2026.09
Two papers from our lab have been accepted to the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026, including one oral presentation (0.36% acceptance rate).
Beyond Family Labels: A Taxonomic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Prior for Avian 3D Shape Recovery (Oral)
Selected for an oral presentation, a distinction given to only 0.36% of all submissions. Co-first authored by our students Yunchan Jeon and SooGon Kim, with Seungwook Kim, CheolWon Lee, and Prof. Jongmin Lee. The paper introduces a taxonomic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck prior that transfers 3D shape knowledge along the phylogenetic tree, enabling accurate avian 3D shape recovery even for rarely observed species.
ProxySearch: Decoupled Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models via Asymmetric Noise-Rank Transfer
By Seungwook Kim and Prof. Jongmin Lee. ProxySearch decouples inference-time scaling from the base diffusion model: a distilled proxy model searches over noise candidates, and the discovered noise ranking transfers asymmetrically to the full model, improving generation quality at a fraction of the search cost.