Vietnamese student lands lead-author paper at AI conference that rejects 73% of submissions

VNExpress - Oct 18, 2026

A valedictorian of the elite computer science talent program at Hanoi University of Science and Technology has had papers accepted at two of the world's top conferences on machine learning and natural language processing.

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