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Five papers on learning under imperfect supervision — selecting useful samples, adapting with scarce data, synthesizing missing examples, stabilizing preference optimization, and verifying temporal predictions in video. First or co-first author on all five: GAPO accepted to NeurIPS 2026, work published at ICML 2023 and AAAI 2024, and two preprints, including SUTURE on video temporal grounding.

Ref 01/05 NeurIPS 2026 Accepted ★ First author

GAPO — Learning Where It Matters: Geometric Anchoring for Robust Preference Alignment

Youngjae Cho, Jongsuk Kim, Ji-Hoon Kim

Stability · noisy preferences

Proposed a batch-conditioned adversarial anchor and anchor-gap reweighting for brittle preferences; improved AlpacaEval 2.0 LC win rate by 3.6 percentage points over SimPO (Mistral-7B).

AlpacaEval 2.0 LC +3.6pp vs SimPObeats DPO · SimPO · KTO · ORPO
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Ref 02/05 AAAI 2024 Published ★ First author

APP — Make Prompts Adaptable: Bayesian Modeling for Vision-Language Prompt Learning with Data-Dependent Prior

Youngjae Cho, HeeSun Bae, Seungjae Shin, YeoDong Youn, Weonyoung Joo, Il-Chul Moon

Adaptation · scarce data

Developed Bayesian prompt adaptation with data-dependent priors and Wasserstein gradient flow for posterior inference, improving few-shot generalization under distribution shift.

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Ref 03/05 ICML 2023 Published ★ Co-first author

SAAL — Sharpness-Aware Active Learning

Yoon-Yeong Kim*, Youngjae Cho*, JoonHo Jang, Byeonghu Na, Yeongmin Kim, Kyungwoo Song, Wanmo Kang, Il-Chul Moon

Acquisition · scarce labels

Co-developed sharpness-aware acquisition through pseudo-label-based perturbed-loss estimation, with a theoretical optimization bound; evaluated classification, detection, and domain-adaptive segmentation.

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Ref 04/05 arXiv 2026 Preprint ★ First author

SUTURE — Beyond Scalar IoU: Structured Verification from Rollout Groups for Video Temporal Grounding

Youngjae Cho, Won Young Jhoo, Jongsuk Kim

Verification · video understanding

Introduced a group-conditioned verifier with an exact decomposition into IoU and a covariance correction; improved temporal grounding at every reported IoU threshold across five benchmarks.

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Ref 05/05 arXiv 2024 Preprint ★ First author

Background-Aware Defect Generation for Robust Industrial Anomaly Detection

Youngjae Cho, Gwangyeol Kim, Sirojbek Safarov, Seongdeok Bang, Jaewoo Park

Synthesis · scarce anomalies

When real defects are too rare to train on, generate them — diffusion synthesis that models the relationship between foreground defect and background surface explicitly, and argues the disentanglement theoretically rather than only showing it. The method behind the production system on the product page.

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2026 · NVIDIA Nemotron Hackathon — Winner, Track B

Team winner in Track B (Domain-Specialized Model). Implemented the preference-optimization post-training (SimPO on Megatron-Bridge) behind the team's winning video content-safety VLM.

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Safe diffusion remains in progress, extending the safety side of the moderation stack. Findings are withheld until the work is public.

Unpublished No result yet

Safe diffusion

Keeping a diffusion model from generating what it shouldn't.

Findings withheld