Papers by Jimin Kim
Probing-RAG: Self-Probing to Guide Language Models in Selective Document Retrieval (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to optimize retrieve-and-generate processes for real-world scenarios may not be optimal for large language models. |
| Approach: | They propose a Probing-RAG which utilizes hidden state representations from the intermediate layers of language models to adaptively determine the necessity of additional retrievals for a given query. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms previous methods while reducing the number of redundant retrieval steps. |
MMAC: A Multilingual, Multimodal Alignment Framework for Cultural Grounding Evaluation (2026.acl-long)
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Weihua Zheng, Zhengyuan Liu, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Weiwen Xu, Xiaoxue Gao, Bryan Chen Zhengyu Tan, Bowei Zou, Chang Liu, Yujia Hu, Xing Xie, Xiaoyuan Yi, Jing Yao, Chaojun Wang, Long Li, Rui Liu, Huiyao Liu, Koji Inoue, Ryuichi Sumida, Tatsuya Kawahara, Fan Xu, Lingyu Ye, Wei Tian, Dongjun Kim, Jimin Jung, Jaehyung Seo, Nadya Yuki Wangsajaya, Pham Minh Duc, Ojasva Saxena, Palash Nandi, Xiyan Tao, Wiwik Karlina, Tuan Luong, Keertana Arun Vasan, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Nancy F. Chen
| Challenge: | Existing models lack cultural alignment across modalities and languages . a new framework to assess cultural awareness across linguistics and languages is needed . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates tri-modally aligned cultural benchmarks and a five-dimensional evaluation protocol to assess cross-country awareness disparities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses cultural awareness disparities across modalities and languages . it is the first dataset aligned at the input level across text, image, and speech . |
No Reader Left Behind: Multi-Agent Summaries Everyone Can Understand (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing summarization systems struggle to address diverse linguistic and cognitive barriers among general readers. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework that integrates template-based planning with an iterative feedback loop guided by simulated readers and domain expert revision to address comprehension barriers such as unknown terms, missing contexts, and confusing sentences. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves readability and factuality across multiple datasets and human evaluations show that it is more accessible to a wide range of readers. |
SAFE-SQL: Self-Augmented In-Context Learning with Fine-grained Example Selection for Text-to-SQL (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Text-to-SQL aims to convert natural language questions into executable SQL queries. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that generates and filters self-augmented examples for SQL generation . using self-generated examples, they surpass previous zero-shot and few-shot frameworks . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework surpasses the previous zero-shot and few-shot frameworks, achieving higher execution accuracy. |
Towards Robust Mathematical Reasoning (2025.emnlp-main)
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Thang Luong, Dawsen Hwang, Hoang H Nguyen, Golnaz Ghiasi, Yuri Chervonyi, Insuk Seo, Junsu Kim, Garrett Bingham, Jonathan Lee, Swaroop Mishra, Alex Zhai, Huiyi Hu, Henryk Michalewski, Jimin Kim, Jeonghyun Ahn, Junhwi Bae, Xingyou Song, Trieu Hoang Trinh, Quoc V Le, Junehyuk Jung
| Challenge: | IMO-Bench is a suite of advanced reasoning benchmarks that targets the international mathematical Olympiad level. |
| Approach: | They propose IMO-Bench, a suite of advanced reasoning benchmarks that targets the level of the international mathematical Olympiad. |
| Outcome: | IMO-Bench is a suite of advanced reasoning benchmarks that targets the level of the international mathematical Olympiad. |
AVocaDo: Strategy for Adapting Vocabulary to Downstream Domain (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to fine-tune a language model with a large corpus in a general domain are suboptimal for downstream data when domain discrepancy exists. |
| Approach: | They propose to consider the pretrained vocabulary as an optimizable parameter . they add domain specific vocabulary based on a tokenization statistic . their method achieved consistent performance improvements on diverse domains . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves consistent performance improvements on diverse domains. |
Reweighting Strategy Based on Synthetic Data Identification for Sentence Similarity (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | obtaining large amounts of human-annotated datasets to train a sentence embedding model is difficult and expensive. |
| Approach: | They propose to train a classifier that identifies machine-written sentences and then use it to train an embedding model on synthetic data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms baselines on four real-world datasets and generalizes well. |