"AI For Good"
Our group conducts research on machine learning and data-centric AI problems & systems grounded in big data, spanning areas such as machine learning, data mining, databases, and computational theory. Rather than focusing solely on building ever-larger models, we study how learned knowledge inside modern AI models can be understood, reused, adapted, and trusted.
Our core research theme is to make large-scale AI models (particularly deep neural networks) more accessible, scalable, and reliable. In particular, we investigate the following questions:
(Accessibility) How can the knowledge learned by trained neural networks be extracted, reused, and explained?
(Scalability) How can AI models be continually and incrementally updated without forgetting previously learned knowledge?
(Reliability) How can incorrectly learned or biased knowledge be detected, repaired, or reorganized within neural networks?
From an academic perspective, we pursue research of the highest quality in both theory and practice. Our work aims to produce rigorous and impactful contributions, and we actively publish in top-tier venues in machine learning and big data, including ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, ICDM, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, etc. For a comprehensive list of top-tier conferences and journals, please refer to the following Google Scholar pages: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining & Analysis, and Databases & Information Systems.
Our demo paper, “Looking at Your Photo, What Comes to Mind? Personalized Memory Internalization for Dementia Reminiscence,” has been accepted to the IJCAI 2026 Demo Track. This system represents a demonstration outcome of our five-year Human-Centered AI project, developed since last year to support memory recall for elderly individuals with dementia. Many thanks to everyone for their hard work, especially to Shunjie for leading the writing, and congratulations to all!
Our consortium, led by Polaris Office, has been selected as one of only two funded consortia in an IITP R&D program on lightweight AI training and inference. The project, titled “Development of Ultra-Efficient Lightweight AI Model Technologies Specialized for Document Collaboration toward Digital Sovereignty,” will receive KRW 7.5 billion over four years. Our lab will contribute to the development of efficient AI inference technologies for document collaboration, with a particular focus on task/context-aware reasoning optimization, token pruning, and other lightweight inference techniques.
Our paper, "PGB: One-Shot Pruning for BERT via Weight Grouping and Permutation ," (1st author: Hyemin Lim, MS alumna) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, which is a prestigious SCIE journal (IF 4.6) in artificial intelligence. Well deserved, Hyemin & Jaeyeon!
Our paper, "STARK: Structure-Aware and Adaptive Representation Learning for Continual Knowledge Graph Embedding ," (1st author: Kyung-Hwan Lee, MS Student) has been accepted for the WWW 2026 (ACM The Web) conference, which is a top-tier conference in the fields of web-based data mining and AI (BK 4). Congratulations, Kyung-Hwan!
Our paper, "Balanced Online Class-Incremental Learning via Dual Classifiers ," (1st author: Shunjie Wen, PhD Student) has been accepted for the ACM SAC 2026 conference, which is a reputable international venue in applied computing research (BK 1). Congratulations, Shunjie!
We are always looking for motivated and curious students (BS, MS, and PhD) who are interested in machine learning, data-centric AI, and large-scale models. Please email Prof. Choi your CV, transcript, and (if available) a brief statement of your research interests.
빅데이터 연구실에서는 학부연구생, 석사과정, 박사과정 학생을 모집하고 있습니다. 대학원 진학 및 연구실에 대해서 관심이 있는 학생들은 dchoi@inha.ac.kr로 CV와 간단한 연구(학업)계획서를 첨부해서 이메일을 보내기 바랍니다.