Keon Lee

Last update

Jun. 13, 2024

Hi there ๐Ÿ‘‹

I am a deep learning researcher at KRAFTON AI, deeply passionate about generative models that empower conversational agents imbued with a unique personality (like Samantha from the movie "Her"). My current focus lies on text-to-speech (TTS), as I believe it offers the most intuitive and efficient means of a human-like personality.

I received my B.S. degree in Industrial Design & School of Computing, M.S. degree in School of Computing from KAIST in 2020, 2022 respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Daeyoung Kim.


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Research

Mini-Batch Optimization of Contrastive Loss

Jaewoong Cho*, Kartik Sreenivasan*, Keon Lee, Kyunghoo Mun, Soheun Yi, Jeong-Gwan Lee, Anna Lee, Jy-yong Sohn, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Kangwook Lee

TMLR 2024

[paper][code]

CLaM-TTS: Improving Neural Codec Language Model for Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech

Jaehyeon Kim, Keon Lee, Seungjun Chung, Jaewoong Cho

ICLR 2024

[paper][demo]

Censored Sampling of Diffusion Models Using 3 Minutes of Human Feedback

TaeHo Yoon, Kibeom Myoung, Keon Lee, Jaewoong Cho, Albert No, Ernest K. Ryu

NeurIPS 2023

[paper][code]

Mini-Batch Optimization of Contrastive Loss

Kartik Sreenivasan, Keon Lee, Jeong-Gwan Lee, Anna Lee, Jaewoong Cho, Jy-yong Sohn, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Kangwook Lee

ICLR 2023 Workshop on Mathematical and Empirical Understanding of Foundation Models

[paper]

DailyTalk: Spoken Dialogue Dataset for Conversational Text-to-Speech

Keon Lee*, Kyumin Park*, Daeyoung Kim

ICASSP 2023 (Oral)

[paper][code]

RedPen: Region- and Reason-Annotated Dataset of Unnatural Speech

Kyumin Park, Keon Lee, Daeyoung Kim, Dongyeop Kang

arXiv 2022

[paper]

STYLER: Style Factor Modeling with Rapidity and Robustness via Speech Decomposition for Expressive and Controllable Neural Text to Speech

Keon Lee, Kyumin Park, Daeyoung Kim

INTERSPEECH 2021

[paper][demo][code]

Award

1st Papers with Code Contributor Award, 2022

by The Papers with Code Team

Iโ€™ve been selected as a recipient of the first ever Papers with Code Contributor Award by my ongoing contributions toย Papers with Code!

Education

M.S. in School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Advised by Daeyoung Kim, Mar 2020 - Mar 2022

Area: Expressive Speech Synthesis

B.S. in Industrial Design & School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Mar 2014 - Mar 2020

Experience

Deep Learning Researcher

Mar 2022 - Present


KRAFTON [link]

Area: Text-to-speech (TTS)

Data Scientist Intern

Jul 2021 - Feb 2022


LOVO [link]

Area: Neural Expressive Speech Synthesis

Challenge

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019


Boostcamp @ NAVER [link]

Area: Javascript and React with a server backend

Research Intern

Advised by Juho Kim

Jan 2019 - Feb 2019


KIXLAB @ KAIST [link]

Area: Crowdsourcing for credibility in online discussions

Internship

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018


Elice [link]

Area: Educational services for coding and data science

Internship

Jun 2017 - Aug 2017


TreeNLink

Area: Product design for smart farm

Selected Project

PyTorch Implementations

Github Project, May 2021 - Present

Pintos

Course Project: Operating Systems and Lab, Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

Speech Assistant for English Learner

Personal Project, Apr 2019

Homepage

Personal Project, Jun 2019 - present

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Personal Project, Sep 2017 - Oct 2019

Linky @ E5 KAIST

Start-up, Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

System Design for National Science Museum

Course Project: System Design, Mar 2017 - Jun 2017

Graduation Project @ ID KAIST

Advised by KunPyo Lee, Mar 2017 - Dec 2017

Fruiteria

Course Project: Entrepreneurship & Startup Creation, Mar 2016 - Jun 2016

Teaching Experience

Fall 2021 @ KAIST ํ•˜๋‚˜์€ํ–‰ ํ˜„์—… ์ „์‚ฐ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰ ๋ณด์œ  ์ธ์žฌ ์–‘์„ฑ๊ณผ์ •

Spring 2021 @ KAIST System Programming (CS230)

Fall 2020 @ KAIST Introduction to Programming (CS101)

Spring 2020 @ KAIST System Programming (CS230)