About
Welcome to my homepage! I’m An Nguyen The (in Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thế An), and I am currently a research resident at FPT Software AI Center where I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Tan Nguyen and Professor Thieu Vo. Before that, I graduated as valedictorian from Hanoi University of Science and Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Research Interests
My current research focuses on developing Metanetworks - neural functional architecture preserving functional equivalence. Besides, I’m also working the fundamentals of Transformer models, with a particular emphasis on improving their efficiency and robustness. Additionally, I have experience on Continual Learning and Mixture of Experts. I am also open to diversifying my research to various aspects in the future.
(Looking for PhD in CS) I am actively seeking PhD positions in Computer Science for the upcoming academic year and am excited to contribute to innovative research and advancements in the field.
Selected Publications
(*) denotes equal contribution.
Properties of Tokens in Self-Attention and Effects of Positional Encoding
Duy-Tung Pham*, An Nguyen The*, Hoang V. Tran, Nhan Phu Chung, Xin T. Tong, Thieu N. Vo, Tan Minh Nguyen
Advances in NeurIPS, 2025
Equivariant Polynomial Functional Networks
Thieu N. Vo*, Hoang V. Tran*, Tho Tran Huu*, An Nguyen The, Thanh Tran, Minh-Khoi Nguyen-Nhat, Duy-Tung Pham, Tan Minh Nguyen
International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2025
Adaptive Prompting for Continual Relation Extraction: A Within-Task Variance Perspective
Minh Le*, Tien Ngoc Luu*, An Nguyen The*, Thanh-Thien Le, Trang Nguyen, Thanh Tung Nguyen, Linh Ngo Van, Thien Huu Nguyen
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2025 (Oral)
Equivariant Neural Functional Networks for Transformers
Hoang V. Tran*, Thieu N. Vo*, An Nguyen The*, Tho Tran Huu, Minh-Khoi Nguyen-Nhat, Thanh Tran, Duy-Tung Pham, Tan Minh Nguyen
International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2025
Mixture of Experts Meets Prompt-Based Continual Learning
Minh Le, An Nguyen The*, Huy Nguyen*, Trang Nguyen*, Trang Pham*, Linh Van Ngo, Nhat Ho
Advances in NeurIPS, 2024
Monomial Matrix Group Equivariant Neural Functional Networks
Hoang V. Tran*, Thieu N. Vo*, Tho H. Tran, An Nguyen The, Tan Minh Nguyen
Advances in NeurIPS, 2024
Selected Preprints
Quasi-Equivariant Metanetworks
Under review
Equivariant Metanetworks for Mixture-of-Experts Weights
Under review