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Minwoo Kang

5 accepted papers

2026

Factor-Wise Homogeneity of Slot-Attention for Continual Object-Centric Learning

ICML 2026poster

While Object-Centric Learning has shown great promise in modular perception, its extension to Continual Learning remains underexplored. In this work, we observe that Slot Attention exhibits a distinctive behavior: it organizes latent representations into small and separated regions, each of which pr…

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2026

Layer-Centric Factors of Variation Disentanglement for Task- and Model-Agnostic Generalization

ICML 2026poster

Disentanglement learning aims to separate the underlying factors of variation (FoV) to improve generalization. However, most FoV-based latent-vector-centric methods impose objective-driven constraints at a bottleneck, and it is difficult to translate disentanglement into consistent gains on downstre…

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2025

Language Model Fine-Tuning on Scaled Survey Data for Predicting Distributions of Public Opinions

ACL 2025long

Large language models (LLMs) present novel opportunities in public opinion research by predicting survey responses in advance during the early stages of survey design. Prior methods steer LLMs via descriptions of subpopulations as LLMs’ input prompt, yet such prompt engineering approaches have strug…

2025

Puzzled by Puzzles: When Vision-Language Models Can’t Take a Hint

EMNLP 2025

Rebus puzzles, visual riddles that encode language through imagery, spatial arrangement, and symbolic substitution, pose a unique challenge to current vision-language models (VLMs). Unlike traditional image captioning or question answering tasks, rebus solving requires multimodal abstraction, symbol

2024

Virtual Personas for Language Models via an Anthology of Backstories

EMNLP 2024main

Large language models (LLMs) are trained from vast repositories of text authored by millions of distinct authors, reflecting an enormous diversity of human traits. While these models bear the potential to be used as approximations of human subjects in behavioral studies, prior efforts have been limi…