Papers by Minjun Kim
LLM Meets Scene Graph: Can Large Language Models Understand and Generate Scene Graphs? A Benchmark and Empirical Study (2025.acl-long)
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Dongil Yang, Minjin Kim, Sunghwan Kim, Beong-woo Kwak, Minjun Park, Jinseok Hong, Woontack Woo, Jinyoung Yeo
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive progress in various text-based tasks, such as question-answering and content generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate Large Language Models’ ability to understand scene graphs and generate them from textual narratives. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs well on scene graph understanding but struggles with scene graph generation, particularly for complex narratives. |
X-LLaVA: Optimizing Bilingual Large Vision-Language Alignment (2024.findings-naacl)
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DongJae Shin, HyeonSeok Lim, Inho Won, ChangSu Choi, Minjun Kim, SeungWoo Song, HanGyeol Yoo, SangMin Kim, KyungTae Lim
| Challenge: | constructing multilingual data for large multimodal models presents its own set of challenges due to language diversity and complexity. |
| Approach: | They propose to use GPT4-V to construct multimodal training datasets using a text-only version of GPT4. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method performs well in Korean and English, surpassing existing methods. |
TELLME: Test-Enhanced Learning for Language Model Enrichment (2026.findings-eacl)
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Minjun Kim, Inho Won, HyeonSeok Lim, MinKyu Kim, Junghun Yuk, Wooyoung Go, Jongyoul Park, Jungyeul Park, KyungTae Lim
| Challenge: | Continual pre-training (CPT) has been widely adopted as a method for domain expansion in large language models, but has faced challenges such as acquiring large-scale domain-specific datasets and high computational costs. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that integrates the Test-Enhanced Learning principle with CPT to promote efficient domain-specific knowledge acquisition and long-term memory retention. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods by 23.6% in the financial domain and achieves 9.8% improvement in long-term memory retention. |
Can LLMs Truly Plan? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Planning Capabilities (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing assessments of planning capabilities of large language models are limited to single-language or specific representation formats. |
| Approach: | a new benchmark is developed to assess the planning capabilities of large language models. |
| Outcome: | The Multi-Plan benchmark highlights performance disparities among models . language differences showed minimal impact, while mathematically structured representations improved accuracy . |
VLR-Bench: Multilingual Benchmark Dataset for Vision-Language Retrieval Augmented Generation (2025.coling-main)
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Hyeonseok Lim, Dongjae Shin, Seohyun Song, Inho Won, Minjun Kim, Junghun Yuk, Haneol Jang, KyungTae Lim
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation datasets for external knowledge-based VQA lack a capability to determine which passage is useful for answering queries. |
| Approach: | They propose a visual question answering benchmark for vision language models based on retrieval augmented generation (RAG) the proposed benchmark includes five input passages, a capability lacking in previous research. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark includes five input passages and is validated using the state-of-the-art Llama3-based VLM, the Llava-Llamama-3 model. |
Unifying Uniform and Binary-coding Quantization for Accurate Compression of Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Seungcheol Park, Jeongin Bae, Beomseok Kwon, Minjun Kim, Byeongwook Kim, Se Jung Kwon, U Kang, Dongsoo Lee
| Challenge: | Quantization is essential for deploying large language models (LLMs) efficiently since they require expensive computational and memory costs. |
| Approach: | They propose a quantization method that unifies flexible mapping techniques to optimize parameters precisely. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms existing methods and achieves higher accuracy on GSM8K benchmark. |
PAC-BENCH: Evaluating Multi-Agent Collaboration under Privacy Constraints (2026.findings-acl)
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Minjun Park, Donghyun Kim, Hyeonjong Ju, Seungwon Lim, Dongwook Choi, Taeyoon Kwon, Minju Kim, Jinyoung Yeo
| Challenge: | Recent research explores multi-agent systems where agents collaborate toward shared goals to handle complex tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark for systematic evaluation of multi-agent collaboration under privacy constraints. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark shows that privacy constraints degrade collaboration performance and make outcomes depend more on the initiating agent than the partner. |
SharVeT: Similarity-aware Parameter Sharing with Vector-based Tuning for Efficient LLM Compression (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for parameter sharing rely on naive grouping and fail to correct sharing-induced discrepancies. |
| Approach: | They propose a parameter sharing framework that performs similarity-based grouping to ensure accurate sharing and allocates parameters adaptively to preserve diversity within each group. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods, achieving 32.1% lower perplexity and 23.3% higher few-shot reasoning accuracy. |
ELO: Efficient Layer-Specific Optimization for Continual Pretraining of Multilingual LLMs (2026.eacl-industry)
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Hangyeol Yoo, ChangSu Choi, Minjun Kim, Seohyun Song, SeungWoo Song, Inho Won, Jongyoul Park, Cheoneum Park, KyungTae Lim
| Challenge: | Recent studies have focused on enhancing multilingual large language models (MLLMs) for specific languages. |
| Approach: | They propose an efficient layer-specific optimization method to enhance continual pretraining (CP) for specific languages in multilingual large language models (MLLMs). |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves a training speedup of up to 6.46 times compared to existing methods while improving target language performance by up to 5.2% on qualitative benchmarks. |
Context-Robust Knowledge Editing for Language Models (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing knowledge editing methods assess success by considering only edited knowledge without preceding contexts. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to strengthen context robustness by minimizing context-sensitive variance in hidden states of the model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the success rate in situations where a preceding context is present and preserves the overall capabilities of the model. |