Publications

2026

Mixture-of-Experts with Intermediate CTC Supervision for Accented Speech Recognition

Wonjun Lee, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Proceedings of ACL 2026.

Can LLMs Estimate Cognitive Complexity of Reading Comprehension Items?

Seonjeong Hwang, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Proceedings of ACL 2026.

A Multi-Agent Framework for Feature-Constrained Difficulty Control in Reading Comprehension Item Generation

Seonjeong Hwang, Jun Seo, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Lee. Proceedings of ACL 2026.

Why Do Multilingual Reasoning Gaps Emerge in Reasoning Language Models?

Deokhyung Kang, Seonjeong Hwang, Daehui Kim, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Findings of ACL 2026

Behavior-Aware Item Modeling via Dynamic Procedural Solution Representations for Knowledge Tracing

Jun Seo*, Sangwon Ryu*, Heejin Do†, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee†. Findings of ACL 2026

AQuA: Toward Strategic Response Generation for Ambiguous Visual Questions

Jihyoung Jang and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of ICLR 2026. [Paper]

2025

PanicToCalm: A Proactive Counseling Agent for Panic Attacks

Jihyun Lee, Yejin Min, San Kim, Yejin Jeon, SungJun Yang, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Proceedings of EMNLP 2025. [Paper]

KoBLEX: Open Legal Question Answering with Multi-hop Reasoning 

Jihyung Lee*, DaeHee Kim*, Seonjeong Hwang, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Proceedings of EMNLP 2025. [Paper]

Revealing the Inherent Instructability of Pre-Trained Language Models

Seokhyun An, Minji Kim, and Hyounghun Kim. Findings of EMNLP 2025. [Paper]

Self-Correcting Code Generation Using Small Language Models

Jeonghun Cho, Deokhyung Kang, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Findings of EMNLP 2025. [Paper] 

Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Reinforcement for Face-to-Speech Generation 

Yejin Jeon, Youngjae Kim, Jihyun Lee, Hyounghun Kim, and Gary Lee. Findings of EMNLP 2025. [Paper] 

ChronoBias: A Benchmark for Evaluating Temporal Group Bias in Retrieval-augmented Language Models. 

Kyungmin Kim, Youngbin Choi, Hyounghun Kim, Dongwoo Kim, and Sangdon Park. Findings of EMNLP 2025. [Paper] 

Enabling Chatbots with Eyes and Ears: An Immersive Multimodal Conversation System for Dynamic Interactions

Jihyoung Jang*, Minwook Bae*, Minji Kim, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of ACL 2025. [Paper]

2024

Collective Critics for Creative Story Generation

Minwook Bae, and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of EMNLP 2024. [Paper]

Mixed-Session Conversation with Egocentric Memory

Jihyoung Jang, Taeyoung Kim, and Hyounghun Kim. Findings of EMNLP 2024. [Paper] [Website]

2023

Conversation Chronicles: Towards Diverse Temporal and Relational Dynamics in Multi-Session Conversations

Jihyoung Jang, MinSeong Boo,  and Hyounghun Kim. Proceedings of EMNLP 2023. [Paper] [Website]

Sound of Story: Multi-modal Storytelling with Audio

Jaeyeon Bae*, Seokhoon Jeong*, Seokun Kang, Namgi Han, Jae-Yon Lee, Hyounghun Kim, and Taehwan Kim. Findings of EMNLP 2023. [Paper]

2022

CoSIm: Commonsense Reasoning for Counterfactual Scene Imagination

Hyounghun Kim*, Abhay Zala*, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of NAACL 2022. [Paper]

On the Limits of Evaluating Embodied Agent Model Generalization Using Validation Sets

Hyounghun Kim, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Di Jin, Mohit Bansal, and Dilek Hakkani-Tur. Insights Workshop, ACL 2022. [Paper]

CAISE: Conversational Agent for Image Search and Editing 

Hyounghun Kim, Doo Soon Kim, Seunghyun Yoon, Franck Dernoncourt, Trung Bui, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of AAAI 2022. [Paper]

2021

NDH-Full: Learning and Evaluating Navigational Agents on Full-Length Dialogue

Hyounghun Kim, Jialu Li, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of EMNLP 2021. [Paper]

Continuous Language Generative Flow

Zineng Tang, Shiyue Zhang, Hyounghun Kim, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of ACL 2021. [Paper]

FixMyPose: Pose Correctional Captioning and Retrieval

Hyounghun Kim*, Abhaysinh Zala*, Graham Burri, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of AAAI 2021. [Paper]

2020

ArraMon: A Joint Navigation-Assembly Instruction Interpretation Task in Dynamic Environments

Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Graham Burri, Hao Tan, and Mohit Bansal. Findings of EMNLP 2020. [Paper]

Dense-Caption Matching and Frame-Selection Gating for Temporal Localization in VideoQA

Hyounghun Kim, Zineng Tang, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of ACL 2020. [Paper]

Modality-Balanced Models for Visual Dialogue

Hyounghun Kim, Hao Tan, and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of AAAI 2020. [Paper]

2019

Improving Visual Question Answering by Referring to Generated Paragraph Captions

Hyounghun Kim and Mohit Bansal. Proceedings of ACL 2019 (short paper). [Paper] [Best Short Paper Nomination]

Development of Augmented Reality Applications in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Austin S. Rose, Hyounghun Kim, Henry Fuchs, and Jan-Michael Frahm. The Laryngoscope, Jul 2019. [Paper]

2018

Towards Fully Mobile 3D Face, Body, and Environment Capture Using Only Head-worn Camera

Young-Woon Cha, True Price, Zhen Wei, Xinran Lu, Nicholas Rewkowski, Rohan Chabra, Zihe Qin, Hyounghun Kim, Zhaoqi Su, Yebin Liu, Adrian Ilie, Andrei State, Zhenlin Xu, Jan-Michael Frahm, and Henry Fuchs. IEEE TVCG Vol. 24, Nov. 2018. [Paper]