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Yeongmin Kim

17 accepted papers

2026

AC-Sampler: Accelerate and Correct Diffusion Sampling with Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm

ICLR 2026poster

Diffusion-based generative models have recently achieved state-of-the-art performance in high-fidelity image synthesis. These models learn a sequence of denoising transition kernels that gradually transform a simple prior distribution into a complex data distribution. However, requiring many transit…

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2026

AMiD: Knowledge Distillation for LLMs with $\alpha$-mixture Assistant Distribution

ICLR 2026poster

Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable improvement across many tasks but incur high computational and memory costs. Knowledge distillation (KD) mitigates this issue by transferring knowledge from a large teacher to a smaller student through distributional alignment. Pre…

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2026

Distillation of Large Language Models via Concrete Score Matching

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) deliver remarkable performance but are costly to deploy, motivating knowledge distillation (KD) for efficient inference. Existing KD objectives typically match student and teacher probabilities via softmax, which blurs valuable logit information. While direct logit disti…

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2026

Lookahead Sample Reward Guidance for Test-Time Scaling of Diffusion Models

ICML 2026spotlight

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong generative performance; however, generated samples often fail to fully align with human intent. This paper studies a test-time scaling method that enables sampling from regions with higher human-aligned reward values. Existing gradient guidance methods appro…

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2026

Semantic-aware Wasserstein Policy Regularization for Large Language Model Alignment

ICLR 2026poster

Large language models (LLMs) are commonly aligned with human preferences using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In this method, LLM policies are generally optimized through reward maximization with Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence regularization of the reference policy. However, KL…

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2025

Autoregressive Distillation of Diffusion Transformers

CVPR 2025poster

Diffusion models with transformer architectures have demonstrated promising capabilities in generating high-fidelity images and scalability for high resolution. However, iterative sampling process required for synthesis is very resource-intensive. A line of work has focused on distilling solutions…

2025

Diffusion Bridge AutoEncoders for Unsupervised Representation Learning

ICLR 2025spotlight

Diffusion-based representation learning has achieved substantial attention due to its promising capabilities in latent representation and sample generation. Recent studies have employed an auxiliary encoder to identify a corresponding representation from data and to adjust the dimensionality of a la…

2025

Disentangling Hyperedges through the Lens of Category Theory

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite the promising results of disentangled representation learning in discovering latent patterns in graph-structured data, few studies have explored disentanglement for hypergraph-structured data. Integrating hyperedge disentanglement into hypergraph neural networks enables models to leverage hi…

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2025

FlexiDiT: Your Diffusion Transformer Can Easily Generate High-Quality Samples with Less Compute

CVPR 2025highlight

Despite their remarkable performance, modern Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are hindered by substantial resource requirements during inference, stemming from the fixed and large amount of compute needed for each denoising step. In this work, we revisit the conventional static paradigm that allocates…

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2025

Global Context-aware Representation Learning for Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics

ICML 2025poster

Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics (SRT) is a cutting-edge technique that captures the spatial context of cells within tissues, enabling the study of complex biological networks. Recent graph-based methods leverage both gene expression and spatial information to identify relevant spatial domains. Ho…

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2025

Preference Optimization by Estimating the Ratio of the Data Distribution

NeurIPS 2025poster

Direct preference optimization (DPO) is widely used as a simple and stable method for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. This paper investigates a generalized DPO loss that enables a policy model to match the target policy from a likelihood ratio estimation perspective. T…

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2024

Diffusion Rejection Sampling

ICML 2024poster

Recent advances in powerful pre-trained diffusion models encourage the development of methods to improve the sampling performance under well-trained diffusion models. This paper introduces Diffusion Rejection Sampling (DiffRS), which uses a rejection sampling scheme that aligns the sampling transiti…

2024

Label-Noise Robust Diffusion Models

ICLR 2024poster

Conditional diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in various generative tasks, but training them requires large-scale datasets that often contain noise in conditional inputs, a.k.a. noisy labels. This noise leads to condition mismatch and quality degradation of generated data. This pape…

2024

Reward-based Input Construction for Cross-document Relation Extraction

ACL 2024long

Relation extraction (RE) is a fundamental task in natural language processing, aiming to identify relations between target entities in text. While many RE methods are designed for a single sentence or document, cross-document RE has emerged to address relations across multiple long documents. Given…

2024

Training Unbiased Diffusion Models From Biased Dataset

ICLR 2024poster

With significant advancements in diffusion models, addressing the potential risks of dataset bias becomes increasingly important. Since generated outputs directly suffer from dataset bias, mitigating latent bias becomes a key factor in improving sample quality and proportion. This paper proposes tim…

2023

Refining Generative Process with Discriminator Guidance in Score-based Diffusion Models

ICML 2023oral

The proposed method, **Discriminator Guidance**, aims to improve sample generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The approach introduces a discriminator that gives explicit supervision to a denoising sample path whether it is realistic or not. Unlike GANs, our approach does not require joint trai…

2023

SAAL: Sharpness-Aware Active Learning

ICML 2023poster

While deep neural networks play significant roles in many research areas, they are also prone to overfitting problems under limited data instances. To overcome overfitting, this paper introduces the first active learning method to incorporate the sharpness of loss space into the acquisition function…