News

Sep. 2026New preprint on reasoning beyond parametric knowledge in sRMs is out on arXiv. 🔥
Sep. 2026New preprint on improving exploration in RLVR is out on arXiv. 🔥
Sep. 2026SelfCI is accepted to NeurIPS 2026! 🇦🇺
Aug. 2026HINT-SD is accepted to EMNLP Findings 2026! 🇭🇺
Jul. 2026Honored to receive the Presidential Science Scholarship for Graduate Study! 🎖️
May. 2026New preprint on retrieval across heterogeneous knowledge sources is out on arXiv. 🔥
Apr. 2026WorldMM is selected as a highlight presentation at CVPR 2026! ✨
Apr. 2026UniversalRAG is accepted to ACL 2026 as an oral presentation! 🇺🇸
Mar. 2026New preprint on multi-agent egocentric video QA benchmark is out on arXiv. 🔥
Feb. 2026WorldMM is accepted to CVPR 2026! 🇺🇸
Jan. 2026I gave a talk on multimodal memory agent at TwelveLabs. 🎙️
Sep. 2025Joined MLAI Lab at KAIST as a master’s student. 👨🏻‍🎓
Feb. 2025VideoICL is accepted to CVPR 2025! 🎉

Selected Publications

  1. Surprising Success, Repeated Failure: Entropy-Guided Credit Assignment for Exploration in LLM Reasoning
    Woongyeong Yeo, Minki Kang, Chanuk Lee, Sangwoo Park, Jinheon Baek†, Sung Ju Hwang†
    arXiv preprint, 2026
  2. It Takes Two: Complementary Self-Distillation for Contextual Integrity in LLMs
    Sangwoo Park*, Woongyeong Yeo*, Seanie Lee, Yumin Choi, Hyomin Lee, Kangsan Kim, Jinheon Baek†, Seong Joon Oh†, Sung Ju Hwang†
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026
  3. HINT-SD: Targeted Hindsight Self-Distillation for Long-Horizon Agents
    Woongyeong Yeo*, Yumin Choi*, Taekyung Ki, Sung Ju Hwang
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026 (EMNLP Findings), 2026
  4. WorldMM: Dynamic Multimodal Memory Agent for Long Video Reasoning
    Woongyeong Yeo*, Kangsan Kim*, Jaehong Yoon†, Sung Ju Hwang†
    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026 (Highlight)
  5. UniversalRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Corpora of Diverse Modalities and Granularities
    Woongyeong Yeo*, Kangsan Kim*, Soyeong Jeong, Jinheon Baek†, Sung Ju Hwang†
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2026 (Oral)