Yoon Kim
NBX Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Yoon Kim is NBX Career Development Professor and an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He’s also affiliated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Kim conducts research in natural language processing and machine learning. He is interested in developing efficient methods for training and deploying large-scale models, using neuro-symbolic techniques to imbue humanlike inductive biases to computational models, and investigating connections between artificial and human language processing systems. Kim received a PhD in computer science from Harvard, an MS in data science from NYU, an MA in statistics from Columbia, and dual BA degrees in mathematics and economics from Cornell.
Selected Publications
- Karlinsky, L., Panda, R., Feris, R., Wang, Z., Kim, Y., Sun, H. (2023). Multitask Prompt Tuning Enables Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Cox, D., Karlinsky, L., Wang, P., Panda, R., Feris, R., Wang, Z., Kim, Y., Hennigen, L.T., and Greengard, P. (2023). Learning to Grow Pretrained Models for Efficient Transformer Training. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
- Li , Y., Panda, R., Kim, Y., Chen, C.F., Feris, R., Cox, D., and Vasconcelos, N. (2022). VALHALLA: Visual Hallucination for Machine Translation. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 5216-5226