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Lab Updates

Announcements, paper acceptances, and milestones from the lab and its PI.

  • 2026
  • OctYoungeun Kim received Amazon AWS research credits to support the lab's agentic AI research.
  • OctYoungeun Kim will give an invited talk, "Algorithms for Neuromorphic Computing: Designing Efficient Spiking Neural Networks", at the IEEE CASS Satellite Workshop at APCCAS 2026 on October 24.
  • SepOur paper "KARL: Kairotic Training for Efficient Agentic Reinforcement Learning System" is accepted to LCFM @ NeurIPS 2026.
  • SepYoungeun Kim will serve as an Area Chair for ICLR 2027.
  • SepYoungeun Kim spoke on neuromorphic computing and AI consciousness at the Sentient AI and National Security Forum (SAIF).
  • AugOur paper "Block Recursive Transformers for Structured Parameter Sharing" is accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings.
  • AugYoungeun Kim gave a talk titled "Designing Efficient yet Strong Video Understanding Models" at ETRI.
  • AprOur paper "Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model" is accepted to ICML 2026 (Spotlight).
  • FebOur papers "ZOO-Prune: Training-Free Token Pruning via Zeroth-Order Gradient Estimation in Vision-Language Models" and "VisRef: Visual Refocusing while Thinking Improves Test-Time Scaling in Multi-Modal Large Reasoning Models" are accepted to CVPR 2026.