Papers by Haeju Park

6 papers
One Missing Piece for Open-Source Reasoning Models: A Dataset to Mitigate Cold-Starting Short CoT LLMs in RL (2025.acl-industry)

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Challenge: Existing large reasoning models are limited by their closed nature and high API costs and safety issues.
Approach: They propose to build a long CoT dataset with existing short CoT LLMs that are not trained for inference-time scaling.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves quality comparable to—or slightly below—R1 and is able to think longer and provide control over the thought budget to better manage the overthinking problem.
Soft Representation Learning for Sparse Transfer (P19-1)

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Challenge: Using adversarial training, we can “soft-code” shared and private spaces to avoid sparse sharing.
Approach: They propose to use adversarial training to “soft-code” shared and private spaces to avoid the shared space gets too sparse.
Outcome: The proposed architecture avoids sparse sharing of shared and private spaces, and also deals with low-quality input.
Shifting from Ranking to Set Selection for Retrieval Augmented Generation (2025.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing approaches primarily rerank top-k passages based on individual relevance, often failing to meet the information needs of complex queries in multi-hop question answering.
Approach: They propose a set-wise passage selection approach and introduce SetR which explicitly identifies the information requirements of a query through Chain-of-Thought reasoning.
Outcome: The proposed approach outperforms both proprietary LLM-based rerankers and open-source baselines in terms of answer correctness and retrieval quality.
MICRON: Multigranular Interaction for Contextualizing RepresentatiON in Non-factoid Question Answering (D19-1)

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Challenge: Existing approaches for non-factoid question answering can be categorized into representation and interaction focused approaches.
Approach: They propose a novel approach which derives contextualized uni-gram representation from n-grams.
Outcome: The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art in two public non-factoid question answering datasets.
Less is More: Attention Supervision with Counterfactuals for Text Classification (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Specifically, we explore the advantage of counterfactual reasoning, over associative reasoning . Adding human supervision to attention has been shown to improve model predictions and explanations .
Approach: They propose to use machine-augmented human attention supervision to enhance model quality.
Outcome: The proposed method is more effective than existing methods requiring higher annotation cost . the proposed method can be trained to generate similar attention to human supervision .
Learning to Embed Multi-Modal Contexts for Situated Conversational Agents (2022.findings-naacl)

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Challenge: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversations 2.0 aims to create virtual shopping assistants that can accept complex multi-modal inputs.
Approach: They propose a joint learning approach that integrates visual inputs and performs all four subtasks at once for efficiency.
Outcome: The proposed approach won the 10th Dialog Systems Technology Challenge (DSTC10) . it incorporates visual inputs and performs all four subtasks at once for efficiency .

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