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.

Google Scholar · scholar.google.com GitHub · github.com/baohl00 ORCID · orcid.org Resume · PDF

Selected Publications

Each link shows where it goes. Full list on Google Scholar.

2026

ACCV 2026 Workshop · LFSD ERCLIP: Small-Data Adaptation of CLIP for Free-Length Image-Text Retrieval

Hoang-Bao Le, Allie Tran, Binh T. Nguyen, Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin

arXiv · arxiv.org/abs/2610.29939 PDF · arxiv.org HTML · arxiv.org

MMM 2026 FIGROTD: A Friendly-to-Handle Dataset for Image Guided Retrieval with Optional Text

Hoang-Bao Le, Allie Tran, Binh T. Nguyen, Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin

arXiv · arxiv.org/abs/2511.22247 PDF · arxiv.org Code & Data · github.com

2025

NeurIPS 2025 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

arXiv · arxiv.org/abs/2410.02615 PDF · arxiv.org Project · exgra-med.github.io

ICDM 2025 Workshop 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

PDF · icdm-mmsr.github.io Code · github.com

CBMI 2025 Vision Projector: Improving Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval at Inference

Hoang-Bao Le, Allie Tran, Binh T. Nguyen, Liting Zhou, Cathal Gurrin

PDF · doras.dcu.ie Code · github.com

ICML 2025 Workshop 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

OpenReview · openreview.net PDF · openreview.net

2022

PACLIC 2022 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

ACL Anthology · aclanthology.org PDF · aclanthology.org

KSE 2022 A New Approach for Vietnamese Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Bao Hoang Le, Hoang Minh Nguyen, Nhi Kieu-Phuong Nguyen, Binh T. Nguyen

IEEE Xplore · ieeexplore.ieee.org

Awards & Honors

First Place, Alibaba Analytics Cup, CIKM Conference — 2025
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

News

Oct 21, 2026🎉 ERCLIP, small-data adaptation of CLIP for free-length image-text retrieval, accepted at the LFSD Workshop @ ACCV 2026. Preprint on arXiv.
Oct 29, 2025🎉 FIGROTD, a friendly dataset for IGROT, accepted at MMM 2026!
Sep 18, 2025🎉 ExGra-Med accepted at NeurIPS 2025!
Sep 10, 2025🎉 UNION for Image Guided Retrieval with Optional Text accepted at the ICDM Workshop.
Jul 7–11, 2025🇨🇭 ELLIS Summer School on Machine Learning & AI for Health at EPFL.
Jun 5, 2025🎉 My team won 2nd place in the INOVA Challenge at ICME.
Jan 17, 2024I started my PhD journey at Dublin City University.

Contact

School of Computing, Dublin City University

Email: bao [dot] le2 [at] mail [dot] dcu [dot] ie
ORCID: 0009-0000-2496-4347
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hoangbaole
GitHub: github.com/baohl00