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Jinwoo Kim
jinwoo-kim [at] kaist.ac.kr
I am a Ph.D. student at KAIST
advised by Seunghoon Hong
and a visiting scholar at NYU working with
Kyunghyun Cho.
My name 진우 眞友 is pronounced [jeen-oo] in Korean.
I am interested in making current deep learning models
generalize better out of their training data so that
they can be used to solve challenging problems, such as
those in scientific domains. I have been studying this
problem primarily from the viewpoint of geometric deep
learning, focusing on all-purpose deep neural nets
that can reliably reason upon novel transformed inputs.
I often use tools from theories of graphs, (semi)groups
and manifolds, and Markov processes such as random
walks, diffusions and flows.
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Flock: A Knowledge Graph Foundation Model via Learning on Random Walks
Jinwoo Kim*, Xingyue Huang*, Krzysztof Olejniczak, Kyungbin Min, Michael Bronstein, Seunghoon Hong, İsmail İlkan Ceylan
Preprint, 2025
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Sequence Modeling with Spectral Mean Flows
Jinwoo Kim, Max Beier, Petar Bevanda, Nayun Kim, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2025
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Revisiting Random Walks for
Learning on Graphs
Jinwoo Kim, Olga Zaghen*,
Ayhan Suleymanzade*, Youngmin Ryou, Seunghoon
Hong
ICLR, 2025 Spotlight Presentation (3%); ICML GRaM Workshop, 2024
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Learning Probabilistic
Symmetrization for Architecture Agnostic
Equivariance
Jinwoo Kim, Tien Dat Nguyen, Ayhan
Suleymanzade, Hyeokjun An, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2023 Spotlight Presentation (3%)
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extended slides
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Universal Few-shot Learning
of Dense Prediction Tasks with Visual Token Matching
Donggyun Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Seongwoong
Cho, Chong Luo, Seunghoon Hong
ICLR, 2023 Outstanding Paper Award (0.08%)
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Pure Transformers are
Powerful
Graph Learners
Jinwoo Kim, Tien Dat Nguyen, Seonwoo
Min,
Sungjun Cho, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2022
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Inverting Data Transformations via Diffusion Sampling
Jinwoo Kim*, Sékou-Oumar Kaba*, Jiyun Park, Seunghoon Hong, Siamak Ravanbakhsh
Under review, 2025
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Flock: A Knowledge Graph Foundation Model via Learning on Random Walks
Jinwoo Kim*, Xingyue Huang*, Krzysztof Olejniczak, Kyungbin Min, Michael Bronstein, Seunghoon Hong, İsmail İlkan Ceylan
Preprint, 2025
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code
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Sequence Modeling with Spectral Mean Flows
Jinwoo Kim, Max Beier, Petar Bevanda, Nayun Kim, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2025
paper /
code
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Revisiting Random Walks for
Learning on Graphs
Jinwoo Kim, Olga Zaghen*,
Ayhan Suleymanzade*, Youngmin Ryou, Seunghoon
Hong
ICLR, 2025 Spotlight
Presentation (380/11672=3.26%); ICML GRaM Workshop, 2024
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code /
poster
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3D Denoisers are Good 2D
Teachers: Molecular Pretraining via Denoising and
Cross-Modal Distillation
Sungjun Cho, Dae-Woong Jeong, Sung Moon Ko,
Jinwoo Kim, Sehui Han, Seunghoon Hong, Honglak Lee,
Moontae Lee
AAAI, 2025 Oral Presentation
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Simulation-Free Training of
Neural ODEs on Paired Data
Semin Kim*, Jaehoon Yoo*, Jinwoo Kim,
Yeonwoo Cha, Saehoon Kim, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2024
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Learning Symmetrization for
Equivariance with Orbit Distance Minimization
Tien Dat Nguyen*, Jinwoo Kim*,
Hongseok Yang, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS NeurReps Workshop, 2023
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poster
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Learning Probabilistic
Symmetrization for Architecture Agnostic
Equivariance
Jinwoo Kim, Tien Dat Nguyen, Ayhan
Suleymanzade, Hyeokjun An, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2023 Spotlight
Presentation (378/12345=3.06%)
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code /
poster
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slides
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extended slides
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Universal Few-shot Learning
of
Dense Prediction Tasks with Visual Token
Matching
Donggyun Kim, Jinwoo Kim, Seongwoong
Cho, Chong Luo, Seunghoon Hong
ICLR, 2023 Outstanding Paper
Award (4/4955=0.08%)
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code
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Pure Transformers are
Powerful
Graph Learners
Jinwoo Kim, Tien Dat Nguyen, Seonwoo
Min, Sungjun Cho, Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2022
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code /
talk
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Transformers Meet Stochastic
Block Models: Attention with Data-Adaptive Sparsity
and Cost
Sungjun Cho, Seonwoo Min, Jinwoo Kim,
Moontae Lee, Honglak Lee, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2022
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Equivariant Hypergraph Neural
Networks
Jinwoo Kim, Saeyoon Oh, Sungjun Cho,
Seunghoon Hong
ECCV, 2022
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Transformers Generalize
DeepSets and Can be Extended to Graphs and
Hypergraphs
Jinwoo Kim, Saeyoon Oh, Seunghoon Hong
NeurIPS, 2021
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SetVAE: Learning Hierarchical
Composition for Generative Modeling of
Set-Structured
Data
Jinwoo Kim*, Jaehoon Yoo*, Juho Lee,
Seunghoon Hong
CVPR, 2021
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Spontaneous Retinal Waves Can
Generate Long-Range Horizontal Connectivity in
Visual
Cortex
Jinwoo Kim*, Min Song*, Jaeson Jang, Se-Bum Paik
The Journal of Neuroscience 40(34), 2020
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Honors
Outstanding Researcher Award,
KAIST-Mila Prefrontal AI Research Center, 2024
Recipient, ELLIS Mobility Grant,
ICML 2024 GRaM Workshop
Outstanding Paper Award, ICLR 2023
(as a coauthor)
Silver Prize, Samsung Humantech Paper
Award, 2023 (as a coauthor)
Recipient, Qualcomm Innovation
Fellowship Korea, 2022
Excellence Award, KAIST Undergraduate
Research Program, 2022 (as a mentor)
Recipient, Kwanjeong Education
Foundation Scholarship, 2022-2023
Recipient, KAIST Engineering
Innovator
Award, 2020 (1 of 5 Recipients in the
College of Engineering)
Recipient, National Science &
Technology Scholarship, 2018-2020
Recipient, KAIST Alumni Fellowship,
2017-2020
Recipient, KAIST Presidental
Fellowship, 2016-2020
Recipient, KAIST Dean's List, Spring
2016 / Fall 2016 / Spring 2018
Recipient, Hansung Scholarship for
Gifted Students, 2015-2016
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Invited Talks
Architecture-Agnostic Invariances for Deep Learning
Jul 2025, Dec 2024: Mila – Quebec AI Institute
May 2025: KAIST AI899 Geometric DL
Nov 2024: KAIST-Mila Prefrontal AI Research Center
Aug 2024: Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Nov 2023: Pohang University of Science and Technology
(POSTECH)
Universal Few-shot Learning of Dense
Prediction
Tasks with Visual Token Matching
Aug 2023: KAIST-Samsung Electronics DS Division
Exchange Meetup
Pure Transformers are Powerful Graph
Learners
Jan 2023: Microsoft USA
Nov 2022: NeurIPS 2022 at KAIST
Aug 2022: Learning on Graphs and Geometry Reading
Group
(LoGaG)
Transformers Generalize DeepSets and Can be
Extended to Graphs and Hypergraphs
Jan 2023: Qualcomm Korea
Jan 2022: KAIST AI Workshop 21/22
Dec 2021: NeurIPS Social: ML in Korea
SetVAE: Learning Hierarchical Composition for
Generative Modeling of Set-Structured Data
Sep 2021: Naver AI Author Meetup
Sep 2021: Korean Conference on Computer Vision (KCCV)
Spontaneous Retinal Waves Can Generate
Long-Range Horizontal Connectivity in Visual
Cortex
Oct 2019: Society for Neuroscience (SfN)
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Academic Services
Conference Reviewer, AISTATS 2025–2026,
ICLR 2025–2026, NeurIPS 2022–2025, ICML 2023–2025,
LoG 2022–2025, TAG-DS 2025, IJCNN 2025, ICCV 2025 SP4V Workshop,
ICML 2024 GRaM Workshop, CVPR 2022, ACCV 2022
Journal Reviewer, Neural Networks 2023, 2025, IJCV 2025,
TMLR 2024
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Teaching
Teaching Assistant, Computer Vision
(CS576), Spring 2022 / 2023
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to
Deep Learning (CS492I / CS371), Fall 2021 / 2022 /
2023
Teaching Assistant, Samsung Research
AI
Expert Program, Summer 2021 / 2022 / 2023
Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate
Research Program (URP), Spring 2022 / 2024
Teaching Assistant, School of
Computing
Colloquium (CS966 / CS986), Spring 2021
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Music
I love listening to and making music! My favorite
musicians include Lamp,
Radiohead,
and Ryuichi
Sakamoto. Below are some of my original
compositions:
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I occasionally post music stuff on my blog.
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