Papers by Thanh-Thien Le

4 papers
SharpSeq: Empowering Continual Event Detection through Sharpness-Aware Sequential-task Learning (2024.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods for continual event detection suffer from catastrophic forgetting . a novel continual learning paradigm leveraging sharpness-aware minimization is needed .
Approach: They propose a continual learning paradigm that leverages sharpness-aware minimization and a generative model to balance training data distribution.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms existing methods on real-world datasets.
Realistic Evaluation of Toxicity in Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a large amount of data exposes large language models to toxicity and bias . prompt engineering can be easily bypassed with minimal prompt engineering.
Approach: They propose a dataset that uses manually crafted prompts to nullify protective layers of large language models.
Outcome: The proposed dataset shows that prompts can nullify protective layers of large language models.
Lifelong Event Detection via Optimal Transport (2024.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Continual event detection (CED) is a challenging task due to catastrophic forgetting, where learning new tasks hampers performance on previous ones.
Approach: They propose a method that leverages optimal transport principles to align the optimization of a classification module with the intrinsic nature of each class, as defined by their pre-trained language modeling.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on MAVEN and ACE datasets and is a pioneering solution in continual event detection.
ToVo: Toxicity Taxonomy via Voting (2025.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Existing toxic content detection models face limitations due to the closed-source nature of training data and the paucity of explanations for their evaluation mechanism.
Approach: They propose a mechanism that integrates voting and chain-of-thought processes to produce a high-quality open-source dataset for toxic content detection.
Outcome: The proposed model improves transparency and customizability while facilitating better fine-tuning for specific use cases.

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