publications

2026

1. ECCV

   Token-level Response-visual Attention Guidance for Multimodal LLMs Knowledge Distillation

   Jaehyun Jang, Eunseop Yoon, Hee Suk Yoon, SooHwan Eom, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   In European Conference on Computer Vision, Sep 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{jang2026token,
     author = {Jang, Jaehyun and Yoon, Eunseop and Yoon, Hee Suk and Eom, SooHwan and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision},
     month = sep,
     title = {Token-level Response-visual Attention Guidance for Multimodal LLMs Knowledge Distillation},
     year = {2026}
   }

2. INTERSPEECH

   Transcript-Free Flow-Matching Text-to-Speech via Speech Feature Conditioning

   SooHwan Eom, Hee Suk Yoon, Eunseop Yoon, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 2026

   arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{eom2025transcript,
     title = {Transcript-Free Flow-Matching Text-to-Speech via Speech Feature Conditioning},
     author = {Eom, SooHwan and Yoon, Hee Suk and Yoon, Eunseop and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2026},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {eess.AS}
   }

3. ICML

   Decomposed On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Reasoning: Steering Gradients for Visual Grounding

   Hee Suk Yoon, Eunseop Yoon, Jaehyun Jang, SooHwan Eom, Ji Woo Hong, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

   Spotlight Paper arXiv Bib

   Selected as a Spotlight (top 2.2%) at ICML 2026

   @inproceedings{yoon2026decomposed,
     title = {Decomposed On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Reasoning: Steering Gradients for Visual Grounding},
     author = {Yoon, Hee Suk and Yoon, Eunseop and Jang, Jaehyun and Eom, SooHwan and Hong, Ji Woo and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Dai, Qi and Luo, Chong and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2606.00564},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00564},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CV}
   }

4. CVPR

   PDCR: Perception-Decomposed Confidence Reward for Vision-Language Reasoning

   Hee Suk Yoon^*, Eunseop Yoon^*, Ji Woo Hong, SooHwan Eom, Gwanhyeong Koo, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2026

   arXiv Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{yoon2026pdcr,
     title = {{PDCR}: Perception-Decomposed Confidence Reward for Vision-Language Reasoning},
     author = {Yoon, Hee Suk and Yoon, Eunseop and Hong, Ji Woo and Eom, SooHwan and Koo, Gwanhyeong and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Dai, Qi and Luo, Chong and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     month = jun,
     year = {2026},
     pages = {18881--18891},
     url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Yoon_PDCR_Perception-Decomposed_Confidence_Reward_for_Vision-Language_Reasoning_CVPR_2026_paper.html},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CL}
   }

5. arXiv

   High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Generation from Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models via Distribution-Conditioned Diffusion Decoding

   Ji Woo Hong, Hee Suk Yoon, Gwanhyeong Koo, Eunseop Yoon, SooHwan Eom, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, and Chang D. Yoo

   CoRR, 2026

   Paper arXiv Bib

   @article{hong2026highfidelity,
     title = {High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Generation from Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models via Distribution-Conditioned Diffusion Decoding},
     author = {Hong, Ji Woo and Yoon, Hee Suk and Koo, Gwanhyeong and Yoon, Eunseop and Eom, SooHwan and Dai, Qi and Luo, Chong and Yoo, Chang D.},
     journal = {CoRR},
     volume = {abs/2603.13389},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2603.13389},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13389},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CV}
   }

2025

1. Nature

   Wearable Blood Pressure Sensors for Cardiovascular Monitoring and Machine Learning Algorithms for Blood Pressure Estimation

   Seongwook Min, Jaehun An, Jae Hee Lee, Ji Hoon Kim, Daniel J. Joe, Soo Hwan Eom, Chang D. Yoo, Hyo Suk Ahn, Jin Young Hwang, Sheng Xu, John A. Rogers, and Keon Jae Lee

   Nature Reviews Cardiology, Sep 2025

   Paper Bib

   @article{min2025wearable,
     title = {Wearable Blood Pressure Sensors for Cardiovascular Monitoring and Machine Learning Algorithms for Blood Pressure Estimation},
     author = {Min, Seongwook and An, Jaehun and Lee, Jae Hee and Kim, Ji Hoon and Joe, Daniel J. and Eom, Soo Hwan and Yoo, Chang D. and Ahn, Hyo Suk and Hwang, Jin Young and Xu, Sheng and Rogers, John A. and Lee, Keon Jae},
     journal = {Nature Reviews Cardiology},
     volume = {22},
     number = {9},
     pages = {629--648},
     year = {2025},
     month = sep,
     doi = {10.1038/s41569-025-01127-0},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-025-01127-0}
   }

2. arXiv

   PACR: Progressively Ascending Confidence Reward for LLM Reasoning

   Eunseop Yoon, Hee Suk Yoon, Jaehyun Jang, SooHwan Eom, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   2025

   Paper arXiv Bib

   @misc{yoon2025pacr,
     title = {{PACR}: Progressively Ascending Confidence Reward for {LLM} Reasoning},
     author = {Yoon, Eunseop and Yoon, Hee Suk and Jang, Jaehyun and Eom, SooHwan and Dai, Qi and Luo, Chong and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. and Yoo, Chang D.},
     year = {2025},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {cs.CL},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2510.22255},
     url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.22255}
   }

3. INTERSPEECH

   SiamCTC: Learning Speech Representations through Monotonic Temporal Alignment

   SooHwan Eom, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 2025

   Paper arXiv Bib

   @inproceedings{eom2025siamctc,
     title = {{SiamCTC}: Learning Speech Representations through Monotonic Temporal Alignment},
     author = {Eom, SooHwan and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of INTERSPEECH},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2746},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2746},
     archiveprefix = {arXiv},
     primaryclass = {eess.AS}
   }

4. Preprint

   Gated LoRA: Dual-Purpose Projections for Parameter-Efficient Mini-Expert Fine-Tuning

   SooHwan Eom, Hee Suk Yoon, Eunseop Yoon, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   2025

   Manuscript, OpenReview

   Bib HTML

   @misc{eom2025gated,
     title = {Gated {LoRA}: Dual-Purpose Projections for Parameter-Efficient Mini-Expert Fine-Tuning},
     author = {Eom, SooHwan and Yoon, Hee Suk and Yoon, Eunseop and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. and Yoo, Chang D.},
     year = {2025},
     note = {Manuscript, OpenReview},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=ZiBDVotA7g}
   }

2024

1. EMNLP

   Query-based Cross-Modal Projector Bolstering Mamba Multimodal LLM

   SooHwan Eom, Jay Shim, Gwanhyeong Koo, Haebin Na, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, Sungwoong Kim, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, Nov 2024

   Paper Bib

   @inproceedings{eom2024query,
     title = {Query-based Cross-Modal Projector Bolstering Mamba Multimodal {LLM}},
     author = {Eom, SooHwan and Shim, Jay and Koo, Gwanhyeong and Na, Haebin and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. and Kim, Sungwoong and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024},
     month = nov,
     year = {2024},
     address = {Miami, Florida, USA},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     pages = {14158--14167},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.827},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.827/}
   }

2. ACL

   TLCR: Token-Level Continuous Reward for Fine-grained Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

   Eunseop Yoon^*, Hee Suk Yoon^*, SooHwan Eom^*, Gunsoo Han, Daniel Nam, Daejin Jo, Kyoung-Woon On, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Sungwoong Kim, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024, 2024

   Paper Bib

   @inproceedings{yoon2024tlcr,
     title = {{TLCR}: Token-Level Continuous Reward for Fine-grained Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback},
     author = {Yoon, Eunseop and Yoon, Hee Suk and Eom, SooHwan and Han, Gunsoo and Nam, Daniel and Jo, Daejin and On, Kyoung-Woon and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Kim, Sungwoong and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024},
     series = {Findings of ACL},
     pages = {14969--14981},
     publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.889},
     url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.889/}
   }

3. ICASSP

   AdaMER-CTC: Connectionist Temporal Classification with Adaptive Maximum Entropy Regularization for Automatic Speech Recognition

   SooHwan Eom, Eunseop Yoon, Hee Suk Yoon, Chanwoo Kim, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2024

   Paper Bib

   @inproceedings{eom2024adamer,
     title = {{AdaMER-CTC}: Connectionist Temporal Classification with Adaptive Maximum Entropy Regularization for Automatic Speech Recognition},
     author = {Eom, SooHwan and Yoon, Eunseop and Yoon, Hee Suk and Kim, Chanwoo and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     pages = {12707--12711},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446721},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446721}
   }

4. IEEE Access

   Causal Localization Network for Radar Human Localization with Micro-Doppler Signature

   Sunjae Yoon, Gwanhyeong Koo, Jun Yeop Shim, SooHwan Eom, Ji Woo Hong, and Chang D. Yoo

   IEEE Access, 2024

   Paper Bib

   @article{yoon2024causal,
     title = {Causal Localization Network for Radar Human Localization with Micro-Doppler Signature},
     author = {Yoon, Sunjae and Koo, Gwanhyeong and Shim, Jun Yeop and Eom, SooHwan and Hong, Ji Woo and Yoo, Chang D.},
     journal = {IEEE Access},
     volume = {12},
     pages = {38275--38286},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3352022},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3352022}
   }

5. CVPRW

   Zero-Shot Dual-Path Integration Framework for Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation

   Tri Ton^*, Ji Woo Hong^*, Soohwan Eom, Jun Yeop Shim, Junyeong Kim, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Jun 2024

   Bib HTML

   @inproceedings{ton2024zeroshot,
     title = {Zero-Shot Dual-Path Integration Framework for Open-Vocabulary 3D Instance Segmentation},
     author = {Ton, Tri and Hong, Ji Woo and Eom, Soohwan and Shim, Jun Yeop and Kim, Junyeong and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
     month = jun,
     year = {2024},
     pages = {7598--7607},
     url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024W/OpenSUN3D/html/Ton_Zero-Shot_Dual-Path_Integration_Framework_for_Open-Vocabulary_3D_Instance_Segmentation_CVPRW_2024_paper.html}
   }

6. Preprint

   SQuBa: Speech Mamba Language Model with Querying-Attention for Efficient Summarization

   SooHwan Eom, Jay Shim, Eunseop Yoon, Hee Suk Yoon, Hyeonmok Ko, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, and Chang D. Yoo

   2024

   Manuscript, OpenReview

   Bib HTML

   @misc{eom2024squba,
     title = {{SQuBa}: Speech Mamba Language Model with Querying-Attention for Efficient Summarization},
     author = {Eom, SooHwan and Shim, Jay and Yoon, Eunseop and Yoon, Hee Suk and Ko, Hyeonmok and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark A. and Yoo, Chang D.},
     year = {2024},
     note = {Manuscript, OpenReview},
     url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=zOMa82W1HV}
   }

7. IEIE

   Spatial Adaptive Kernel Network for Enhanced Oriented Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

   Gwanhyeong Koo, Sunjae Yoon, Donghoon Lee, Soo Hwan Eom, JongSik Ahn, Tae-Young Lee, and Chang D. Yoo

   전자공학회논문지, 2024

   Bib

   @article{koo2024spatial,
     title = {Spatial Adaptive Kernel Network for Enhanced Oriented Ship Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery},
     author = {Koo, Gwanhyeong and Yoon, Sunjae and Lee, Donghoon and Eom, Soo Hwan and Ahn, JongSik and Lee, Tae-Young and Yoo, Chang D.},
     journal = {전자공학회논문지},
     pages = {78--91},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. ICASSP

   Counterfactual Two-Stage Debiasing for Video Corpus Moment Retrieval

   Sunjae Yoon, Ji Woo Hong, SooHwan Eom, Hee Suk Yoon, Eunseop Yoon, Daehyeok Kim, Junyeong Kim, Chanwoo Kim, and Chang D. Yoo

   In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023

   Paper Bib

   @inproceedings{yoon2023counterfactual,
     title = {Counterfactual Two-Stage Debiasing for Video Corpus Moment Retrieval},
     author = {Yoon, Sunjae and Hong, Ji Woo and Eom, SooHwan and Yoon, Hee Suk and Yoon, Eunseop and Kim, Daehyeok and Kim, Junyeong and Kim, Chanwoo and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     pages = {1--5},
     publisher = {IEEE},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095182},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095182}
   }

2. INTERSPEECH

   Mitigating the Exposure Bias in Sentence-Level Grapheme-to-Phoneme (G2P) Transduction

   Eunseop Yoon^*, Hee Suk Yoon^*, Dhananjaya Gowda, Soo Hwan Eom, Daehyeok Kim, John Harvill, Heting Gao, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Chanwoo Kim, and Chang D. Yoo

   In Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, 2023

   Paper Bib

   @inproceedings{yoon2023mitigating,
     title = {Mitigating the Exposure Bias in Sentence-Level Grapheme-to-Phoneme ({G2P}) Transduction},
     author = {Yoon, Eunseop and Yoon, Hee Suk and Gowda, Dhananjaya and Eom, Soo Hwan and Kim, Daehyeok and Harvill, John and Gao, Heting and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Kim, Chanwoo and Yoo, Chang D.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of INTERSPEECH},
     pages = {2028--2032},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2336},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2336}
   }