Jihwan Kim

Hi 👋, I am Jihwan. I am currently an integrated M.S./Ph.D. student at KAIST GSAI, advised by Professor Jaegul Choo. My research interests lie in the evaluation of agents, speech and audio processing, and multilingual LLMs.

I have worked on:

Building an evaluation suite for web browsing agents;
Building effective audio detection and contributing an open-source full-duplex audio pipeline;
Synthesizing data that converts unverifiable multilingual RLVR tasks into verifiable ones.

Fun fact: I finally built something with my day6.ai.kr domain 🙂 — come and have a look!

Please feel free to contact me via email at jihvvan.kim@kaist.ac.kr.

News

Sep 08, 2026	Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2026 — cross-lingual RLVR via code-switched task synthesis to the main conference, and a next-scene-prediction benchmark for omni-models to Findings. 🎉
May 20, 2026	Two papers accepted to ACL 2026 — Adaptive Table Retrieval to Findings, and Sommelier to the Industry Track.
Mar 26, 2026	New preprint on speech: Sommelier — scalable, open multi-turn audio pre-processing for full-duplex speech language models.
Jan 22, 2026	LiveWeb-IE was accepted to ICLR 2026 as a poster. 🎉
Jan 06, 2026	The HyperCLOVA X 8B Omni and 32B Think technical reports are out on arXiv.

Selected Publications

EMNLP

From Unverifiable Domain Text to Cross-Lingual RLVR via Code-Switched Task Synthesis

Cheonbok Park^*, Jihwan Kim^*, Shinyoung Joo, Joosung Lee, Hwiyeol Jo, Jeonghoon Kim, and Jaegul Choo

In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). *Equal contribution , 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{park2026unverifiable,
  title = {From Unverifiable Domain Text to Cross-Lingual RLVR via Code-Switched Task Synthesis},
  author = {Park, Cheonbok and Kim, Jihwan and Joo, Shinyoung and Lee, Joosung and Jo, Hwiyeol and Kim, Jeonghoon and Choo, Jaegul},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year = {2026},
}

EMNLP Findings

Can Omni-models Imagine the Future? A Next Scene Prediction Benchmark for Multimodal World Modeling

Junyeob Kim, Jihwan Kim, Minha Jhang, Sungwook Jeon, Hwiyeol Jo, Jeonghoon Kim, Sang-goo Lee, and Joosung Lee

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{kim2026omni,
  title = {Can Omni-models Imagine the Future? A Next Scene Prediction Benchmark for Multimodal World Modeling},
  author = {Kim, Junyeob and Kim, Jihwan and Jhang, Minha and Jeon, Sungwook and Jo, Hwiyeol and Kim, Jeonghoon and Lee, Sang-goo and Lee, Joosung},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026},
  year = {2026},
}

ICLR

LiveWeb-IE: A Benchmark For Online Web Information Extraction

Seungbin Yang^*, Jihwan Kim^*, Jaemin Choi, Dongjin Kim, Soyoung Yang, ChaeHun Park, and Jaegul Choo

In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). *Equal contribution. Poster , 2026

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{yang2026liveweb,
  title = {LiveWeb-IE: A Benchmark For Online Web Information Extraction},
  author = {Yang, Seungbin and Kim, Jihwan and Choi, Jaemin and Kim, Dongjin and Yang, Soyoung and Park, ChaeHun and Choo, Jaegul},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
}

ACL Findings

Retrieve Only Relevant Tables Whether Few or Many: Adaptive Table Retrieval Method

Taehee Kim, Seungbin Yang, Jihwan Kim, and Jaegul Choo

In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, 2026

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{kim2026retrieve,
  title = {Retrieve Only Relevant Tables Whether Few or Many: Adaptive Table Retrieval Method},
  author = {Kim, Taehee and Yang, Seungbin and Kim, Jihwan and Choo, Jaegul},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  year = {2026},
}

ACL

Sommelier: Scalable Open Multi-turn Audio Pre-processing for Full-duplex Speech Language Models

Kyudan Jung, Jihwan Kim, Soyoon Kim, Jeonghoon Kim, Jaegul Choo, and Cheonbok Park

In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Industry Track, 2026

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{jung2026sommelier,
  title = {Sommelier: Scalable Open Multi-turn Audio Pre-processing for Full-duplex Speech Language Models},
  author = {Jung, Kyudan and Kim, Jihwan and Kim, Soyoon and Kim, Jeonghoon and Choo, Jaegul and Park, Cheonbok},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): Industry Track},
  year = {2026},
}