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taehoon-yoon/README.md

TAEHOON YOON

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Generative Modeling, Probabilistic Inference:

Diffusion and Flow-Matching Models, Controllable Generation, Reward Alignment, Inverse Problems, Particle-Based Sampling Methods

EDUCATION

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)    [Mar. 2024 - Present]

    M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence)

  • Sogang University  [Mar. 2017 - Feb. 2024]

    B.S. in Physics & Computer Science and Engineering (Double Major),   GPA: 4.27/4.3

    Graduated as the top student from the College of Natural Sciences (Valedictorian)

PUBLICATIONS

  • [NeurIPS 2025, Spotlight] Ψ-Sampler: Initial Particle Sampling for SMC-Based Inference-Time Reward Alignment in Score Models

    Taehoon Yoon*,   Yunhong Min*,   Kyeongmin Yeo*,  Minhyuk Sung (* equal contribution)

    | Website | Paper | arXiv | Code |

  • [NeurIPS 2025] Inference-Time Scaling for Flow Models via Stochastic Generation and Rollover Budget Forcing

    Jaihoon Kim*,  Taehoon Yoon*,   Jisung Hwang*,   Minhyuk Sung (* equal contribution)

    | Website | Paper | arXiv | Code |

  • [NeurIPS 2024] GrounDiT: Grounding Diffusion Transformers via Noisy Patch Transplantation

    Phillip Y. Lee*,  Taehoon Yoon*,   Minhyuk Sung (* equal contribution)

    | Website | Paper | arXiv | Code |

HONORS & AWARDS

  • Valedictorian, College of Natural Sciences, Sogang University   [Feb. 2024]
  • Dean's List, Sogang University   [Feb. 2023, Feb. 2020]
  • Top 1% Grade Award, Sogang University   [Sept. 2020, Mar. 2020, Mar. 2019]

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

  • Graduate Researcher at Visual AI Lab, KAIST (Advisor, Prof. Minhyuk Sung)   [Mar.2024 - Present]
  • Research Intern at Visual AI Lab, KAIST (Advisor, Prof. Minhyuk Sung)   [Jan.2024 - Feb.2024]
  • Research Intern at CJ AI Center, CJ Group [hosted by Seoul National Univ. AI Institute] (Advisor, Dr. Seong Jong Ha)  [Jul.2023 - Aug. 2023]
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Visual Computing Lab, Sogang University (Advisor, Prof. Joo Ho Lee)   [Sept. 2022 - Apr. 2023]
  • Research Internship at BISPL Lab, KAIST AI graduate school (Advisor, Prof. Jong Chul Ye)   [Jul. 2022 - Sept. 2022]

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Observatory & Education Assistant at Donga Science Observatory   [May.2018 - Feb. 2019]

Pinned Loading

  1. KAIST-Visual-AI-Group/Psi-Sampler KAIST-Visual-AI-Group/Psi-Sampler Public

    [NeurIPS 2025, Spotlight] Official code for Initial Particle Sampling for SMC-Based Inference-Time Reward Alignment in Score-Based Generative Models

    Python 13

  2. KAIST-Visual-AI-Group/Flow-Inference-Time-Scaling KAIST-Visual-AI-Group/Flow-Inference-Time-Scaling Public

    [NeurIPS 2025] Official code for Inference-Time Scaling for Flow Models via Stochastic Generation and Rollover Budget Forcing

    Python 69 1

  3. KAIST-Visual-AI-Group/GrounDiT KAIST-Visual-AI-Group/GrounDiT Public

    [NeurIPS 2024] Official Implementation of GrounDiT

    Jupyter Notebook 58 3

  4. Diffusion-Probabilistic-Models Diffusion-Probabilistic-Models Public

    PyTorch implementation for DDPM & DDIM

    Python 38 2

  5. SPH-Fluid-Simulation SPH-Fluid-Simulation Public

    Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics implementation with Python

    Python 28 2

  6. CT-denoising-using-CycleGAN CT-denoising-using-CycleGAN Public

    AAPM Low Dose CT data denoising using Cycle GAN

    Jupyter Notebook 27 4