← Search

Minju Kim

14 accepted papers

2026

EMBGUARD: Constructing Hazard-Aware Guardrails for Safe Planning in Embodied Agents

ICML 2026poster

MLLM-powered embodied agents deployed in real-world environments encounter physical hazards. However, existing approaches lack explicit mechanisms for identifying hazards and reasoning about action-conditioned risks, leading agents to either miss risky interactions or over-identify risks. To address…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Can You Share Your Story? Modeling Clients’ Metacognition and Openness for LLM Therapist Evaluation

ACL 2025finding

Understanding clients’ thoughts and beliefs is fundamental in counseling, yet current evaluations of LLM therapists often fail to assess this ability. Existing evaluation methods rely on client simulators that clearly disclose internal states to the therapist, making it difficult to determine whethe…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Do LLMs Have Distinct and Consistent Personality? TRAIT: Personality Testset designed for LLMs with Psychometrics

NAACL 2025findings

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their adaptation in various domains as conversational agents. We wonder: can personality tests be applied to these agents to analyze their behavior, similar to humans? We introduce TRAIT, a new benchmark consisting of 8K multi-choice qu…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2025

Leveraging Large Language Models for Active Merchant Non-player Characters

IJCAI 2025

We highlight two significant issues leading to the passivity of current merchant non-player characters (NPCs): pricing and communication. While immersive interactions with active NPCs have been a focus, price negotiations between merchant NPCs and players remain underexplored. First, passive pricing

2025

PRINCIPLES: Synthetic Strategy Memory for Proactive Dialogue Agents

EMNLP 2025

Dialogue agents based on large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in proactive dialogue, which requires effective strategy planning. However, existing approaches to strategy planning for proactive dialogue face several limitations: limited strategy coverage, preference bias in p

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ToolHaystack: Stress-Testing Tool-Augmented Language Models in Realistic Long-Term Interactions

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in using external tools to address user inquiries. However, most existing evaluations assume tool use in short contexts, offering limited insight into model behavior during realistic long-term interactions. To fill this gap, we intro

2025

Web-Shepherd: Advancing PRMs for Reinforcing Web Agents

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Web navigation is a unique domain that can automate many repetitive real-life tasks and is challenging as it requires long-horizon sequential decision making beyond typical multimodal large language model (MLLM) tasks. Yet, specialized reward models for web navigation that can be utilized during bot…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Cactus: Towards Psychological Counseling Conversations using Cognitive Behavioral Theory

EMNLP 2024finding

Recently, the demand for psychological counseling has significantly increased as more individuals express concerns about their mental health. This surge has accelerated efforts to improve the accessibility of counseling by using large language models (LLMs) as counselors. To ensure client privacy, t…

2024

Pearl: A Review-driven Persona-Knowledge Grounded Conversational Recommendation Dataset

ACL 2024findings

Conversational recommender systems are an emerging area that has garnered increasing interest in the community, especially with the advancements in large language models (LLMs) that enable sophisticated handling of conversational input. Despite the progress, the field still has many aspects left to…

2024

SELF-EXPERTISE: Knowledge-based Instruction Dataset Augmentation for a Legal Expert Language Model

NAACL 2024findings

The advent of instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) has significantly advanced the field of automatic instruction dataset augmentation. However, the method of generating instructions and outputs from inherent knowledge of LLM can unintentionally produce hallucinations — instances of generat…

2022

BotsTalk: Machine-sourced Framework for Automatic Curation of Large-scale Multi-skill Dialogue Datasets

EMNLP 2022main

To build open-domain chatbots that are able to use diverse communicative skills, we propose a novel framework BotsTalk, where multiple agents grounded to the specific target skills participate in a conversation to automatically annotate multi-skill dialogues. We further present Blended Skill BotsTal…

2022

Dual Task Framework for Improving Persona-Grounded Dialogue Dataset

AAAI 2022technical

This paper introduces a simple yet effective data-centric approach for the task of improving persona-conditioned dialogue agents. Prior model-centric approaches unquestioningly depend on the raw crowdsourced benchmark datasets such as Persona-Chat. In contrast, we aim to fix annotation artifacts in…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2021

GhostPose: Multi-view Pose Estimation of Transparent Objects for Robot Hand Grasping

IROS 2021poster

Pose estimation is a key challenge in robot manipulation and grasping task. Current object pose estimation approaches based on 3D models and depth sensor information have difficulties to handle transparent objects because of the limitation to capture the accurate depth information. To address these…

Cited by 23SourceScholar