Papers by Minyoung Kim
When Should Dense Retrievers Be Updated in Evolving Corpora? Detecting Out-of-Distribution Corpora Using GradNormIR (2025.findings-acl)
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Dayoon Ko, Jinyoung Kim, Sohyeon Kim, Jinhyuk Kim, Jaehoon Lee, Seonghak Song, Minyoung Lee, Gunhee Kim
| Challenge: | Dense retrievers encode text into embeddings to retrieve relevant documents . however, real-world corpora evolve, resulting in degraded retrieval performance . identifying when a dense retriever requires an update is critical for robust retrieval systems . |
| Approach: | They propose a task of predicting whether a corpus is out-of-distribution (OOD) relative to a dense retriever before indexing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method detects whether a corpus is out-of-distribution (OOD) relative to a dense retriever before indexing. |
What Changes Can Large-scale Language Models Bring? Intensive Study on HyperCLOVA: Billions-scale Korean Generative Pretrained Transformers (2021.emnlp-main)
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Boseop Kim, HyoungSeok Kim, Sang-Woo Lee, Gichang Lee, Donghyun Kwak, Jeon Dong Hyeon, Sunghyun Park, Sungju Kim, Seonhoon Kim, Dongpil Seo, Heungsub Lee, Minyoung Jeong, Sungjae Lee, Minsub Kim, Suk Hyun Ko, Seokhun Kim, Taeyong Park, Jinuk Kim, Soyoung Kang, Na-Hyeon Ryu, Kang Min Yoo, Minsuk Chang, Soobin Suh, Sookyo In, Jinseong Park, Kyungduk Kim, Hiun Kim, Jisu Jeong, Yong Goo Yeo, Donghoon Ham, Dongju Park, Min Young Lee, Jaewook Kang, Inho Kang, Jung-Woo Ha, Woomyoung Park, Nako Sung
| Challenge: | GPT-3 has been used to train large-scale language models on hundreds of billion scale data. |
| Approach: | They propose a Korean variant of GPT-3 that uses Korean tokens to train in-context models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows state-of-the-art zero-shot and few-shot learning on downstream tasks in Korean. |
BPM_MT: Enhanced Backchannel Prediction Model using Multi-Task Learning (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Backchannel (BC) is a short and quick reaction signal of a listener to a speaker's utterances. |
| Approach: | They propose a model that utilizes lexical information in utterances to enhance backchannel (BC) prediction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model showed 14.24% performance improvement compared to baseline in the four BC categories: continuer, understanding, empathic response, and No BC. |
ReSCORE: Label-free Iterative Retriever Training for Multi-hop Question Answering with Relevance-Consistency Supervision (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Multi-hop question answering requires reasoning across multiple documents to answer complex questions. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for training dense retrievers for multi-hop question answering . they leverage large language models to measure document-question relevance with answer consistency . their results lead to state-of-the-art Exact Match and F1 scores for MHQA . |
| Outcome: | Evaluated on three MHQA benchmarks, the proposed method improves retrieval performance . it leads to state-of-the-art Exact Match and F1 scores for the proposed technique . |
A Model of Cross-Lingual Knowledge-Grounded Response Generation for Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on open-domain dialogue systems that allow free topics are challenging . however, non-English dialogue systems suffer from reproducing the performance of English dialogue systems . |
| Approach: | They propose to use English knowledge to improve the performance of open-domain dialogue systems . they construct a Korean-English T5 language model and develop a knowledge-grounded Korean dialogue model . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves even when only English knowledge is given . the model is built with a pre-trained language model and a knowledge-grounded Korean dialogue model . |