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10 papers and preprints. * denotes equal contribution.

2026

8 papers
arXiv 2026Robotics

Dynamic Manipulation with World-Action Models via Counterfactual Planning

Sunwoo Park*, Wonbin Lee*, Seonghyun Jin*, Youngmin Kim*, Jangho Park, Jong Chul Ye

arXiv preprint (under review)

Dynamic Predictive Planning treats manipulation of moving targets as counterfactual planning: the world-action model's own rollout estimates when an interaction will happen and where the target will be, and a counterfactual observation lets the policy invoke a skill it already has instead of improvising a recovery. Runs in real time on a single consumer GPU with no training on dynamic data.

World-Action ModelsDynamic ManipulationCounterfactual Planning
arXiv 2026Robotics

FastOPD: On-Policy Distillation for Lightweight VLA Deployment

Yoojin Oh, Jeongsol Kim, Yeonwoo Seo, Jangho Park, Seonghyun Jin, Sunwoo Park, Youngmin Kim, Youngjun Jun, Kyumin Choi, Jong Chul Ye

arXiv preprint (under review)

A foundation-to-lightweight VLA framework: it adapts a flow map for single-state teacher supervision and pairs it with a self-consistency objective, distilling a large VLA into a compact student that provably recovers the teacher's distribution.

VLAOn-Policy DistillationFlow Maps
arXiv 2026Robotics

DriftOPD: Sequence-Level Reverse-KL Distillation for One-Step VLA Policies

Youngjun Jun, Kyumin Choi, Youngmin Kim, Seonghyun Jin, Sunwoo Park, Jangho Park, Jong Chul Ye

arXiv preprint (under review)

Teacher-free, rollout-free sequence-level distillation: the sequence-level reverse KL splits into a chunk-level term and a future-potential term that carries the long-horizon effect of the current action, and a one-step drifting objective optimizes both.

VLASequence-Level DistillationReverse KL
arXiv 2026Robotics

Don't Throw Away the Tail: Action Upcycling for Policy Acceleration

Taesung Kwon, Jangho Park, Sunwoo Park, Youngmin Kim, Seonghyun Jin, Youngjun Jun, Kyumin Choi, Jong Chul Ye

arXiv preprint (under review)

A training-free way to stretch a chunked policy's execution horizon by reusing the actions it would otherwise discard, extending it only while action velocity stays smooth. Cuts policy calls by 1.2-1.7x with no loss in success rate across several VLAs and a world-action model.

VLAPolicy AccelerationAction Chunking
arXiv 2026Robotics

Adjoint Guidance Flow: Amortized Critic Guidance for VLA Policies

Jeongsol Kim, Youngjun Jun, Kyumin Choi, Youngmin Kim, Seonghyun Jin, Sunwoo Park, Jangho Park, Kwanyoung Kim, Jong Chul Ye

arXiv preprint (under review)

Casts critic-guided flow generation as optimal control and regresses a lightweight guidance network onto the resulting costate, so a frozen VLA gains trajectory-aware critic guidance at one extra forward pass per step - 3.6x faster than QGF with 7x fewer parameters.

VLAFlow ModelsCritic Guidance
NeurIPS 2026Video Generation

CRePE: Curved Ray Expectation Positional Encoding for Unified-Camera-Controlled Video Generation

Seonghyun Jin*, Youngmin Kim*, Sunwoo Park*, Jong Chul Ye

NeurIPS 2026 (Poster)

A positional encoding that models curved rays so a single video diffusion model can be controlled by pinhole, fisheye and panoramic cameras alike. An earlier version appeared at the ECCV 2026 Workshop on 3D in the Era of World Models.

Camera ControlPositional EncodingWorld Models
arXiv 2026Medical Imaging

DMD-augmented Unpaired Neural Schrödinger Bridge for Ultra-Low Field MRI Enhancement

Youngmin Kim*, Jaeyun Shin*, Jeongchan Kim*, Taehoon Lee, Jaemin Kim, Peter Hsu, Jelle Veraart, Jong Chul Ye

arXiv preprint (under review)

Combines distribution matching distillation with an unpaired neural Schrödinger bridge to translate ultra-low-field brain MRI toward high-field quality.

Schrödinger BridgeDistillationUnpaired Translation
MICCAI 2026 WMedical Imaging

Ultra-Low-Field Brain MRI Enhancement using Resfusion and Residual Artifact Suppression Network

Youngmin Kim*, Jeongchan Kim*, Taehoon Lee*, Jaeyun Shin*, Suhyeon Lee, Jong Chul Ye

MICCAI 2026 ULF-EnC Challenge Workshop

A residual diffusion pipeline with an artifact-suppression network for the MICCAI ultra-low-field enhancement challenge.

DiffusionMRIChallenge

2025

2 papers
KCC 2025Systems

Performance Analysis of Kubernetes Traffic Scheduling Algorithms in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Environments

Youngmin Kim, Hogeon Park, Heonchang Yu

Korea Computer Congress (KCC) 2025

Measures how Kubernetes traffic-scheduling algorithms behave across homogeneous and heterogeneous clusters.

KubernetesSchedulingBenchmark
KDD Cup 2025Vision-Language

Improving Visual Question Answering via Prompt-Level Adaptation and Knowledge-Driven Fine-Tuning: Solution of Meta CRAG-MM Challenge 2025

Youngmin Kim, Wonyeong Jang, Taehee Jeong

KDD Cup 2025 Workshop on CRAG-MM

Prompt-level adaptation and knowledge-driven fine-tuning for multimodal RAG question answering in the Meta CRAG-MM challenge.

VQAMultimodal RAGChallenge