Huy Q. Le
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Research Subjects
Huy Q. Le has a total of 46 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:
- Choong Seon Hong
Kyung Hee University
16 shared publications - Yu Qiao
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
10 shared publications - Eui-Nam Huh
Kyung Hee University
8 shared publications - Loc X. Nguyen
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
6 shared publications - Apurba Adhikary
Noakhali Science and Technology University
5 shared publications - Chaoning Zhang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
5 shared publications
Latest Publications
- Open Access
- 31 October 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Networked Humanoid Intelligence: Communication, Coordination, Collaboration, and Social Interaction
Humanoid robots are moving from laboratory platforms toward connected fleets that share workspaces, infrastructure, tasks, and knowledge with other robots and humans. As deployments grow, the operation and improvement of each humanoid depend on information exchanged across the network. However, existing research has largely studied humanoids as individual systems. This survey examines networked humanoid intelligence through four functions of information exchange: communication, coordination, collaboration, and social intelligence with human interaction. We first establish the foundations of networked humanoid systems, define the question addressed by each function, and connect them through a common factory scenario. We review the literature along six dimensions: interaction architecture, exchanged information, physical coupling, operating timescale, system scale, and embodiment. We separate results obtained with physical and simulated humanoids from those based on other robotic platforms or disembodied agents, because the latter do not fully capture humanoid-specific constraints such as balance, whole-body motion, contact, and physical interaction. We examine hardware, datasets, and benchmarks, and distinguish risks handled locally from those networking introduces, such as stale information or unsafe knowledge propagation. Finally, we identify open problems in control-aware networking, compact body-centric messages, physically grounded coordination, network-and embodiment-aware knowledge sharing, fleet-level social consistency, and accountable human oversight.
- 31 October 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Open AccessNetworked Humanoid Intelligence: Communication, Coordination, Collaboration, and Social Interaction
Humanoid robots are moving from laboratory platforms toward connected fleets that share workspaces, infrastructure, tasks, and knowledge with other robots and humans. As deployments grow, the operation and improvement of each humanoid depend on information exchanged across the network. However, existing research has largely studied humanoids as individual systems. This survey examines networked humanoid intelligence through four functions of information exchange: communication, coordination, collaboration, and social intelligence with human interaction. We first establish the foundations of networked humanoid systems, define the question addressed by each function, and connect them through a common factory scenario. We review the literature along six dimensions: interaction architecture, exchanged information, physical coupling, operating timescale, system scale, and embodiment. We separate results obtained with physical and simulated humanoids from those based on other robotic platforms or disembodied agents, because the latter do not fully capture humanoid-specific constraints such as balance, whole-body motion, contact, and physical interaction. We examine hardware, datasets, and benchmarks, and distinguish risks handled locally from those networking introduces, such as stale information or unsafe knowledge propagation. Finally, we identify open problems in control-aware networking, compact body-centric messages, physically grounded coordination, network-and embodiment-aware knowledge sharing, fleet-level social consistency, and accountable human oversight.
- 14 October 2026
- Published by Elsevier in Pattern Recognition
- Vol. 183
Mitigating domain shift in federated learning via intra- and inter-domain prototypes
- 14 October 2026
- Published by Elsevier in Pattern Recognition
- Vol. 183
Mitigating domain shift in federated learning via intra- and inter-domain prototypes
- Open Access
- 8 September 2026
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Computing Surveys
A Survey on Foundation Models for Personalized Federated Intelligence
The rise of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok, has reshaped the AI landscape. As prominent instances of foundational models (FMs), they exhibit remarkable capabilities in generating human-like content, pushing the boundaries towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, their large-scale nature, privacy sensitivity, and substantial computational demands pose significant challenges for personalized customization for end users. To bridge this gap, we present the vision of artificial personalized intelligence (API), which focuses on adapting FMs to individual users while ensuring privacy. As a central enabler of API, we propose personalized federated intelligence (PFI), a new paradigm that not only integrates the privacy benefits of federated learning (FL) with the generalization capabilities of FMs but also places personalization at its core. To this end, we first survey recent advances in FL and FMs that lay the foundation for PFI. We then explore core stages of the PFI pipeline: efficient personalization at the edge, trustworthy adaptation, and adaptive refinement via retrieval-augmented generation. Finally, we highlight future directions for enabling PFI. Overall, this survey aims to lay a foundation for the development of API as a complementary direction to AGI, with PFI as a key enabling paradigm.
- 8 September 2026
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Computing Surveys
Open AccessA Survey on Foundation Models for Personalized Federated Intelligence
The rise of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok, has reshaped the AI landscape. As prominent instances of foundational models (FMs), they exhibit remarkable capabilities in generating human-like content, pushing the boundaries towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, their large-scale nature, privacy sensitivity, and substantial computational demands pose significant challenges for personalized customization for end users. To bridge this gap, we present the vision of artificial personalized intelligence (API), which focuses on adapting FMs to individual users while ensuring privacy. As a central enabler of API, we propose personalized federated intelligence (PFI), a new paradigm that not only integrates the privacy benefits of federated learning (FL) with the generalization capabilities of FMs but also places personalization at its core. To this end, we first survey recent advances in FL and FMs that lay the foundation for PFI. We then explore core stages of the PFI pipeline: efficient personalization at the edge, trustworthy adaptation, and adaptive refinement via retrieval-augmented generation. Finally, we highlight future directions for enabling PFI. Overall, this survey aims to lay a foundation for the development of API as a complementary direction to AGI, with PFI as a key enabling paradigm.
- Open Access
- 5 September 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Self-Evolving AI for Humanoids: Mechanisms, Safety, and Evaluation of Post-Deployment Self-Improvement
Humanoid robots are becoming an important part of embodied artificial intelligence, driven by advances in reinforcement learning for locomotion, world models for prediction, and vision-language-action models for general control. However, most of these systems remain static after deployment. A policy is trained offline for a fixed objective and then frozen, even though the tasks, environments, and robot bodies keep drifting over time. An emerging paradigm of self-evolving agents aims to address this problem by allowing systems to improve from their own post-deployment experience. Since most existing studies focus on disembodied software agents, this survey examines how self-evolution changes when an agent has a physical body. We first define self-evolution for humanoids and represent a deployed robot using a state tuple that includes its policy, perception, memory, workflow, and body. This state is updated by an evolution operator in a slow outer loop with a lifelong objective. We then organize the literature into four complementary mechanisms of self-evolution, presented in increasing order of autonomy: self-learning, self-adaptation, selfoptimization, and self-generation. Since changes to a humanoid can introduce physical hazards, we treat safety and uncertainty as key design dimensions of the evolution operator, and further formulate admissible evolution as a constraint enforced by a worldmodel verification gate within a human-oversight envelope. Finally, we present that evaluation should track the robot's evolving trajectory rather than a fixed checkpoint, and we identify the lack of a benchmark designed specifically for self-evolving humanoids. Moreover, we outline open challenges spanning AI algorithms, on-board systems, and governance.
- 5 September 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Open AccessSelf-Evolving AI for Humanoids: Mechanisms, Safety, and Evaluation of Post-Deployment Self-Improvement
Humanoid robots are becoming an important part of embodied artificial intelligence, driven by advances in reinforcement learning for locomotion, world models for prediction, and vision-language-action models for general control. However, most of these systems remain static after deployment. A policy is trained offline for a fixed objective and then frozen, even though the tasks, environments, and robot bodies keep drifting over time. An emerging paradigm of self-evolving agents aims to address this problem by allowing systems to improve from their own post-deployment experience. Since most existing studies focus on disembodied software agents, this survey examines how self-evolution changes when an agent has a physical body. We first define self-evolution for humanoids and represent a deployed robot using a state tuple that includes its policy, perception, memory, workflow, and body. This state is updated by an evolution operator in a slow outer loop with a lifelong objective. We then organize the literature into four complementary mechanisms of self-evolution, presented in increasing order of autonomy: self-learning, self-adaptation, selfoptimization, and self-generation. Since changes to a humanoid can introduce physical hazards, we treat safety and uncertainty as key design dimensions of the evolution operator, and further formulate admissible evolution as a constraint enforced by a worldmodel verification gate within a human-oversight envelope. Finally, we present that evaluation should track the robot's evolving trajectory rather than a fixed checkpoint, and we identify the lack of a benchmark designed specifically for self-evolving humanoids. Moreover, we outline open challenges spanning AI algorithms, on-board systems, and governance.
- Open Access
- 29 July 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
A Survey on Self-evolving Agents for Wireless Networks
Artificial intelligence has become the principal enabler of next-generation wireless networks, driving radio access optimization, network slicing, and autonomous management toward the vision of AI-native 6G. However, most systems remain static after deployment, updated only through periodic retraining, regardless the channels, mobility, traffic demand, and user behavior drift continuously. Self-evolving agents-systems that continuously rewrite their own policies, memory, tools, coordination workflows, and architecture from post-deployment experience, have emerged as a response to this distribution drift, but the concept remains loosely defined. Existing surveys of AI-native RAN, foundation models, and multi-agent systems treat adaptation as offline retraining rather than autonomous, lifelong evolution. This paper provides the first comprehensive treatment of self-evolving agents for wireless networks. We give self-evolution a formal and operational definition: a decomposed evolution operator over five system components, a two-timescale separation of fast control from slow evolution, a lifelong utility objective. Then, we propose a telecom-native taxonomy of five evolutionary dimensions, examine the three engines that drive evolution, and specialize the framework to core wireless domains. The paper provides a roadmap for researchers and practitioners seeking to develop self-evolving wireless intelligence, then identifies opportunities and challenges that can guide research toward efficient, safe, and trustworthy autonomous network evolution.
- 29 July 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Open AccessA Survey on Self-evolving Agents for Wireless Networks
Artificial intelligence has become the principal enabler of next-generation wireless networks, driving radio access optimization, network slicing, and autonomous management toward the vision of AI-native 6G. However, most systems remain static after deployment, updated only through periodic retraining, regardless the channels, mobility, traffic demand, and user behavior drift continuously. Self-evolving agents-systems that continuously rewrite their own policies, memory, tools, coordination workflows, and architecture from post-deployment experience, have emerged as a response to this distribution drift, but the concept remains loosely defined. Existing surveys of AI-native RAN, foundation models, and multi-agent systems treat adaptation as offline retraining rather than autonomous, lifelong evolution. This paper provides the first comprehensive treatment of self-evolving agents for wireless networks. We give self-evolution a formal and operational definition: a decomposed evolution operator over five system components, a two-timescale separation of fast control from slow evolution, a lifelong utility objective. Then, we propose a telecom-native taxonomy of five evolutionary dimensions, examine the three engines that drive evolution, and specialize the framework to core wireless domains. The paper provides a roadmap for researchers and practitioners seeking to develop self-evolving wireless intelligence, then identifies opportunities and challenges that can guide research toward efficient, safe, and trustworthy autonomous network evolution.
- Open Access
- 29 July 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
A Comprehensive Survey on Semantic Communication in Non-terrestrial Networks: Architectures, Methodologies, and Challenges
The sixth-generation wireless networks are envisioned to deliver ubiquitous, seamless, and intelligent connectivity that reaches far beyond the limits of terrestrial infrastructure. Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are central to this vision, extending coverage to underserved regions, remote terrain, and disaster zones that terrestrial deployment cannot economically reach. However, NTN architecture faces numerous limitations: severe path loss over long distances, long propagation delays, large and time-varying Doppler shifts, limited visibility windows, and tight on-board energy and computing budgets. Semantic communication (SemCom), which conveys the meaning of data rather than its raw bit-level representation, is unusually well matched to these conditions: extreme compression rate for taskoriented eases bandwidth scarcity, deep joint source-channel coding prevents the cliff effect due to low signal-to-noise ratio, and generative-AI reconstructs content from sparse cues that survive rain-faded or blocked links. This observation, that each NTN limitation maps onto a SemCom property that addresses it, motivates our survey. We first walk through the NTN limitations one by one, pairing each with the SemCom design choices that complement it, then we organize the literature along three axes: the NTN platform, the semantic methodology, and the supporting techniques, and follow this with platform-by-platform deep dives on satellite-centric, UAV/HAPS-centric, and integrated SAGIN systems. The survey concludes by identifying open research problems, gaps in existing standards, and future directions, including the application of foundation models, energy-aware scheduling, and quantum-assisted SemCom for deep space communication.
- 29 July 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Open AccessA Comprehensive Survey on Semantic Communication in Non-terrestrial Networks: Architectures, Methodologies, and Challenges
The sixth-generation wireless networks are envisioned to deliver ubiquitous, seamless, and intelligent connectivity that reaches far beyond the limits of terrestrial infrastructure. Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) are central to this vision, extending coverage to underserved regions, remote terrain, and disaster zones that terrestrial deployment cannot economically reach. However, NTN architecture faces numerous limitations: severe path loss over long distances, long propagation delays, large and time-varying Doppler shifts, limited visibility windows, and tight on-board energy and computing budgets. Semantic communication (SemCom), which conveys the meaning of data rather than its raw bit-level representation, is unusually well matched to these conditions: extreme compression rate for taskoriented eases bandwidth scarcity, deep joint source-channel coding prevents the cliff effect due to low signal-to-noise ratio, and generative-AI reconstructs content from sparse cues that survive rain-faded or blocked links. This observation, that each NTN limitation maps onto a SemCom property that addresses it, motivates our survey. We first walk through the NTN limitations one by one, pairing each with the SemCom design choices that complement it, then we organize the literature along three axes: the NTN platform, the semantic methodology, and the supporting techniques, and follow this with platform-by-platform deep dives on satellite-centric, UAV/HAPS-centric, and integrated SAGIN systems. The survey concludes by identifying open research problems, gaps in existing standards, and future directions, including the application of foundation models, energy-aware scheduling, and quantum-assisted SemCom for deep space communication.
- Open Access
- 24 April 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Mitigating Domain Shift in Federated Learning via Intra- and Inter-Domain Prototypes
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a decentralized machine learning technique, allowing clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing private data. However, most FL studies ignore the crucial challenge of heterogeneous domains where each client has a distinct feature distribution, which is popular in real-world scenarios. Prototype learning, which leverages the mean feature vectors within the same classes, has become a prominent solution for federated learning under domain shift. However, existing federated prototype learning methods focus soley on inter-domain prototypes and neglect intra-domain perspectives. In this work, we introduce a novel federated prototype learning method, namely I2PFL, which incorporates Intra-domain and Inter-domain Prototypes, to mitigate domain shift from both perspectives and learn a generalized global model across multiple domains in federated learning. To construct intra-domain prototypes, we propose feature alignment with MixUp-based augmented prototypes to capture the diversity within local domains and enhance the generalization of local features. Additionally, we introduce a reweighting mechanism for inter-domain prototypes to generate generalized prototypes that reduce domain shift while providing inter-domain knowledge across multiple clients. Extensive experiments on the Digits, Office-10, and PACS datasets illustrate the superior performance of our method compared to other baselines.
- 24 April 2026
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Open AccessMitigating Domain Shift in Federated Learning via Intra- and Inter-Domain Prototypes
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a decentralized machine learning technique, allowing clients to train a global model collaboratively without sharing private data. However, most FL studies ignore the crucial challenge of heterogeneous domains where each client has a distinct feature distribution, which is popular in real-world scenarios. Prototype learning, which leverages the mean feature vectors within the same classes, has become a prominent solution for federated learning under domain shift. However, existing federated prototype learning methods focus soley on inter-domain prototypes and neglect intra-domain perspectives. In this work, we introduce a novel federated prototype learning method, namely I2PFL, which incorporates Intra-domain and Inter-domain Prototypes, to mitigate domain shift from both perspectives and learn a generalized global model across multiple domains in federated learning. To construct intra-domain prototypes, we propose feature alignment with MixUp-based augmented prototypes to capture the diversity within local domains and enhance the generalization of local features. Additionally, we introduce a reweighting mechanism for inter-domain prototypes to generate generalized prototypes that reduce domain shift while providing inter-domain knowledge across multiple clients. Extensive experiments on the Digits, Office-10, and PACS datasets illustrate the superior performance of our method compared to other baselines.
- 1 January 2026
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- Vol. 44, 6085-6102
Toward Communication-Efficient Adversarial Federated Learning for Robust Edge Intelligence
- 1 January 2026
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
- Vol. 44, 6085-6102
Toward Communication-Efficient Adversarial Federated Learning for Robust Edge Intelligence
- Open Access
Towards Artificial General or Personalized Intelligence? A Survey on Foundation Models for Personalized Federated Intelligence
The rise of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Grok-3, has reshaped the artificial intelligence landscape. As prominent examples of foundational models (FMs) built on LLMs, these models exhibit remarkable capabilities in generating human-like content, bringing us closer to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, their large-scale nature, sensitivity to privacy concerns, and substantial computational demands present significant challenges to personalized customization for end users. To bridge this gap, this paper presents the vision of artificial personalized intelligence (API), focusing on adapting these powerful models to meet the specific needs and preferences of users while maintaining privacy and efficiency. Specifically, this paper proposes personalized federated intelligence (PFI), which integrates the privacy-preserving advantages of federated learning (FL) with the zero-shot generalization capabilities of FMs, enabling personalized, efficient, and privacy-protective deployment at the edge. We first review recent advances in both FL and FMs, and discuss the potential of leveraging FMs to enhance federated systems. We then present the key motivations behind realizing PFI and explore promising opportunities in this space, including efficient PFI, trustworthy PFI, and PFI empowered by retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Finally, we outline key challenges and future research directions for deploying FM-powered FL systems at the edge with improved personalization, computational efficiency, and privacy guarantees. Overall, this survey aims to lay the groundwork for the development of API as a complement to AGI, with a particular focus on PFI as a key enabling technique.
Open AccessTowards Artificial General or Personalized Intelligence? A Survey on Foundation Models for Personalized Federated Intelligence
The rise of large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Grok-3, has reshaped the artificial intelligence landscape. As prominent examples of foundational models (FMs) built on LLMs, these models exhibit remarkable capabilities in generating human-like content, bringing us closer to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). However, their large-scale nature, sensitivity to privacy concerns, and substantial computational demands present significant challenges to personalized customization for end users. To bridge this gap, this paper presents the vision of artificial personalized intelligence (API), focusing on adapting these powerful models to meet the specific needs and preferences of users while maintaining privacy and efficiency. Specifically, this paper proposes personalized federated intelligence (PFI), which integrates the privacy-preserving advantages of federated learning (FL) with the zero-shot generalization capabilities of FMs, enabling personalized, efficient, and privacy-protective deployment at the edge. We first review recent advances in both FL and FMs, and discuss the potential of leveraging FMs to enhance federated systems. We then present the key motivations behind realizing PFI and explore promising opportunities in this space, including efficient PFI, trustworthy PFI, and PFI empowered by retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Finally, we outline key challenges and future research directions for deploying FM-powered FL systems at the edge with improved personalization, computational efficiency, and privacy guarantees. Overall, this survey aims to lay the groundwork for the development of API as a complement to AGI, with a particular focus on PFI as a key enabling technique.
- Top Cited Papers
- 24 April 2025
- Published by Elsevier in Information Fusion
- Vol. 122
Cross-modal prototype based multimodal federated learning under severely missing modality
- 24 April 2025
- Published by Elsevier in Information Fusion
- Vol. 122
Top Cited PapersCross-modal prototype based multimodal federated learning under severely missing modality