Favorite quote

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."  - Thomas Edison

Work Experience

• Staff Engineer
  Samsung Research

Apr. 2025 - Current

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering,
  Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea
  Advisor: Prof. Jongwuk Lee

Mar. 2019 - Feb.2025

• B.S., Computer Science and Engineering,
  Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Republic of Korea

Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2019

Publications (International conference)

• GRAM: Generative Recommendation via Semantic-aware Multi-granular Late Fusion [link] [code]
  Sunkyung Lee, Minjin Choi, Eunseong Choi, Hye-young Kim, Jongwuk Lee
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  Vienna, Austria, July 27–Aug 1, 2025

• Linear Item-Item Models with Neural Knowledge for Session-based Recommendation [link] [code]
  Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee
  The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
  Padua, Italy, July 13-17, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 21.5%, 238/1105) 

• DIFF: Dual Side-Information Filtering and Fusion for Sequential Recommendation [link] [code]
  Hye-young Kim, Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Ilwoong Baek, Jongwuk Lee
  The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
  Padua, Italy, July 13-17, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 21.5%, 238/1105)

• Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation [link] [code]
  Seongmin Park*, Mincheol Yoon*, Minjin Choi, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
  Hannover, Germany, March 10-14, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 17.3%, 106/614) 

• From Reading to Compressing: Exploring the Multi-document Reader for Prompt Compression [link] [code] [poster] [slide]
  Eunseong Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Minjin Choi, Jun Park, Jongwuk Lee
  Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
  Miami, Florida, USA, November 12-16, 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 37.7%, 2300/6105) 

• MARS: Matching Attribute-aware Representations for Text-based Sequential Recommendation [link] [code] [poster]  
  Hyunsoo Kim*, Junyoung Kim*, Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM, short paper)
  Boise, Idaho, USA, October 21-25, 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 26.8%, 141/527)

• Multi-intent-aware Session-based Recommendation [link] [code] [poster]  
  Minjin Choi, Hye-young Kim, Hyunsouk Cho, Jongwuk Lee
  The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR, short paper)
  Washington D.C., USA, July 14-18, 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 24.0%, 84/362)

• GLEN: Generative Retrieval via Lexical Index Learning [link] [code] [poster] [slide]
  Sunkyung Lee*, Minjin Choi*, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  Singapore, December 6-10, 2023 (Acceptance Rate (main): 23.3%, 901/3868)

• ConQueR: Contextualized Query Reduction using Search Logs [link] [code] [poster]
  Hye-young Kim*, Minjin Choi*, Sunkyung Lee, Eunseong Choi, Young-In Song, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR, short paper)
  Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 25.12%, 154/613)

• SpaDE: Improving Sparse Representations using a Dual Document Encoder for First-stage Retrieval [link] [code]
  Eunseong Choi*, Sunkyung Lee*, Minjin Choi, Hyeseon Ko, Young-In Song, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
  Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 17-21, 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 23.3%, 274/1175)

• S-Walk: Accurate and Scalable Session-based Recommendation with Random Walks [link] [code] [slide] [video][poster]
  Minjin Choi, Jinhong Kim, Joonseok Lee, Hyunjung Shim, Jongwuk Lee
  15th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
  Phoenix, Arizona, February 21-25, 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 20.2%, 159/786)

• MelBERT: Metaphor Detection via Contextualized Late Interaction using Metaphorical Identification Theories [link] [code] [slide] [video]
  Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Eunseong Choi, Heesoo Park, Junhyuk Lee, Dongwon Lee, Jongwuk Lee
  2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
  Mexico City, Mexico (Virtual Event), June 6–11, 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 26.5%, 477/1797)

• Session-aware Linear Item-Item Models for Session-based Recommendation [link] [code] [slide] [video]
  Minjin Choi, Jinhong Kim, Joonseok Lee, Hyunjung Shim, Jongwuk Lee
  30th The Web Conference (WWW)
  Ljubljana, Slovenia (Virtual Event), April 19-23, 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 20.6%, 357/1736)

• Local Collaborative Autoencoders [link] [code] [slide] [video][poster]
  Minjin Choi, Yoonki Jeong, Joonseok Lee, Jongwuk Lee
  14th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
  Jerusalem, Israel (Virtual Event), March 8-12, 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 18.6%, 112/603)

• Collaborative Distillation for Top-N Recommendation [link]
  Jae-woong Lee, Minjin Choi, Jongwuk Lee, Hyunjung Shim
  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
  Beijing, China, November 8-11, 2019 (Acceptance Rate: 9.08% , 95/1046)

• MMCF: Multimodal Collaborative Filtering for Automatic Playlist Continuation [link]
  Hojin Yang, Yoonki Jeong, Minjin Choi, Jongwuk Lee
  The ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys) Challenge, Vancouver, Canada, October 2-7, 2018

Publications (International journal)

• Knowledge Distillation Meets Recommendation: Collaborative Distillation for Top-N Recommendation [link]
  Jae-woong Lee, Minjin Choi, Lee sael, Hyunjung Shim, Jongwuk Lee
  Knowledge and Information Systems, April 20, 2022

Publications (Domestic conference)

• 힌트 벡터 유사도를 활용한 거대 언어 모델 기반 자연어-SQL 변환 [link]
  권동욱, 최민진, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2024 No.12 [2024]: 274-276, Dec 2024

• 반복 프롬프팅을 활용한 거대 언어모델 기반 표 질의응답 코드 생성 [link]
  박주봉, 이혜리, 최민진, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2023 No.06 [2023]: 884-886, Jun 2023

• 세션 기반 추천의 반복 및 비반복 항목 예측에 대한 성능 비교 및 분석 [link]
  김혜영, 최민진, 김준영, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2022 No.06 [2022]: 121-123, Jun 2022

• 임베딩 드롭아웃을 활용한 세션 기반 신경망 추천 모델의 성능 개선 [link]
  문재완, 최민진, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2020 No.7 [2020]: 76-78, Jul 2020

• 비신경망 vs. 신경망 기반 추천 모델: 정확도 및 다양성 비교 및 분석 [link]
  서해빈, 최민진, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2019 No.12 [2019]: 614-616, Dec 2019

• 추천시스템에서 인지도 편향의 영향력 분석 [link]
  김은빈, 최민진, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2018 No.12 [2018]: 1914-1916, Dec 2018

• 한글 자연어 처리를 위한 빈도수 기반 음절 임베딩 [link]
  정윤기, 최민진, 양호진, 이종욱
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 Vol.2018 No.06 [2018]: 604-606, Jun 2018

Publications (Domestic journal)

• 언어-영상 사전 학습 모델 기반 샘플 선택을 활용한 노이즈 레이블 학습 [link]
  차봉건, 최민진, 이종욱
  Journal of KIISE, 50(6), 511-520, 10.5626/JOK.2023.50.6.511, Jun 2023

Patents (Domestic)

• 생성적 검색을 위해 딥러닝 모델을 학습시키는 방법 및 기학습된 딥러닝 모델을 이용하여 질의 추론을 수행하는 장치
  이선경, 최민진, 이종욱
  출원번호 10-2024-0041745, 출원일 2024.03.27

• 은유 탐지 장치 및 방법 [link]
  이종욱, 최민진
  출원번호 10-2021-0109660, 출원일 2021.08.19, 등록번호 10-2574512, 등록일 2023.08.30

• 추천 리스트 생성 방법 [link]
  이종욱, 최민진
  출원번호 10-2021-0096734, 출원일 2021.07.22, 등록번호 10-2703648, 등록일 2024.09.02