Publications
2026
GRAD: Generalizing RAG Adaptation with Decoding
Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
To appear at ACL 2026
Adaptive Retrieval for Reasoning
To appear at ACL 2026
Beyond Markovian Forgetfulness: Episodic Memory for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval
To appear at ACL 2026
UnIte: Uncertainty-based Iterative Document Sampling for Domain Adaptation in Information Retrieval
To appear at Findings of ACL 2026
DuET: Dual Execution for Test Output Prediction with Generated Code and Pseudocode
To appear at Findings of ACL 2026
R3-SQL: Ranking Reward and Resampling for Text-to-SQL
To appear at Findings of ACL 2026
Relevance to Utility: Process-Supervised Rewrite for RAG
To appear at Findings of ACL 2026
Agentic Verification for Ambiguous Query Disambiguation
Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Ruofan Wu, Feng Yan, Danmei Xu, Moutasem Akkad, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
To appear at Findings of ACL 2026
Benchmarking Testing in Automated Theorem Proving
To appear at ACL 2026 (Industry Track)
Dual-Scale World Memory for LLM Agents towards Hard-Exploration Problems
ICLR 2026
TAGQuant: Token-Aware Clustering for Group-Wise Quantization
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Aurick Qiao, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
EACL 2026 (Industry Track)
D3: Dynamic Docid Decoding for Multi-Intent Generative Retrieval
EACL 2026 (Industry Track)
On Listwise Reranking for Corpus Feedback
WSDM 2026 (short)
2025
From Token to Action: State Machine Reasoning to Mitigate Overthinking in Information Retrieval
Findings of EMNLP 2025
Overcoming Source Object Grounding for Semantic Image Editing
Yeonjoon Jung, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang.
TACL 2025
TALE: Token-Adaptive Low-Rank KVCache Approximation with Reconstruction Elimination
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Aurick Qiao, Daniel Campos, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
TACL 2025
Counterfactual-Consistency Prompting for Relative Temporal Understanding in Large Language Models
ACL 2025 (short)
STUN: Structured-Then-Unstructured Pruning for Scalable MoE Pruning
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Aurick Qiao, Daniel Campos, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
ACL 2025
ECoRAG: Evidentiality-guided Compression for Long Context RAG
Findings of ACL 2025
Tree-of-Prompts: Abstracting Control-Flow for Prompt Optimization
Jihyuk Kim, Shubham Garg, Lahari Poddar, Seung-won Hwang, Christopher Hench.
Findings of ACL 2025
FaVe: Factored and Verified Search Rationale for Long-form Answer
Jihyuk Kim, Sungjin Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Yang Liu.
Findings of ACL 2025
Smarter, Not Harder: Training-Free Adaptive Computation for Transformers
Findings of ACL 2025
ConvCodeWorld: Benchmarking Conversational Code Generation in Reproducible Feedback Environments
Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang, Rajhans Samdani, Yuxiong He.
ICLR 2025
PROM: Pivoted and Regulated Optimization for Multilingual Instruction Learning
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Hojin Lee, Yunju Bak, Changmin Lee.
NAACL 2025
CORD: Balancing COnsistency and Rank Distillation for Robust Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Daniel Campos, Filip Graliński, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
NAACL 2025 (short)
Inference Scaling for Bridging Retrieval and Augmented Generation
Youngwon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Daniel Campos, Filip Graliński, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He.
Findings of NAACL 2025
Query Variant Detection Using Retriever as Environment
{Minji Seo, Youngwon Lee}, Seung-won Hwang, Seoho Song, Hee-Cheol Seo, Young-In Song.
NAACL 2025 (Industry Track)
PLEX: Adaptive Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Code LLMs using Lottery-Tickets
NAACL 2025 (Industry Track)
2024
Piano performance evaluation dataset with multilevel perceptual features
{Jisoo Park, Jongho Kim}, Jeong Mi Park, Ahyeon Choi, Wen-Syan Li, Jonghwa Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Scientific Reports 14 (2024)
Interventional Speech Noise Injection for ASR Generalizable Spoken Language Understanding
EMNLP 2024
Meta-Prompting Efficient Task-Adaptive Query Generator for Retrieval
Yoonsang Lee, Minsoo Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
Findings of EMNLP 2024
Intended Target Identification for Anomia Patients with Gradient-based Selective Augmentation
Findings of EMNLP 2024
Analyzing the Effectiveness of Listwise Reranking with Positional Invariance on Temporal Generalizability
CLEF 2024, LongEval
ListT5: Listwise Reranking with Fusion-in-Decoder Improves Zero-shot Retrieval
Soyoung Yoon, Eunbi Choi, Jiyeon Kim, Yireun Kim, Hyeongu Yun, Seung-won Hwang.
ACL 2024
ArchCode: Incorporating Software Requirements in Code Generation with Large Language Models
ACL 2024
DADA: Distribution-Aware Domain Adaptation of PLMs for Information Retrieval
Findings of ACL 2024
RaDA: Retrieval-augmented Web Agent Planning with LLMs
Minsoo Kim, Victor S. Bursztyn, Eunyee Koh, Shunan Guo, Seung-won Hwang.
Findings of ACL 2024
ContrastiveMix: Overcoming Code-Mixing Dilemma in Cross-Lingual Transfer for Information Retrieval
Junggeun Do, Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
NAACL 2024 (short)
COMMIT: Code-Mixing English-Centric Large Language Model for Multilingual Instruction Tuning
Findings of NAACL 2024 (short)
2023
Learning to Rank Generation with Pairwise Partial Rewards
{Youngwon Lee, Jinu Lee}, Seung-won Hwang.
EMNLP 2023
On Sample-Efficient Code Generation
Hojae Han, Yu Jin Kim, Byoungjip Kim, Youngwon Lee, Kyungjae Lee, Kyungmin Lee, Moontae Lee, Kyunghoon Bae, Seung-won Hwang.
EMNLP 2023 (Industry Track)
Relevance-assisted Generation for Robust Zero-shot Retrieval
EMNLP 2023 (Industry Track)
Multilingual Lottery Tickets to Pretrain Language Models
Findings of EMNLP 2023
Intervention-Based Alignment of Code Search with Execution Feedback
Findings of EMNLP 2023
On Monotonic Aggregation for Open-domain QA
INTERSPEECH 2023
On Complementarity Objectives for Hybrid Retrieval
Dohyeon Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Kyungjae Lee, Seungtaek Choi, Sunghyun Park.
ACL 2023
Retrieval-augmented Video Encoding for Instructional Captioning
Findings of ACL 2023
When to Read Documents or QA History: On Unified, Selective Open-domain QA
{Kyungjae Lee, Sang-eun Han}, Seung-won Hwang, Moontae Lee.
Findings of ACL 2023
2022
PLM-based World Models for Text-based Games
EMNLP 2022
Towards Compositional Generalization in Code Search
Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang, Shuai Lu, Nan Duan, Seungtaek Choi.
EMNLP 2022 (short)
Pseudo-Relevance for Enhancing Document Representation
Jihyuk Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Seoho Song, Hyeseon Ko, Young-In Song.
EMNLP 2022
Normalizing Mutual Information for Robust Adaptive Training for Translation
Youngwon Lee, Changmin Lee, Hojin Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
EMNLP 2022 (short)
FAD-X: Fusing Adapters for Cross-lingual Transfer to Low-Resource Languages
Jaeseong Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Taesup Kim.
AACL/IJCNLP 2022 (short)
Collective Relevance Labeling for Passage Retrieval
NAACL 2022 (short)
Privacy-Preserving Text Classification on BERT Embeddings with Homomorphic Encryption
{Garam Lee, Minsoo Kim, Jai Hyun Park}, Seung-won Hwang, Jung Hee Cheon.
NAACL 2022 (short)
ReACC: A Retrieval-Augmented Code Completion Framework
Shuai Lu, Nan Duan, Hojae Han, Daya Guo, Seung-won Hwang, Alexey Svyatkovskiy.
ACL 2022
Debiasing Event Understanding for Visual Commonsense Tasks
{Minji Seo, YeonJoon Jung}, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang, Bei Liu.
Findings of ACL 2022 (short)
Plug-and-Play Adaptation for Continuously-updated QA
Kyungjae Lee, Wookje Han, Seung-Won Hwang, Hwaran Lee, Joonsuk Park, Sang-Woo Lee.
Findings of ACL 2022
C2L: Causally Contrastive Learning for Robust Text Classification
{Seungtaek Choi, Myeongho Jeong}, Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang.
AAAI 2022
2021
Structure-Augmented Keyphrase Generation
Jihyuk Kim, Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang.
EMNLP 2021
Robustifying Multi-hop QA through Pseudo-Evidentiality Training
ACL/IJCNLP 2021
Web Document Encoding for Structure-Aware Keyphrase Extraction
Jihyuk Kim, Young-In Song, Seung-won Hwang.
SIGIR 2021 (short)
SCOPA: Soft Code-Switching, Pairwise Alignment for Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer
CIKM 2021 (short)
Counterfactual Generative Smoothing for Imbalanced Natural Language Classification
Hojae Han, Seungtaek Choi, Myeongho Jeong, Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang.
CIKM 2021 (short)
Label, Context Augmentation for Response Selection at DSTC8
{Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi}, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang.
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, Language Processing (TASLP), 2021
Query Generation for Multimodal Documents
Kyungho Kim, Kyungjae Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Young-In Song, Seungwook Lee.
EACL 2021
2020
Retrieval-Augmented Controllable Review Generation
Jihyeok Kim, Seungtaek Choi, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang.
COLING 2020
Less is More - Attention Supervision with Counterfactuals for Text Classification
Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang.
EMNLP 2020
Conditional Response Augmentation for Dialogue Using Knowledge Distillation
{Myeongho Jeong, Seungtaek Choi}, Hojae Han, Kyungho Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
INTERSPEECH 2020
Training Data Optimization for Pairwise Learning to Rank
Hojae Han, Seung-won Hwang, Young-In Song, Siyeon Kim.
ICTIR 2020
Instructional Video Summarization Using Attentive Knowledge Grounding
{Kyungho Kim, Kyungjae Lee}, Seung-won Hwang.
ECML/PKDD 2020
Bert is Not All You Need for Commonsense Inference
{Sunghyun Park, Junsung Son}, Seung-won Hwang, KyungLang Park.
ICASSP 2020
Segment-Then-Rank - Non-Factoid Question Answering on Instructional Videos
Kyungjae Lee, Nan Duan, Lei Ji, Jason Li, Seung-won Hwang.
AAAI 2020
Meta-supervision for Attention Using Counterfactual Estimation
Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Seung-won Hwang.
Data Sci. Eng. 5(2): 193-204 (2020)
Conversion Prediction from Clickstream - Modeling Market Prediction, Customer Predictability
Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Nedim Lipka.
IEEE TKDE 2020
XINA - Explainable Instance Alignment Using Dominance Relationship
Jinyoung Yeo, Haeju Park, Sanghoon Lee, Eric Wonhee Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
IEEE TKDE 2020
SQuAD2-CR - Semi-supervised Annotation for Cause, Rationales for Unanswerability in SQuAD 2.0
Gyeongbok Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Hyunsouk Cho.
LREC 2020
2019
Learning with Limited Data for Multilingual Reading Comprehension
Kyungjae Lee, Sunghyun Park, Hojae Han, Jinyoung Yeo, Seung-won Hwang, Juho Lee.
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019
MICRON: Multigranular Interaction for Contextualizing RepresentatiON in Non-factoid Question Answering
Hojae Han, Seungtaek Choi, Haeju Park, Seung-won Hwang.
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 (short)
Categorical Metadata Representation for Customized Text Classification
Jihyeok Kim, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kyungjae Lee, Sua Sung, Minji Seo, Seung-won Hwang.
TACL 2019
Text Length Adaptation in Sentiment Classification
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seonjae Lim, Seung-won Hwang.
ACML 2019
Soft Representation Learning for Sparse Transfer
Haeju Park, Jinyoung Yeo, Gengyu Wang, Seung-won Hwang.
ACL 2019
Explanatory and Actionable Debugging for Machine Learning: A TableQA Demonstration
Minseok Cho, Gyeongbok Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
SIGIR 2019 (demo)
Paraphrase Diversification Using Counterfactual Debiasing
Sunghyun Park, Seung-won Hwang, Fuxiang Chen, Jaegul Choo, Jung-Woo Ha, Sunghun Kim, Jinyeong Yim.
AAAI 2019
QADiver: Interactive Framework for Diagnosing QA Models
Gyeongbok Lee, Sungdong Kim, Seung-won Hwang.
AAAI 2019 (demo)
List Intersection for Web Search: Algorithms, Cost Models, and Optimization
Sunghwan Kim, Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sameh Elnikety.
VLDB 2019
2018
List Intersection for Web Search - Algorithms, Cost Models, and Optimizations
Sunghwan Kim, Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Sameh Elnikety.
VLDB 2018
Machine-Translated Knowledge Transfer for Commonsense Causal Reasoning
Jinyoung Yeo, Geungyu Wang, Hyunsouk Cho, Seungtaek Choi, Seung-won Hwang.
AAAI 2018
Cold-Start Aware User and Product Attention for Sentiment Classification
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Jihyeok Kim, Sua Sung, Seung-won Hwang.
ACL 2018
Adversarial TableQA - Attention Supervision for Question Answering on Tables
Minseok Cho, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang, Jonghyuck Park.
ACML 2018
Translations as Additional Contexts for Sentence Classification
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Kyungjae Lee, Jinyeong Yeo, Seung-won Hwang.
IJCAI 2018
Semi-supervised Training Data Generation for Multilingual Question Answering
Kyungjae Lee, Kyoungho Yoon, Sunghyun Park, Seung-won Hwang.
LREC 2018
Visual Choice of Plausible Alternatives - An Evaluation of Image-based Commonsense Causal Reasoning
Jinyoung Yeo, Gyeongbok Lee, Gengyu Wang, Seungtaek Choi, Hyunsouk Cho, Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seung-won Hwang.
LREC 2018
Entity Commonsense Representation for Neural Abstractive Summarization
Reinald Kim Amplayo, Seonjae Lim, Seung-won Hwang.
NAACL-HLT 2018
2017
Efficient Keyword-Aware Representative Travel Route Recommendation
Yu Ting Wen, Jinyoung Yeo, Wen-Chih Peng, Seung-won Hwang.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Multimodal KB Harvesting for Emerging Spatial Entities
Jinyoung Yeo, Hyunsouk Cho, Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Gradable Adjective Embedding for Commonsense Knowledge
Kyungjae Lee, Hyunsouk Cho, Seung-won Hwang.
PAKDD 2017
Understanding Relations using Concepts and Semantics
Jouyon Park, Hyunsouk Cho, Seung-won Hwang.
DSMM@SIGMOD 2017
Predicting Online Purchase Conversion for Retargeting
Jinyoung Yeo, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Seung-won Hwang, Nedim Lipka.
WSDM 2017
2016
Cost-aware triage ranking algorithms for bug reporting systems
Jin-Woo Park, Mu-Woong Lee, Jinhan Kim, Seung-won Hwang, Sunghun Kim.
Knowl. Inf. Syst.
Fine-Grained Semantic Conceptualization of FrameNet
Jin-Woo Park, Seung-won Hwang, Haixun Wang.
AAAI 2016
Trivia quiz mining using probabilistic knowledge
Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zhongyuan Wang.
ASONAM 2016
Probabilistic Prototype Model for Serendipitous Property Mining
Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang, Zhongyuan Wang.
COLING 2016
Event Grounding from Multimodal Social Network Fusion
{Hyunsouk Cho, Jinyoung Yeo}, Seung-won Hwang.
ICDM 2016
Linking, integrating, and translating entities via iterative graph matching
Taesung Lee, Seung-won Hwang.
TAAI 2016
Browsing2purchase - Online Customer Model for Sales Forecasting in an E-Commerce Site
Jinyoung Yeo, Sungchul Kim, Eunyee Koh, Seung-won Hwang, Nedim Lipka.
WWW 2016