Recent News

• Mar 2024 - Visited UPenn to give a talk at the NLP group seminar! So many insightful discussions!
• Feb 2024 - We gave a talk at Google about our recent work, Confaide! It was exciting to be there!
• Jan 2024 - Confaide has been accepted at ICLR 2024 as spotlight! Woot woot!
• Dec 2023 - 🏆 SODA won the outstanding paper award at EMNLP! What a journey it has been!
• Dec 2023 - I gave a talk at the BrainLink symposium! It was exciting to participate as a speaker!
• Nov 2023 - 🥤SODA and FANToM are selected for oral presentation at EMNLP! See you in Singapore!
• Oct 2023 - We released 👻FANToM and 🤫ConfAIde benchmark! GPT-4 struggles with social reasoning!
• Aug 2023 - I won the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from Seoul National University CSE! Thank you!

Publications ^{_{(* equal contribution)}}

• Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
  The Misleading Success of Simulating Social Interactions With LLMs
  Xuhui Zhou, Zhe Su, Tiwalayo Eisape, Hyunwoo Kim, Maarten Sap
  arXiv 2024
  [ paper ]


• Alpaca against Vicuna: Using LLMs to Uncover Memorization of LLMs
  Aly M. Kassem*, Omar Mahmoud*, Niloofar Mireshghallah*, Hyunwoo Kim, Yulia Tsvetkov, Yejin Choi, Sherif Saad, Santu Rana
  arXiv 2024
  [ paper ]


• Deal, or no deal (or who knows)? Forecasting Uncertainty in Conversations using Large Language Models
  Anthony Sicilia, Hyunwoo Kim, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Malihe Alikhani, Jack Hessel
  arXiv 2024
  [ paper ]


• Can LLMs Keep a Secret?
  Testing Privacy Implications of Language Models via Contextual Integrity Theory
  Hyunwoo Kim*, Niloofar Mireshghallah*, Xuhui Zhou, Yulia Tsvetkov, Maarten Sap, Reza Shokri, Yejin Choi
  ICLR 2024  ✶ Spotlight
  [ paper / webpage ]


• FANToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind in Interactions
  Hyunwoo Kim, Melanie Sclar, Xuhui Zhou, Ronan Le Bras, Gunhee Kim, Yejin Choi, Maarten Sap
  EMNLP 2023
  [ paper / webpage / tldr ]


• SODA: Million-scale Dialogue Distillation with Social Commonsense Contextualization
  Hyunwoo Kim, Jack Hessel, Liwei Jiang, Peter West, Ximing Lu, Youngjae Yu, Pei Zhou, Ronan Le Bras, Malihe Alikhani, Gunhee Kim, Maarten Sap, and Yejin Choi
  EMNLP 2023  ✶ Outstanding Paper
  [ paper / github / tldr ]


• ProsocialDialog: A Prosocial Backbone for Conversational Agents
  Hyunwoo Kim*, Youngjae Yu*, Liwei Jiang, Ximing Lu, Daniel Khashabi, Gunhee Kim,
  Yejin Choi, and Maarten Sap
  EMNLP 2022
  [ paper / github / tldr ]


• Perspective-taking and Pragmatics for
  Generating Empathetic Responses Focused on Emotion Causes
  Hyunwoo Kim, Byeongchang Kim, and Gunhee Kim
  EMNLP 2021
  Also accepted at 2021 NeurIPS Meaning in Context (MiC) workshop as a contributed talk
  [ paper / github / workshop ]


• KLUE: Korean Language Understanding Evaluation
  Sungjoon Park*, Jihyung Moon*, Sungdong Kim*, Won Ik Cho*, ..., Hyunwoo Kim, ...,
  Alice Oh**, Jung-Woo Ha**, Kyunghyun Cho** (31 authors)
  NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021
  [ paper / benchmark ]


• How Robust are Fact Checking Systems on Colloquial Claims?
  Byeongchang Kim*, Hyunwoo Kim*, Seokhee Hong, and Gunhee Kim
  NAACL-HLT 2021
  Also accepted to 2021 ICLR Neural Conversational AI (NeuCAIR) workshop
  [ paper / github / workshop ]


• Will I Sound Like Me?
  Improving Persona Consistency in Dialogues through Pragmatic Self-Consciousness
  Hyunwoo Kim, Byeongchang Kim, and Gunhee Kim
  EMNLP 2020
  Earlier version accepted at 2020 ICLR Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS) workshop as a contributed talk
  [ paper / github / slides / workshop ]


• Curiosity Bottleneck: Exploration by Distilling Task-Specific Novelty
  Youngjin Kim, Hyunwoo Kim*, Wontae Nam*, Jihoon Kim, and Gunhee Kim
  ICML 2019
  [ paper / github / slides ]


• Abstractive Summarization of Reddit Posts with Multi-level Memory Networks
  Byeongchang Kim, Hyunwoo Kim, and Gunhee Kim
  NAACL-HLT 2019
  [ paper / github / slides ]

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