Junmo Kang

Ph.D. Student, Georgia Tech

School of Interactive Computing

Coda 1147M

junmo.kang [AT] gatech.edu

About

Hello! I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech advised by Alan Ritter and Wei Xu. Previously, I completed my M.S. in Computer Science at KAIST, where I started my NLP journey. I had a wonderful time interning at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab twice.

My research focuses on developing NLP models that are efficient and robust, with the goal of ensuring their practicality in real-world scenarios.

In particular, below are some keywords of my recent interests:

News

Research Experience

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Cambridge, MA, USA

Research Intern May. 2024 - Aug. 2024

Research Intern May. 2023 - Aug. 2023

Host: Leonid Karlinsky, Rogerio Feris

Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA, USA

Graduate Research Assistant (Ph.D.) Aug. 2022 - Present

Advisor: Alan Ritter, Wei Xu

KAIST IR&NLP Lab Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Research Associate Mar. 2021 - July. 2022

Graduate Research Assistant (M.S.) Feb. 2019 - Feb. 2021

Advisor: Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Publications

* indicates equal contribution.

Self-MoE: Towards Compositional Large Language Models with Self-Specialized Experts

Junmo Kang, Leonid Karlinsky, Hongyin Luo, Zhen Wang, Jacob Hansen, James Glass, David Cox, Rameswar Panda, Rogerio Feris, Alan Ritter

Preprint

Schema-Driven Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Tables

Fan Bai, Junmo Kang, Gabriel Stanovsky, Dayne Freitag, Mark Dredze, Alan Ritter

Preprint

Self-Specialization: Uncovering Latent Expertise within Large Language Models

Junmo Kang, Hongyin Luo, Yada Zhu, Jacob Hansen, James Glass, David Cox, Alan Ritter, Rogerio Feris, Leonid Karlinsky

ACL 2024 Findings

Why So Gullible? Enhancing the Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Models against Counterfactual Noise

Giwon Hong*, Jeonghwan Kim*, Junmo Kang*, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Joyce Jiyoung Whang

NAACL 2024 Findings

Distill or Annotate? Cost-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Compact Models

Junmo Kang, Wei Xu, Alan Ritter

ACL 2023

Graph-Induced Transformers for Efficient Multi-Hop Question Answering

Giwon Hong, Jeonghwan Kim, Junmo Kang, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

EMNLP 2022

Exploiting Numerical-Contextual Knowledge to Improve Numerical Reasoning in Question Answering

Jeonghwan Kim, Junmo Kang, Giwon Hong, Kyung-min Kim, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

NAACL 2022 Findings

Ultra-High Dimensional Sparse Representations with Binarization for Efficient Text Retrieval

Kyoung-Rok Jang, Junmo Kang, Giwon Hong, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Joohee Park, Taewon Yoon, Heecheol Seo

EMNLP 2021

Leveraging Order-Free Tag Relations for Context-Aware Recommendation

Junmo Kang, Jeonghwan Kim, Suwon Shin, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

EMNLP 2021

Have You Seen That Number? Investigating Extrapolation in Question Answering Models

Jeonghwan Kim, Giwon Hong, Kyung-min Kim, Junmo Kang, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

EMNLP 2021

Can You Distinguish Truthful from Fake Reviews? User Analysis and Assistance Tool for Fake Review Detection

Jeonghwan Kim*, Junmo Kang*, Suwon Shin*, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

HCI+NLP@EACL 2021

Regularization of Distinct Strategies for Unsupervised Question Generation

Junmo Kang*, Giwon Hong*, Haritz Puerto San Roman*, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

EMNLP 2020 Findings

Handling Anomalies of Synthetic Questions in Unsupervised Question Answering

Giwon Hong*, Junmo Kang*, Doyeon Lim*, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

COLING 2020

Let Me Know What to Ask: Interrogative-Word-Aware Question Generation

Junmo Kang*, Haritz Puerto San Roman*, Sung-Hyon Myaeng

MRQA@EMNLP 2019

Vitæ

Full CV in PDF.

  • MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab May. 2024 - Aug. 2024
    Research Intern
    Compositional LLMs of Self-Specialized Experts
  • MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab May. 2023 - Aug. 2023
    Research Intern
    Self-Alignment of LLMs for Specialization
  • Georgia Tech Aug. 2022 - Present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
  • KAIST IR&NLP Lab Mar. 2021 - July. 2022
    Research Associate
    QA & IR
  • KAIST Feb. 2019 - Feb. 2021
    M.S. in Computer Science
    IR&NLP Lab
  • Republic of Korea Army Apr. 2013 - Jan. 2015
    Honorably discharged as Sergeant
    Compulsory military service
  • Chungnam National University Mar. 2012 - Feb. 2019
    B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering
    Summa Cum Laude