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Hoang-Bao Le

PhD Student specializing in Information Retrieval & Computer Vision, focusing on retrieval, multimodal models, and efficient inference. Based in Dublin, Ireland, I am currently at the ADAPT Centre, School of Computing, Dublin City University, under the supervision of Prof. Cathal Gurrin and A.Prof. Liting Zhou. I hold an honors bachelor's degree from Ho Chi Minh University of Science - Vietnam National University (HCMUS-VNU) under the supervision of A. Prof. Binh T. Nguyen and Dr. Man M. Ngo, completed in November 2023.

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Please visit my Google Scholar for a full list of publications and GitHub for source codes.

Selected Publications

UNION: A Lightweight Target Representation for Efficient Zero-Shot Image-Guided Retrieval with Optional Textual Queries
Hoang-Bao Le, Allie-Tran, Binh T. Nguyen, Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin — ICDM Workshop, 2025 · Link · PDF
ExGra-Med: Extended Context Graph Alignment for Medical Vision-Language Models
Duy MH Nguyen, Nghiem T Diep, Trung Q Nguyen, Hoang-Bao Le, Tai Nguyen, Tien Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Pengtao Xie, Roger Wattenhofer, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Mathias Niepert — NEURIPS, 2025 · Link · PDF
Enriched Instruction-Following Graph Alignment for Efficient Medical Vision-Language Models
Duy MH Nguyen, Nghiem T Diep, Trung Q Nguyen, Hoang-Bao Le, Tai Nguyen, Tien Nguyen, TrungTin Nguyen, Nhat Ho, Pengtao Xie, Roger Wattenhofer, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Mathias Niepert — ICML Workshop, 2025 · PDF
Vision Projector: Improving Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval at Inference
Hoang-Bao Le, Allie-Tran, Binh T. Nguyen, Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin — CBMI, 2025 · Link · PDF
SEND: A Simple and Efficient Noise Detection Algorithm for Vietnamese Real Estate Posts
Khanh Quoc Tran, An Tran-Hoai Le, An Trong Nguyen, Tung Tran Nguyen Doan, Son Huynh Thanh, Bao Le Hoang, Hoang Nguyen Minh, Triet Minh Thai, Hoang Le Huy, Dang T. Huynh, Binh T. Nguyen, Nhi Y. T. Ho, Trung T. Nguyen — PACLIC, 2022 · PDF
A New Approach for Vietnamese Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Bao Hoang Le, Hoang Minh Nguyen, Nhi Kieu-Phuong Nguyen, Binh T. Nguyen — KSE, 2022 · PDF

Awards & Honors

  • Second Place, Grand Challenge INOVA, ICME Conference — 2025
  • Second Place, Irish Collegiate Programming Contest (IrICPC) — 2025
  • Runner-up Best Paper Award, KSE Conference — 2022
  • 1st Runner-Up Best Paper Award in Computing, PACLIC Conference — 2022
  • Odon Vallet Scholarship, for undergraduate students in Vietnam — 2022
  • Best Intern Award, AISIA Research Lab — 2022