigate unknown terrain safely.
- computer vision
- autonomous robots
Research interests
- học máy
- tối ưu hoá
- học biểu diễn
Professor and founding head of Athena Lab. Works on machine learning theory, optimization and representation learning.
Papers
Convergence 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} }Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation
JMLR - Journal of Machine Learning Research
@article{dang2025samplerl, title = {Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Robot Manipulation}, author = {Dang, Hoang Nam and Tran, Minh Khoa}, journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research}, volume = {26}, year = {2025} }Lightweight Language Models for Open Scientific Workflows
arXiv - arXiv preprint
@misc{han2024lightweight, title = {Lightweight Language Models for Open Scientific Workflows}, author = {Võ Gia Hân and Trần Minh Khoa and Priya Nair}, howpublished = {arXiv preprint}, year = {2024}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00004} }A Spectral View of Attention: Rank Collapse and Remedies
TMLR - Transactions on Machine Learning Research
@article{khoa2023spectral, title = {A Spectral View of Attention: Rank Collapse and Remedies}, author = {Trần Minh Khoa and Đặng Hoàng Nam and Lukas Meier}, journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research}, year = {2023}, url = {https://doi.org/10.0000/example.tmlr.2023.07} }
Projects
Laboratory Automation Robotics
Sample-efficient reinforcement learning for robot arms handling lab samples.
- reinforcement learning
- robotics
Open Science Toolkit
Open-source tools and small language models for reproducible research.
- open science
- natural language processing
News
Local SGD paper accepted at AAAI 2026
New convergence results for Local SGD under heterogeneous data.
Seminar: 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.
Open Science Toolkit project receives funding
The Example Open Science Fund supports the project for two years.