Jihoo Jung

PhD student, KAIST

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I am currently a first-year Ph.D. student at MMAI lab, advised by Professor Joon Son Chung. I am interested in understanding and reasoning about the real world through audio, with broader research interests in audio-visual LLMs, agentic systems, and joint audio-visual generative models.

Education

  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea (Sep. 2026 -)
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea (Aug. 2024 - Aug. 2026)
  • Seoul National University, South Korea (Mar. 2019 - Jul. 2024)
    • B.S. in Economics and Computer Science (double major)
    • Summa cum laude

Publications

4 papers · 2 first-author

C = Conference · J = Journal · P = Preprint · * = Equal contribution

  1. arXiv
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    [P2] OmniKVQuant: KV Cache Quantization for Omni-LLMs
    Suho Yoo*, Hyunjong Ok*, Jongmin Choi, Jihoo Jung, and 1 more author
    Preprint, 2026
    arXiv Code
  2. arXiv
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    [P1] Tracing Audio Grounding and Answer Selection in Audio LLMs
    Hyebin Cho, Suho Yoo, Jihoo Jung, and Joon Son Chung
    Preprint, 2026
    arXiv
  3. ICML
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    [C2] Probing Cross-modal Information Hubs in Audio-Visual LLMs
    Jihoo Jung, Chaeyoung Jung, Ji-Hoon Kim, and Joon Son Chung
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
    arXiv OpenReview Code Poster
  4. ICASSP
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    [C1] UNMIXX: Untangling Highly Correlated Singing Voices Mixtures
    Jihoo Jung, Ji-Hoon Kim, Doyeop Kwak, Junwon Lee, and 2 more authors
    International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026
    arXiv Code Demo