About me
UPDATE
During Oct. 2023 ~ Mar. 2025, I work as a research scientist at KRAFTON, as a continuation of the alternative of mandatory military service.
During Mar. 2022 ~ Oct. 2023, I worked as a research scientist at AITRICS as the alternative for mandatory military service, working under the supervision of Prof. Sung Ju Hwang. I plan to come back to academia after the end of the military service.
I am a Ph.d. student at Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) lab in KAIST, under the supervision of Prof. Sung Ju Hwang.
My research interest includes:
- Efficient Deep Learning with Limited Data
- Domain Adaptation and Generalization
- Natural Language Processing and Understanding
- Graph Representation Learning
- Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Education
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Sep. 2021 - (On leave due to military service)Ph.d. in Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mar. 2020 - Aug. 2021M.S. in Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence
- Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Mar. 2015 - Feb. 2020B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Preprints / Workshop Publications
- [W1] Knowledge Graph-Augmented Language Models for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation
[workshop] [paper]
Minki Kang*, Jin Myung Kwak*, Jinheon Baek*, Sung Ju Hwang
Knowledge Retrieval and Language Models (KRLM) Workshop @ ICML 2022
Conference Publications
[C13] Latent Paraphrasing: Perturbation on Layers Improves Knowledge Injection in Language Models
[paper]
Minki Kang, Sung Ju Hwang, Gibbeum Lee, Jaewoong Cho
NeurIPS 2024[C12] Knowledge-Augmented Language Model Verification
[paper]
Jinheon Baek, Soyeong Jeong, Minki Kang, Jong C. Park, Sung Ju Hwang
EMNLP 2023[C11] Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning Distillation for Small Language Models in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks
[paper]
Minki Kang, Seanie Lee, Jinheon Baek, Kenji Kawaguchi, Sung Ju Hwang
NeurIPS 2023[C10] ZET-Speech: Zero-shot adaptive Emotion-controllable Text-to-Speech Synthesis with Diffusion and Style-based Models
[paper]
Minki Kang*, Wooseok Han*, Sung Ju Hwang, Eunho Yang
Interspeech 2023[C9] Grad-StyleSpeech: Any-speaker Adaptive Text-To-Speech Synthesis with Diffusion Models
[paper]
Minki Kang*, Dongchan Min*, Sung Ju Hwang
ICASSP 2023[C8] Sparse Token Transformer with Attention Back Tracking
[paper]
Heejun Lee, Minki Kang, Youngwan Lee, Sung Ju Hwang
ICLR 2023[C7] Self-Distillation for Further Pre-training of Transformers
[paper]
Seanie Lee, Minki Kang, Juho Lee, Sung Ju Hwang, Kenji Kawaguchi
ICLR 2023[C6] KALA: Knowledge-Augmented Language Model Adaptation
[paper]
Minki Kang*, Jinheon Baek*, Sung Ju Hwang
NAACL 2022[C5] Edge Representation Learning with Hypergraphs
[paper]
Jaehyeong Jo*, Jinheon Baek*, Seul Lee*, Dongki Kim, Minki Kang, Sung Ju Hwang
NeurIPS 2021[C4] Learning to Perturb Word Embeddings for Out-of-distribution QA
[paper]
Seanie Lee*, Minki Kang*, Juho Lee, Sung Ju Hwang
ACL 2021[C3] Accurate Learning of Graph Representations with Graph Multiset Pooling
[paper]
Jinheon Baek*, Minki Kang*, Sung Ju Hwang
ICLR 2021[C2] Neural Mask Generator: Learning to Generate Adaptive Word Maskings for Language Model Adaptation
[paper]
Minki Kang*, Moonsu Han*, Sung Ju Hwang
EMNLP 2020[C1] Episodic Memory Reader: Learning What to Remember for Question Answering from Streaming Data
[paper]
Moonsu Han*, Minki Kang*, Hyunwoo Jung, Sung Ju Hwang
ACL 2019
(*: equal contribution)
Experiences
- KRAFTON
Oct. 2023 - Mar. 2025 (expected)Natural Language DL Team @ AI Research Center
- AITRICS
Mar. 2022 - Oct. 2023Researcher @ Virtual Human Team
- Technial University of Munich
Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2019Exchange Student @ Electical and Computer Engineering Department
- Kakao
Jan. 2018 - Feb. 2018Internship @ Context Department