Daewon Choi

Ph.D. student, ALIN-LAB @ KAIST

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I am a Ph.D. student at the Algorithmic Intelligence Laboratory (ALIN-LAB), advised by Prof. Jinwoo Shin at KAIST. I received my B.S. in Industrial Management Engineering and Computer Science from Korea University in 2024.

My research aims to make multimodal and language foundation models efficient and reliably deployable under real-world constraints, without relying on costly retraining. I am also collaborating with Amazon AGI on related directions.

News

May 2026 RLDX-1 Technical Report is out on arXiv!
Jan 2026 HAMLET is accepted to ICLR 2026.
Aug 2025 Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings: Think Clearly and Mamba Drafters.
Sep 2024 Adversarial Robustification via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models is accepted to ECCV 2024 as an oral presentation!
Feb 2024 Started integrated M.S. & Ph.D. program at KAIST, advised by Prof. Jinwoo Shin.

Selected Publications

*Equal contribution · Equal advising

  1. Preprint
    RLDX-1 Technical Report
    arXiv 2026
  2. ICLR
    HAMLET: Switch Your Vision-Language-Action Model into a History-Aware Policy
    ICLR 2026
  3. EMNLP
    Think Clearly: Improving Reasoning via Redundant Token Pruning
    EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
  4. EMNLP
    Mamba Drafters for Speculative Decoding
    EMNLP 2025 (Findings)
  5. ECCV
    Adversarial Robustification via Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    ECCV 2024, Oral Presentation (200/8585=2.3%)

Selected Honors

Silver Reviewer (top reviewer), ICML 2026
Recipient, National Science & Technology Scholarship, Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2022 - 2023
1st Place, AI Hackathon, Korea University, 2023
Recipient, Alumni Association Scholarship, Korea University, 2021, 2022
Recipient, Dean's List, 2021S

Academic Services

Conference Reviewer NeurIPS'26, ICLR'26, ICML'26, ACL'26, CVPR'26, ECCV'26