Daewon Choi
Graduate student at KAIST
KAIST AI
daeone0920 [AT] kaist.ac.kr
About
I am a Ph.D. student at Algorithmic Intelligence Laboratory (ALIN-LAB), advised by Prof. Jinwoo Shin at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). I received my B.S. in Industrial Management Engineering and Computer Science at Korea University in 2024. My recent research interests focus on practical problems (e.g., efficiency, safety) of multimodal/language foundation models.
Publications
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
Myungkyu Koo*, Daewon Choi*, Taeyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
Preprint 2025
Think Clearly: Improving Reasoning via Redundant Token Pruning
Daewon Choi, Jimin Lee, Jihoon Tack, Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan, Sravan Babu Bodapati
EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
ICML Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models (ES-FoMo III), 2025
Mamba Drafters for Speculative Decoding
Daewon Choi, Seunghyuk Oh, Saket Dingliwal, Jihoon Tack, Woomin Song, Seojin Kim, Insu Han, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan, Shubham Katiyar, Sravan Babu Bodapati
EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
ICML Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models (ES-FoMo III), 2025
Adversarial Robustification via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Daewon Choi*, Jongheon Jeong*, Huiwon Jang, Jinwoo Shin
ECCV 2024, Oral Presentation
Modality-agnostic Self-supervised Learning with Meta-Learned Masked Auto-encoder
Huiwon Jang*, Jihoon Tack*, Daewon Choi, Jongheon Jeong, Jinwoo Shin
NeurIPS 2023
3D GAN Inversion with Pose Optimization
Jaehoon Ko*, Kyusun Cho*, Daewon Choi, Kwangrok Ryoo, Seungryong Kim
WACV 2023
AE-NeRF: Auto-Encoding Neural Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Object Manipulation
Mira Kim*, Jaehoon Ko*, Kyusun Cho, Junmyeong Choi, Daewon Choi, Seungryong Kim
Preprint 2022
HAMLET: Switch your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
Myungkyu Koo*, Daewon Choi*, Taeyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo†, Jinwoo Shin†
Preprint 2025
Think Clearly: Improving Reasoning via Redundant Token Pruning
Daewon Choi, Jimin Lee, Jihoon Tack, Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan, Sravan Babu Bodapati
EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
ICML Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models (ES-FoMo III), 2025
Mamba Drafters for Speculative Decoding
Daewon Choi, Seunghyuk Oh, Saket Dingliwal, Jihoon Tack, Woomin Song, Seojin Kim, Insu Han, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan, Shubham Katiyar, Sravan Babu Bodapati
EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
ICML Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models (ES-FoMo III), 2025
Adversarial Robustification via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Daewon Choi*, Jongheon Jeong*, Huiwon Jang, Jinwoo Shin
ECCV 2024, Oral Presentation
Modality-agnostic Self-supervised Learning with Meta-Learned Masked Auto-encoder
Huiwon Jang*, Jihoon Tack*, Daewon Choi, Jongheon Jeong, Jinwoo Shin
NeurIPS 2023
3D GAN Inversion with Pose Optimization
Jaehoon Ko*, Kyusun Cho*, Daewon Choi, Kwangrok Ryoo, Seungryong Kim
WACV 2023
AE-NeRF: Auto-Encoding Neural Radiance Fields for 3D-Aware Object Manipulation
Mira Kim*, Jaehoon Ko*, Kyusun Cho, Junmyeong Choi, Daewon Choi, Seungryong Kim
Preprint 2022
Education
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Feb. 2024 - Present
M.S & Ph.D. Student in Artificial Intelligence
Korea UniversityFeb. 2020 - Feb. 2024
B.S. in Industrial Management Engineering and Computer Science
GPA: 4.29/4.5 (Great Honors)
Experience
Research CollaborationNov. 2024 - Current
Undergraduate Research InternFeb. 2023 - Feb. 2024
Meta-Learning Team in ALIN-LAB
Undergraduate Research InternJan. 2022 - Dec. 2022
3D Vision Team in CVLAB
Honors & Awards
Recipient, National Science & Technology Scholarship
Dean's List, Korea University College of Engineering (2021S)