Publications

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2026

Journal Articles

A probabilistic data-driven constitutive modeling framework for complex fluids

Nayeon Park, Sangwoong Yoon, Howon Jin, Jun Dong Park, Jin Suk Myung

Rheologica Acta, 2026Paper

BibTeX

@article{Park2026,
  author  = {Park, Nayeon and Yoon, Sangwoong and Jin, Howon and Park, Jun Dong and Myung, Jin Suk},
  title   = {A probabilistic data-driven constitutive modeling framework for complex fluids},
  journal = {Rheologica Acta},
  year    = {2026},
  month   = {9},
  volume  = {65},
  number  = {9},
  pages   = {785--804},
  doi     = {10.1007/s00397-026-01585-4},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00397-026-01585-4},
  issn    = {1435-1528}
}

Single cell multiomic landscape reveals gene programs driving lipid droplet heterogeneity in hepatic steatosis

Tejasav S. Sehrawat, Shawna A. Cooper, Amaia Navarro-Corcuera, Ryan J. Schulze, Mengfei Liu, Usman Yaqoob, Yubin Yeon, Sangwoong Yoon, Yung-Kyun Noh, Chady Meroueh, Joseph C. Ahn, Josepmaria Argemi, Ramon A. Bataller, Mark A. McNiven, Mrunal K. Dehankar, Ying Li, Jeong-Heon Lee, Carol A. Casey, William A. Faubion, Tamas Ordog, Patrick S. Kamath, Douglas A. Simonetto, Harmeet Malhi, Sheng Cao, Vijay H. Shah

Scientific Reports, 2026Paper

BibTeX

@article{Sehrawat2026,
  author   = {Sehrawat, Tejasav S. and Cooper, Shawna A. and Navarro-Corcuera, Amaia and Schulze, Ryan J. and Liu, Mengfei and Yaqoob, Usman and Yeon, Yubin and Yoon, Sangwoong and Noh, Yung-Kyun and Meroueh, Chady and Ahn, Joseph C. and Argemi, Josepmaria and Bataller, Ramon A. and McNiven, Mark A. and Dehankar, Mrunal K. and Li, Ying and Lee, Jeong-Heon and Casey, Carol A. and Faubion, William A. and Ordog, Tamas and Kamath, Patrick S. and Simonetto, Douglas A. and Malhi, Harmeet and Cao, Sheng and Shah, Vijay H.},
  title    = {Single cell multiomic landscape reveals gene programs driving lipid droplet heterogeneity in hepatic steatosis},
  journal  = {Scientific Reports},
  year     = {2026},
  volume   = {16},
  number   = {1},
  pages    = {10219},
  doi      = {10.1038/s41598-026-39913-6},
  url      = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39913-6},
  issn     = {2045-2322}
}

Conference Papers

GDSD: Reinforcement Learning as Guided Denoiser Self-Distillation for Diffusion Language Models

Xiaohang Tang, Keyue Jiang, Che Liu, Qifang Zhao, Xiaoxiao Xu, Sangwoong Yoon^†, Ilija Bogunovic^†

NeurIPS 2026Paper

BibTeX

@inproceedings{
tang2026gdsd,
  title={{GDSD}: Reinforcement Learning as Guided Denoiser Self-Distillation for Diffusion Language Models},
  author={Xiaohang Tang and Keyue Jiang and Che Liu and Qifang Zhao and Xiaoxiao Xu and Sangwoong Yoon and Ilija Bogunovic},
  booktitle={The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2026},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=WxO85pTOHz}
}

Rethinking Knowledge Distillation for Diffusion Language Models

Yuxuan Sun, Yuanjian Xu, Jianing Hao, Yu Li, Sowmen Das, Zhong Li, Sangwoong Yoon^†, Miguel R. D. Rodrigues^†

NeurIPS 2026Paper

BibTeX

@inproceedings{
sun2026rethinking,
  title={Rethinking Knowledge Distillation for Diffusion Language Models},
  author={Yuxuan Sun and Yuanjian Xu and Jianing Hao and Yu Li and Sowmen Das and Zhong Li and Sangwoong Yoon and Miguel R. D. Rodrigues},
  booktitle={The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2026},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=RwFzh7uPPD}
}

RSPO: Regularized Self-Play Alignment of Large Language Models

Xiaohang Tang^*, Sangwoong Yoon^*, Seongho Son, Huizhuo Yuan, Quanquan Gu, Ilija Bogunovic

ICML 2026arXiv

BibTeX

@inproceedings{tang2026rspo,
  author = {Tang, Xiaohang and Yoon, Sangwoong and Son, Seongho and Yuan, Huizhuo and Gu, Quanquan and Bogunovic, Ilija},
  title = {{RSPO}: Regularized Self-Play Alignment of Large Language Models},
  booktitle = {Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2503.00030},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00030}
}

Multi-Task GRPO: Reliable LLM Reasoning Across Tasks

Shyam Sundhar Ramesh, Xiaotong Ji, Matthieu Zimmer, Sangwoong Yoon, Zhiyong Wang, Haitham Bou Ammar, Aurelien Lucchi, Ilija Bogunovic

ICML 2026Paper

BibTeX

@inproceedings{
ramesh2026multitask,
title={Multi-Task {GRPO}: Reliable {LLM} Reasoning Across Tasks},
author={Shyam Sundhar Ramesh and Xiaotong Ji and Matthieu Zimmer and Sangwoong Yoon and Zhiyong Wang and Haitham Bou Ammar and Aurelien Lucchi and Ilija Bogunovic},
booktitle={Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=zA3KhRZ9A5}
}

Value Gradient Sampler: Learning Invariant Value Functions for Equivariant Diffusion Sampling

Himchan Hwang^*, Hyeokju Jeong^*, Dong Kyu Shin^*, Che-Sang Park, Sehee Kweon, Sangwoong Yoon^†, Frank C. Park^†

AISTATS 2026Paper

BibTeX

@inproceedings{
hwang2026value,
title={Value Gradient Sampler: Learning Invariant Value Functions for Equivariant Diffusion Sampling},
author={Himchan Hwang and Hyeokju Jeong and Dong Kyu Shin and Che-Sang Park and Sehee Kweon and Sangwoong Yoon and Frank C. Park},
booktitle={The 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
year={2026},
issn={2640-3498},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=YmV7Sc80YK}
}

wd1: Weighted Policy Optimization for Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models

Xiaohang Tang^*, Rares Dolga^*, Sangwoong Yoon^†, Ilija Bogunovic^†

ICLR 2026Paper

BibTeX

@inproceedings{
tang2026wd,
title={wd1:  Weighted Policy Optimization for Reasoning in Diffusion Language Models},
author={Xiaohang Tang and Rares Dolga and Sangwoong Yoon and Ilija Bogunovic},
booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=L2rfd2Czbj}
}

Robust Multi-Objective Controlled Decoding of Large Language Models

Seongho Son^*, William Bankes^*, Sangwoong Yoon^*, Shyam Sundhar Ramesh^*, Xiaohang Tang, Ilija Bogunovic

ICLR 2026Paper

BibTeX

@inproceedings{
son2026robust,
title={Robust Multi-Objective Controlled Decoding of Large Language Models},
author={Seongho Son and William Bankes and Sangwoong Yoon and Shyam Sundhar Ramesh and Xiaohang Tang and Ilija Bogunovic},
booktitle={The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2026},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=i0Nno5MgXt}
}