Hyunmin Cho

Hi! I'm a integrated MS&Ph.D student at Korea University, Image Processing Algorithm Lab. advised by Prof. Kyong Hwan Jin.

My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between human imagination and digital reality, creating a world that is seamlessly modifiable according to user intention. To that end, my research focuses on Generative Models and Controllable Generation, with an emphasis on understanding the internal dynamics of diffusion models and developing principled, training-free methods that steer sampling toward more faithful, diverse, and hallucination-resistant outputs.

Feel free to send me an e-mail if you want to have a chat!
Contact: hyun_cho@korea.ac.kr

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ECCV 2026 Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
Recurrent Sinusoidal INRs for Efficient High-Fidelity Representation: Harmonic-line Spectrum Perspective
19th European Conference on Computer Vision

Reusing one sinusoidal block recurrently expands spectral support without extra parameters: by Jacobi–Anger, each sine step creates new frequency combinations.

ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷
Balancing Fidelity and Diversity in Diffusion Models via Symmetric Attention Decomposition: Hopfield Perspective
Hyunmin Cho, Woo Kyoung Han, and Kyong Hwan Jin
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning

We characterize the pre-softmax attention matrix QK in transformers as an associative memory matrix encoding pairwise associations between input features.

ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷
TAG: Tangential Amplifying Guidance for Hallucination-Resistant Sampling
Hyunmin Cho*, Donghoon Ahn* , Susung Hong* , Jee Eun Kim, Seungryong Kim , and Kyong Hwan Jin * Equal contribution
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning

We introduce TAG, a theoretically grounded, training-free, computationally lightweight, and architecture-agnostic guidance method that operates solely on trajectory signals without modifying the underlying diffusion model.

ECCV 2026 Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
ReAL: Reference-to-Image (R2I)-Aware Latent Diffusion for Image Super-Resolution
Byeonghun Lee , Hyunmin Cho, Sunghoon Im, and Kyong Hwan Jin
19th European Conference on Computer Vision

ReAL grounds diffusion SR in retrieved visual references rather than text priors. It encodes a matched reference once and reuses its cached attention features throughout denoising, enabling reference-driven texture and structure recovery without CFG.

ICCV 2025 Hawaii, USA 🇺🇸
Reference-based Super-Resolution via Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation Diffusion
Byeonghun Lee* , Hyunmin Cho*, Hong Gyu Choi, Soo Min Kang, Iljun Ahn, and Kyong Hwan Jin * Equal contribution
20th International Conference on Computer Vision

We propose an image-based RAG framework (iRAG) for realistic super-resolution, using a trainable hashing function to retrieve either real-world or generated references from an LR query.

CVPR 2025 Nashville, USA 🇺🇸
Towards Lossless Implicit Neural Representation via Bit Plane Decomposition
38th Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

We introduce a bit-plane decomposition that enables lossless implicit neural representations, allowing exact reconstruction of digital signals with continuous networks.


Integrated M.S & Ph.D in Electrical Engineering | Korea University
Mar 2024 - cont.

Research: Generative Model & Hopfield Model
Advisor: Prof. Kyong Hwan Jin
B.S in Software | Gachon University
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024

Research: Image Super Resolution
Advisor: Prof. Kiho Choi (currently in Kyung Hee University)


  • Samsung Research (Next Generation Display Lab), Development of user-preferred image-based image quality technology, 2024.06-2025.05
  • Samsung Research (Next Generation Display Lab), Uncertainty-Aware Temporal Relation Reasoning under Missing Video Evidence, 2026.01-2026.12

  • Method and Apparatus for Lossless Implicit Neural Representation Based on Bipolar Vector Labeling and Recursive Single Weight Operation
    Hyunmin Cho, Kyong Hwan Jin, Yongjun Lee, Jiwon Kim, Woo Kyoung Han
    Korea Patent Application No. 10-2025-0150878


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