I am currently an M.S. student at Korea University, co-advised by Prof. Donghyun Kim and Prof. Suhyun Kim at Kyung Hee University (formerly at KIST), and will join The University of Texas at Austin as an incoming Ph.D. student.

My research interest is to leverage image/video generation models to solve challenging and complex real-world tasks, especially those related to human perception. I am driven by the philosophy of "Generate to Understand", echoing Feynman's dictum, "What I cannot create, I do not understand".

Beyond mere content creation, I aim to leverage generative models as fundamental instruments to solve complex real-world tasks. I believe that just as LLMs have evolved to reason and solve problems, vision generative models will ultimately serve as the key to perceiving, reasoning about, and understanding the physical world.

Email: climba (at) korea (dot) edu | Curriculum Vitae

📝 Publications

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Correlation-Weighted Multi-Reward Optimization for Compositional Generation

Jungmyung Wi, Hyunsoo Kim, Donghyun Kim.

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Self-Improving Diffusion Classifiers with Minority Preference Optimization

Hyunsoo Kim*, Jungmyung Wi*, Soobin Um, Donghyun Kim†, Suhyun Kim†.

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Safety-Aware Image-to-Image Translation without Paired Data

Hyunsoo Kim, Wonjun Lee, Donghyun Kim, Suhyun Kim.

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Consistency-Preserving Concept Erasure via Unsafe-Safe Pairing and Directional Fisher-weighted Adaptation

Yongwoo Kim*, Sungmin Cha*, Hyunsoo Kim, Jaewon Lee, Donghyun Kim. (*: Equal contribution)

ICML 2025

When Model Knowledge meets Diffusion Model: Diffusion-assisted Data-free Image Synthesis with Alignment of Domain and Class

Yujin Kim*, Hyunsoo Kim*, Hyunsoo J. Kim, Suhyun Kim. (*: Equal contribution)

CVPR 2025

Difference Inversion: Interpolate and Isolate the Difference with Token Consistency for Image Analogy Generation

Hyunsoo Kim, Donghyun Kim†, Suhyun Kim†.

đź’» Work Experience

  • 2024.09 - Present, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Graduate Researcher, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2024.03 - 2024.06, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Undergraduate Research Intern, Seoul, Korea.

🤝 Academic Services

  • Conference reviewer: AAAI, ICLR, CVPR

đź“– Educations

  • 2024.09 - Present, Korea University, M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (in progress).
  • 2018.03 - 2024.08, Inha University, B.S. in Statistics.