🧑‍🔬 Hieu Tran

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst Center · United States2024–2026 · 7 paperscurrent🏢MetaMenlo Park · United States2022–2026 · 1 paperEmployment since 2022 · Research Scientistcurrent🎓Purdue University West LafayetteWest Lafayette · United States2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓The University of Texas at DallasRichardson · United States2018–2023 · 8 papersEducation 2018–2022 · Ph.D., Computer Science🎓Ho Chi Minh City University of ScienceHo Chi Minh City · Vietnam2021 · 5 papers🎓Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh City · Vietnam2021 · 5 papers🎓University of Information TechnologyHo Chi Minh City · Vietnam2021 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models (2025 · 20 citations)
   Answering knowledge-heavy questions, especially in medicine, requires both several reasoning steps and facts that a pretrained model may lack or hold only in outdated form.
2. Distillation Contrastive Decoding: Improving LLMs Reasoning with Contrastive Decoding and Distillation (2024 · 7 citations)
   Contrastive Decoding (CD) improves LLM reasoning by subtracting a weak "amateur" model's token scores from those of a stronger "expert" model.
3. VietMix: A Naturally-Occurring Parallel Corpus and Augmentation Framework for Vietnamese-English Code-Mixed Machine Translation (2026 · 1 citation)
   Machine translation systems handle code-mixed text poorly, especially when Vietnamese and English blend within one sentence on social media.
4. Exploiting Tree Structure for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language Models (2026)
   Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves LLM reasoning, but a single outcome reward at the end of a long chain makes it hard to tell which tokens mattered.

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model ↗arXiv:2211.05100 · no summary yetBigScience Workshop et al.2022 · 1,606 citations
2. ViT5: Pretrained Text-to-Text Transformer for Vietnamese Language Generation ↗Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop · no summary yetLong Phan et al.2022 · 110 citations
3. RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, et al.2025 · 20 citations
4. Distillation Contrastive Decoding: Improving LLMs Reasoning with Contrastive Decoding and DistillationarXiv:2402.14874Phuc Phan, Hieu Tran, Long Phan2024 · 7 citations
5. VietMix: A Naturally-Occurring Parallel Corpus and Augmentation Framework for Vietnamese-English Code-Mixed Machine TranslationConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Hieu Tran, Phuong-Anh Nguyen-Le, Huy Nghiem, et al.2026 · 1 citation
6. Exploiting Tree Structure for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning with Large Language ModelsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsHieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Hong yu2026

🤝 Co-authors here

11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Hong Yu ×2
• Zonghai Yao ×2
• Feiyun Ouyang
• Huy Nghiem
• Junda Wang
• Long Phan
• Marine Carpuat
• Shuo Han
• Wei Ai
• Yifan Zhang
• Zhichao Yang

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2025
• Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL): EACL 2026
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026
• Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 1,460 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 299 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 1 November 2026

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