Thao Nguyen

PhD student, University of Washington, Seattle

Joined

September 2020

Names

Thao Nguyen (Preferred)

Emails

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Career & Education History

PhD student

University of Washington, Seattle (uw.edu)

2021 – 2026

Visiting Researcher

Meta (meta.com)

2023 – 2025

AI Resident

Google (google.com)

2019 – 2021

Undergrad student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Ludwig Schmidt

2021 – Present

PhD Advisor

Sewoong Oh

2021 – Present

Expertise

data-centric AI

trustworthy machine learning

2017 – 2021

Publications

Concept-Aware Batch Sampling Improves Language-Image Pretraining
Adhiraj Ghosh, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen, Matteo Farina, Mehdi Cherti, Jenia Jitsev, Sewoong Oh, Elisa Ricci, Ludwig Schmidt, Matthias Bethge
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
NaturalThoughts: Selecting and Distilling Reasoning Traces for General Reasoning Tasks
Yang Li, Youssef Emad, Karthik Padthe, Jack Lanchantin, Weizhe Yuan, Thao Nguyen, Jason E Weston, Shang-Wen Li, Dong Wang, Ilia Kulikov, Xian Li
- NeurIPS 2025 ER Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Recycling the Web: A Method to Enhance Pre-training Data Quality and Quantity for Language Models
Thao Nguyen, Yang Li, Olga Golovneva, Luke Zettlemoyer, Sewoong Oh, Ludwig Schmidt, Xian Li
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
DataComp-LM: In search of the next generation of training sets for language models
Jeffrey Li, Alex Fang, Georgios Smyrnis, Maor Ivgi, Matt Jordan, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Hritik Bansal, Etash Kumar Guha, Sedrick Keh, Kushal Arora, Saurabh Garg, Rui Xin, Niklas Muennighoff, Reinhard Heckel, Jean Mercat, Mayee F Chen, Suchin Gururangan, Mitchell Wortsman, Alon Albalak, Yonatan Bitton et al. (39 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multilingual Diversity Improves Vision-Language Representations
Thao Nguyen, Matthew Wallingford, Sebastin Santy, Wei-Chiu Ma, Sewoong Oh, Ludwig Schmidt, Pang Wei Koh, Ranjay Krishna
- NeurIPS 2024 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets
Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Gabriel Ilharco, Alex Fang, Jonathan Hayase, Georgios Smyrnis, Thao Nguyen, Ryan Marten, Mitchell Wortsman, Dhruba Ghosh, Jieyu Zhang, Eyal Orgad, Rahim Entezari, Giannis Daras, Sarah M Pratt, Vivek Ramanujan, Yonatan Bitton, Kalyani Marathe, Stephen Mussmann, Richard Vencu, Mehdi Cherti et al. (14 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Improving multimodal datasets with image captioning
Thao Nguyen, Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Gabriel Ilharco, Sewoong Oh, Ludwig Schmidt
- NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks Poster
- Readers: Everyone
On the Connection between Pre-training Data Diversity and Fine-tuning Robustness
Vivek Ramanujan, Thao Nguyen, Sewoong Oh, Ali Farhadi, Ludwig Schmidt
- NeurIPS 2023 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Classifier-free guidance makes image captioning models more descriptive
Simon Kornblith, Lala Li, Zirui Wang, Thao Nguyen
- Published: 06 Mar 2023, Last Modified: 01 May 2023
- MRL 2023
- Readers: Everyone
On the Origins of the Block Structure Phenomenon in Neural Network Representations
Thao Nguyen, Maithra Raghu, Simon Kornblith
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone

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