Jimin Lee

M.S. Student at KAIST AI

jiminl [AT] kaist.ac.kr

About

I am a 1st year M.S. & Ph.D. student at Algorithmic Intelligence Laboratory (ALIN-LAB), advised by Prof. Jinwoo Shin at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). I received my B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering at Korea University in 2025.

My goal is to build intelligent systems that can perceive, understand, and interact with the world in a human-like manner. To this end, my research focuses on Robotics Foundation Models and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models. In particular, I am interested in extending VLA models with additional multimodal inputs that enable better cross-modal alignment and more precise robot control.

Publications

Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo, Jinwoo Shin

Preprint

Think Clearly: Improving Reasoning via Redundant Token Pruning

Daewon Choi, Jimin Lee, Jihoon Tack, Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan, Sravan Babu Bodapati

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025 (Findings)
ICML Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models (ES-FoMo III), 2025

SoccerNet 2024 Challenges Results

SoccerNet Challenge Participants

CVPR Workshop on SoccerNet Challenge, 2024

Contrastive Representation Regularization for Vision-Language-Action Models

Taeyoung Kim, Jimin Lee, Myungkyu Koo, Dongyoung Kim, Kyungmin Lee, Changyeon Kim, Younggyo Seo, Jinwoo Shin

Preprint

Think Clearly: Improving Reasoning via Redundant Token Pruning

Daewon Choi, Jimin Lee, Jihoon Tack, Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin, Aram Galstyan, Sravan Babu Bodapati

Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025 (Findings)
ICML Workshop on Efficient Systems for Foundation Models (ES-FoMo III), 2025

SoccerNet 2024 Challenges Results

SoccerNet Challenge Participants

CVPR Workshop on SoccerNet Challenge, 2024

Education

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
M.S./Ph.D student in Artificial Intelligence
Sep. 2025 –
Korea University
B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering
Feb. 2020 – Aug. 2025

Experience

Honors and Awards

2nd Place, CVPR Workshop 2024 SoccerNet Challenge Multi-View Foul Recognition

Jun. 2024

Academic Services

Workshop Reviewer: ES-FoMo III @ ICML 2025