--- title: "Hieu Tran — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Hieu Tran, Purdue University West Lafayette: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hieu Tran # Hieu Tran Hieu Tran has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/), [Zonghai Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zonghai-yao/), [Feiyun Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feiyun-ouyang/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046024857) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0067-0683) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046024857) · [35 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046024857) · [1,535 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046024857&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,460 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8556](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8556) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Hieu+Tran) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hieu+Tran) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hieu+Tran) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hieu+Tran) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2024–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2022–2026 · 1 paperEmployment since 2022 · Research Scientist*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Dallas** Richardson · United States 2018–2023 · 8 papersEducation 2018–2022 · Ph.D., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-dallas/) · [🎓**Ho Chi Minh City University of Science** Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam 2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ho-chi-minh-city-university-of-science/) · [🎓**Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City** Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam 2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vietnam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city/) · [🎓**University of Information Technology** Ho Chi Minh City · Vietnam 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-information-technology/) 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. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 7 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2025-rare-retrieval-augmented-reasoning-enhancement/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2024-distillation-contrastive-decoding-improving-llms/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2026-vietmix-naturally-occurring-parallel-corpus/)** *(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](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2026-exploiting-tree-structure-credit-assignment/)** *(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 ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100) arXiv:2211.05100 · no summary yet**BigScience Workshop et al.*2022 · 1,606 citations* 2. **[ViT5: Pretrained Text-to-Text Transformer for Vietnamese Language Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-srw.18/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Student Research Workshop · no summary yet**Long Phan et al.*2022 · 110 citations* 3. **[RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2025-rare-retrieval-augmented-reasoning-enhancement/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, et al.*2025 · 20 citations* 4. [**Distillation Contrastive Decoding: Improving LLMs Reasoning with Contrastive Decoding and Distillation arXiv:2402.14874**Phuc Phan, Hieu Tran, Long Phan*2024 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2024-distillation-contrastive-decoding-improving-llms/) 5. **[VietMix: A Naturally-Occurring Parallel Corpus and Augmentation Framework for Vietnamese-English Code-Mixed Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2026-vietmix-naturally-occurring-parallel-corpus/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/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 Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2026-exploiting-tree-structure-credit-assignment/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Hong yu*2026* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/) ×2 - [Zonghai Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zonghai-yao/) ×2 - [Feiyun Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feiyun-ouyang/) - [Huy Nghiem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huy-nghiem/) - [Junda Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junda-wang/) - [Long Phan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-phan/) - [Marine Carpuat](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marine-carpuat/) - [Shuo Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-han/) - [Wei Ai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ai/) - [Yifan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/) - [Zhichao Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/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)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/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 →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026