Research

Research Interest

Improving the efficiency and performance of large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs)

AI security, including agentic defensive AI for autonomous security systems and deepfake detection

Large-scale Data filtering and curation for efficient pre-training

Social AI, focusing on human-centric and socially aware intelligence

Reinforcement Learning for adaptive and generalizable decision-making systems

Autonomous driving-related perception and decision-making tasks

Generative modeling with Diffusion models

Improving the efficiency and performance of large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs)

  • [P10] Isotropic Embedding Perturbations for Robust Vision Language Encoders

    Hyesong Choi, Daeun Kim, Song Park, Taekyung Kim, Byeongho Heo, Sangdoo Yun, Dongbo Min, and Dongyoon Han
    under review, 2026

  • [P8] ECC: Encoder-Centric Corruption for Fine-Grained Vision in VLMs

    Hyesong Choi, Daeun Kim, Sungmin Cha, Kwang Moo Yi, and Dongbo Min
    under review, 2026

  • [P6] Enhancing Alignment for Unified Multimodal Models via Semantically-Grounded Supervision

    Jiyeong Kim, Yerim So, Hyesong Choi, Uiwon Hwang, and Dongbo Min
    under review, 2026

  • [P3] iConFormer: Dynamic Parameter-Efficient Tuning with Input-Conditioned Adaptation

    Hayeon Jo, Hyesong Choi, Minhee Cho, and Dongbo Min
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02838

AI security, including agentic defensive AI for autonomous security systems and deepfake detection

  • [P5] Stabilizing Robustness Transfer in Adversarial Distillation with Controlled Teacher Adaptation

    Hyejin Park, Hyesong Choi, and Dongbo Min
    under review, 2026

  • [P10] Isotropic Embedding Perturbations for Robust Vision Language Encoders

    Hyesong Choi, Daeun Kim, Song Park, Taekyung Kim, Byeongho Heo, Sangdoo Yun, Dongbo Min, and Dongyoon Han
    under review, 2026

Large-scale Data filtering and curation for efficient pre-training

Social AI, focusing on human-centric and socially aware intelligence

Reinforcement Learning for adaptive and generalizable decision-making systems

Autonomous driving-related perception and decision-making taskS

Generative modeling with Diffusion models

  • [P7] Adaptive Noise Injection, Bootstrapping Denoising Diffusion for Generalized Recognition

    Hyesong Choi, Daeun Kim, and Dongbo Min
    under review, 2026

Research Direction

AI Principles – Study the fundamental structure and learning mechanisms of modern AI models

Scalability & Efficiency – Design architectures and training strategies for scalable and efficient AI

Generalization – Develop AI systems that adapt across domains, tasks, and data modalities

Foundation Model – Research large-scale models from a core architectural and training perspective

Academic Sustainability – Make large models trainable even with limited resources compared to industry