Ph.D. Student ยท Yonsei University

Junhyeok Kim

Hello! ๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm a Ph.D. student at MICV Lab at Yonsei University (Prof. Seong Jae Hwang). I'm currently interested in mechanistic interpretability, vision-language models, and a little bit of medical imaging!

  • New My first first-author paper, which interprets ViT features and uncovers circuits to understand the model's underlying mechanisms, has been accepted to NeurIPS '25.
  • Open I am actively looking for internship opportunities. Please feel free to reach out!
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Research

Currently, my primary research interest lies in Mechanistic Interpretability (MI). By leveraging MI, we can understand what capabilities an AI model specializes in and what capabilities it requires. I believe that this deep understanding of AI models will ultimately serve as a major foundation for advancing towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).

* equal contribution

SIGNAVOX overview
arXiv 2026

Towards Continuous Sign Language Conversation from Isolated Signs

Youngmin Kim, Kyobin Choo, Jiwoo Park, Minseo Kim, Chanyoung Kim, Junhyeok Kim, Seong Jae Hwang

SIGNAVOX is a framework that turns isolated sign clips into continuous 3D sign-language conversations and trains a model to generate sign responses directly from prior signing context, without relying on text at inference time.

vSTREAM overview
ICML 2026Spotlight

Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model

Seil Kang, Woojung Han, Junhyeok Kim, Jinyeong Kim, Youngeun Kim, Seong Jae Hwang

vSTREAM enables real-time, faithful visual attribution streaming in multimodal reasoning models by amortizing causal effect estimation from attention features.

KAB and ReTRo overview
CVPR 2026Highlight

Anchoring and Rescaling Attention for Semantically Coherent Inbetweening

Tae Eun Choi*, Sumin Shim*, Junhyeok Kim, Seong Jae Hwang

Two training-free approaches, Keyframe-anchored Attention Bias (KAB) and Rescaled Temporal RoPE (ReTRo), significantly enhances semantic fidelity, frame consistency, and pace stability in text-conditioned generative inbetweening.

Backbone Augmented Training overview
AAAI 2026 WorkshopOral

Backbone Augmented Training for Adaptations

Jae Wan Park, Junhyeok Kim, Youngjun Jun, Hyunah Ko, Seong Jae Hwang

Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data

To solve the problem of scarce adaptation data, the pre-training data of the backbone model can be selectively utilized to augment the adaptation dataset.

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Miscellaneous

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I am currently the student leader of the MICV lab!

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I'm the drummer at the MICCAI 2025 Gala Dinner!

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Since I'm a drummer, here's a tiny drum machine. Click the cells to make a beat, then hit play. Tap a track name to hear it. Bass cells change note each time you click.