Hyounghun Kim

Assistant professor at POSTECH GSAI/CSE | Prev. UNIST @unc @unccs @uncnlp @AdobeResearch @AmazonScience

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

A new #EMNLP2024 paper on creative long story generation!

Collaborative critics, guided by a leader, can significantly enhance the creativity of storytelling.

Interesting work by @minwookbae!

[Minwook Bae @MinwookBae]

📖 Excited to present our novel long-story generation framework, Collective Critics for Creative Story Generation (CritiCS)!

Previous long-story generation research mainly focused on coherence, overlooking creative and captivating storytelling. However, what we truly want is to generate stories that captivate readers. Therefore, we developed CritiCS—a framework designed to foster creativity and produce captivating long-form stories through a collective critique mechanism.

Thanks to @khsquared and the amazing Language & Intelligence Lab family for their invaluable insights and continuous support!

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@mohitban47 Congrats Mohit!!

[Mohit Bansal @mohitban47]

Deeply happy and honored to be elected as an ACL Fellow -- and to be a part of the respected cohort of this+past years' fellows (congrats everyone)! 🙏

All the credit (and sincere gratitude) to all my amazing students, postdocs, collaborators, mentors, and family! 🤗💙

[Jihyoung Jang @jihyoungjang]

🚨Our paper "Enabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears" has been accepted to #ACL2025NLP!

👀👂We explore how chatbots can integrate visual, auditory, and textual modalities to support multi-party, multi-session, real-world immersive conversations.

🧵👇

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@jmin__cho @unccs @JHUCompSci Huge congrats, Jaemin!🥳 Well deserved, and best of luck with your new academic journey!

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@youngjoongkwon Big congrats, Youngjoong!🥳 Best of luck on your journey ahead!!

[Elias Stengel-Eskin @EliasEskin]

Extremely excited to announce that I will be joining @UTAustin @UTCompSci in August 2025 as an Assistant Professor! 🎉

I’m looking forward to continuing to develop AI agents that interact/communicate with people, each other, and the multimodal world. I’ll be recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026 across a range of connected topics (details: https://t.co/Jh7VvrT4i7) and plan on recruiting interns for Fall 2025 as well.

A huge shoutout to my mentors who have supported and shaped my research! Especially grateful to my postdoc advisor @mohitban47 for helping me grow along the whole spectrum of PI skills, and my PhD advisor @ben_vandurme for shaping my trajectory as a researcher, and of course the amazing students/collaborators from @uncnlp and @jhuclsp 🙏

[Mohit Bansal @mohitban47]

In Singapore for #ICLR2025 this week to present the papers + keynotes below 👇, and looking forward to seeing everyone -- happy to chat about research, or faculty+postdoc+phd positions, or simply hanging out (feel free to ping to set up a meeting)! 🙂

Also meet several of our awesome students/postdocs/collaborators who will be presenting this exciting batch of papers (incl. oral+spotlight)!

[Mohit Bansal @mohitban47]

🎉 Congrats to the awesome students, postdocs, & collaborators for this exciting batch of #ICLR2025 and #NAACL2025 accepted papers (FYI some are on the academic/industry job market and a great catch 🙂), on diverse, important topics such as:

-- adaptive data generation environments/policies
-- adapting diverse controls to any diffusion model
-- balancing fast and slow system-1.x planning
-- balancing agents' persuasion resistance+acceptance
-- multimodal compositional+modular video reasoning
-- reverse thinking for stronger LLM reasoning
-- lifelong multimodal instruction tuning via dynamic data selection
-- safe T2I/T2V generation
-- generative infinite games
-- procedural+predictive video representation learning
-- bootstrapping VLN via self-refining data flywheel
-- automated preference data synthesis
-- diagnosing cultural bias of VLMs
-- adaptive decoding to balance contextual+parametric knowledge conflicts
-- positional bias of faithfulness for long-form summarization
-- improving generation faithfulness via multi-agent collaboration

(PS. Also a big thanks to ACs+reviewers for their effort!)

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@AliAthar1401 @mohitban47 Thanks, @AliAthar1401 !!

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

I am joining POSTECH after spending a couple of years at UNIST. I really appreciate the strong support from UNIST and am excited for this new journey at POSTECH🚀

Thanks to @mohitban47 for the always-thoughtful advice🙏

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@youngjoongkwon @mohitban47 Thanks, @youngjoongkwon !!😀

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@jmin__cho @mohitban47 Thanks, @jmin__cho 😀 재민아 고마워! 계획한 일 잘되길 바라고, 좋은 소식 기대할게!!🤞

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@shoubin621 @mohitban47 Thanks, @shoubin621 !!

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@danadaeun @mohitban47 Thanks, @danadaeun !!

[Jialu Li @JialuLi96]

Thrilled to announce that Unbounded has been accepted to #ICLR2025 @iclr_conf! 🎉

Experience our character life simulation game, powered entirely by generative models.

We tackle two key challenges:
1️⃣ Ensuring character and environment consistency with a dynamic regional IP-Adapter.
2️⃣ Enabling real-time interaction using a latent consistency model and a distilled specialized LLM.

Check out our work to see the game in action!

See you in Singapore! 🇸🇬

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@JialuLi96 Thanks, @JialuLi96 !!😀

[Hyounghun Kim @khsquared]

@mohitban47 Thank you, @mohitban47 🙏

[Swarnadeep Saha @swarnaNLP]

Complex evaluation is in parts planning and in parts reasoning. Hence, we trained an LLM to think before producing a judgment.

My first work since joining this awesome team 😄

[Mohit Bansal @mohitban47]

Many thanks @RealAAAI for selecting me as a #AAAI Fellow! Very humbled+excited to be a part of the respected cohort of this+past years' fellows (and congrats everyone)! 🙏

PS. 100% of the credit goes to all my amazing past & current students+postdocs+collaborators for all their work in these AI areas (& thanks to my mentors+family)! 💙

https://t.co/qrizJHw6pt

[Mohit Bansal @mohitban47]

Deeply honored and humbled to have received the Presidential #PECASE Award by the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS office!

Very grateful to my amazing mentors, students, postdocs, collaborators, and friends+family for making this possible, and for making the journey worthwhile + beautiful 💙 🙏

(Also congrats to all the winners from the last 4-5 years/batches + glad this has been finally announced officially 🙂)