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Publications (46)

cs.CR2026

DITTO: A Spoofing Attack Framework on Watermarked LLMs via Knowledge Distillation

Hyeseon An, Shinwoo Park, Suyeon Woo +1

The promise of LLM watermarking rests on a core assumption that a specific watermark proves authorship by a specific model. We demonstrate that this assumption is dangerously flawe…

cs.CL2026

Obfuscation Rules for Detecting and Detoxifying Korean Toxicity

Yejin Lee, Su-Hyeon Kim, Hyundong Jin +3

As language models become increasingly deployed in online environments, toxicity detection and detoxification have received growing attention. Existing studies primarily focus on n…

cs.CL2022

LST: Lexicon-Guided Self-Training for Few-Shot Text Classification

Hazel Kim, Jaeman Son, Yo-Sub Han

Self-training provides an effective means of using an extremely small amount of labeled data to create pseudo-labels for unlabeled data. Many state-of-the-art self-training approac…

cs.CR2026

Marking Code Without Breaking It: Code Watermarking for Detecting LLM-Generated Code

Jungin Kim, Shinwoo Park, Yo-Sub Han

Identifying LLM-generated code through watermarking poses a challenge in preserving functional correctness. Previous methods rely on the assumption that watermarking high-entropy t…

cs.PL2025

ECO: Enhanced Code Optimization via Performance-Aware Prompting for Code-LLMs

Su-Hyeon Kim, Joonghyuk Hahn, Sooyoung Cha +1

Code runtime optimization-the task of rewriting a given code to a faster one-remains challenging, as it requires reasoning about performance trade-offs involving algorithmic and st…

cs.DC2013

A Speculative Parallel DFA Membership Test for Multicore, SIMD and Cloud Computing Environments

Yousun Ko, Minyoung Jung, Yo-Sub Han +1

We present techniques to parallelize membership tests for Deterministic Finite Automata (DFAs). Our method searches arbitrary regular expressions by matching multiple bytes in para…

cs.AI2026

ContractEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Contract-Satisfying Assertions in Code Generation

Soohan Lim, Joonghyuk Hahn, Hyunwoo Park +2

Current code generation evaluation measures functional correctness on well-formed inputs that satisfy all input preconditions. This paradigm has a critical limitation: task descrip…

cs.DM2019

A general architecture of oritatami systems for simulating arbitrary finite automata

Yo-Sub Han, Hwee Kim, Yusei Masuda +1

In this paper, we propose an architecture of oritatami systems with which one can simulate an arbitrary nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA) in a unified manner. The oritatami s…

cs.AI2026

How Does the Thinking Step Influence Model Safety? An Entropy-based Safety Reminder for LRMs

Su-Hyeon Kim, Hyundong Jin, Yejin Lee +1

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve remarkable success through explicit thinking steps, yet the thinking steps introduce a novel risk by potentially amplifying unsafe behaviors.…

cs.AI2026

CRaFT: Circuit-Guided Refusal Feature Selection via Cross-Layer Transcoders

Su-Hyeon Kim, Hyundong Jin, Yejin Lee +1

While modern LLMs are aligned to refuse harmful requests, it is essential to understand the underlying mechanistic basis of this refusal behavior for model safety analysis. For exa…

cs.AI2026

Detection of LLM-Paraphrased Code and Identification of the Responsible LLM Using Coding Style Features

Shinwoo Park, Hyundong Jin, Jeong-won Cha +1

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) for code generation has raised serious concerns about intellectual property protection. Malicious users can exploit LLMs to produce…

cs.CL2021

ALP: Data Augmentation using Lexicalized PCFGs for Few-Shot Text Classification

Hazel Kim, Daecheol Woo, Seong Joon Oh +2

Data augmentation has been an important ingredient for boosting performances of learned models. Prior data augmentation methods for few-shot text classification have led to great p…

cs.AI2025

MECO: Multi-Expert Consensus for Code Time Complexity Prediction

Joonghyuk Hahn, Soohan Lim, Yo-Sub Han

Predicting the complexity of source code is essential for software development and algorithm analysis. Recently, Baik et al. (2025) introduced CodeComplex for code time complexity…

cs.AI2025

RegexPSPACE: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Reasoning on PSPACE-complete Regex Problems

Hyundong Jin, Joonghyuk Hahn, Yo-Sub Han

Large language models (LLMs) show strong performance across natural language processing (NLP), mathematical reasoning, and programming, and recent large reasoning models (LRMs) fur…

cs.FL2010

Nondeterministic State Complexity for Suffix-Free Regular Languages

Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa

We investigate the nondeterministic state complexity of basic operations for suffix-free regular languages. The nondeterministic state complexity of an operation is the number of s…

cs.SE2024

Impact of Large Language Models of Code on Fault Localization

Suhwan Ji, Sanghwa Lee, Changsup Lee +2

Identifying the point of error is imperative in software debugging. Traditional fault localization (FL) techniques rely on executing the program and using the code coverage matrix…

cs.CL2026

DLM-SWAI: Steering Diffusion Language Models Before They Unmask

Hyeseon An, Yo-Sub Han

Steering language model generation toward desired textual properties is essential for practical deployment, and inference-time methods are particularly appealing because they enabl…

cs.CL2026

Steering Language Models Before They Speak: Logit-Level Interventions

Hyeseon An, Shinwoo Park, Hyundong Jin +1

Controllable generation requires language models to realize output characteristics such as reading level, politeness, and toxicity. Existing steering methods are often indirect, re…

cs.AI2026

Cross-Family Universality of Behavioral Axes via Anchor-Projected Representations

Su-Hyeon Kim, Yo-Sub Han

Large language models from different families use different hidden dimensions, tokenizers, and training procedures, making behavioral directions difficult to compare or transfer ac…

cs.PL2026

ReSyn: A Generalized Recursive Regular Expression Synthesis Framework

Seongmin Kim, Hyunjoon Cheon, Su-Hyeon Kim +2

Existing Programming-By-Example (PBE) systems often rely on simplified benchmarks that fail to capture the high structural complexity of real-world regexes, such as deeper nesting…

cs.CY2025

TRAPDOC: Deceiving LLM Users by Injecting Imperceptible Phantom Tokens into Documents

Hyundong Jin, Sicheol Sung, Shinwoo Park +2

The reasoning, writing, text-editing, and retrieval capabilities of proprietary large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, providing users with an ever-expanding set of fu…

cs.CL2023

ATHENA: Mathematical Reasoning with Thought Expansion

JB. Kim, Hazel Kim, Joonghyuk Hahn +1

Solving math word problems depends on how to articulate the problems, the lens through which models view human linguistic expressions. Real-world settings count on such a method ev…

cs.CL2026

Adaptive Steering and Remasking for Safe Generation in Diffusion Language Models

Yejin Lee, Yo-Sub Han

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) provide a promising alternative to autoregressive language models by generating text through iterative denoising and bidirectional refinement. Howe…

cs.CL2026

Linguistics-Aware Non-Distortionary LLM Watermarking

Shinwoo Park, Hyejin Park, Hyeseon An +1

Watermarking should identify language-model output without degrading quality or limiting verification to the model provider. Multilingual deployment makes this harder because morph…

cs.CL2026

EPIC: Efficient and Parallel Inference under CFG Constraints for Diffusion Language Models

Hyundong Jin, Yo-Sub Han

Controlling language model outputs is essential for ensuring structural validity, reliability, and downstream usability, and diffusion language models are no exception. Recent adva…

cs.SE2025

LogiCase: Effective Test Case Generation from Logical Description in Competitive Programming

Sicheol Sung, Aditi, Dogyu kim +2

Automated Test Case Generation (ATCG) is crucial for evaluating software reliability, particularly in competitive programming where robust algorithm assessments depend on diverse a…

cs.SE2024

CodeComplex: Dataset for Worst-Case Time Complexity Prediction

Seung-Yeop Baik, Joonghyuk Hahn, Jungin Kim +4

Reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a crucial ability, especially in complex decision-making tasks. One significant task to show LLMs' reasoning capability is code…

cs.FL2018

Site-Directed Insertion: Decision Problems, Maximality and Minimality

Da-Jung Cho, Yo-Sub Han, Kai Salomaa +1

Site-directed insertion is an overlapping insertion operation that can be viewed as analogous to the overlap assembly or chop operations that concatenate strings by overlapping a s…

cs.FL2017

Outfix-guided insertion

Da-Jung Cho, Yo-Sub Han, Timothy Ng +1

Motivated by work on bio-operations on DNA strings, we consider an outfix-guided insertion operation that can be viewed as a generalization of the overlap assembly operation on str…

cs.AI2025

Repairing Regex Vulnerabilities via Localization-Guided Instructions

Sicheol Sung, Joonghyuk Hahn, Yo-Sub Han

Regular expressions (regexes) are foundational to modern computing for critical tasks like input validation and data parsing, yet their ubiquity exposes systems to regular expressi…

cs.CL2025

SAGE:Specification-Aware Grammar Extraction for Automated Test Case Generation with LLMs

Aditi, Hyunwoo Park, Sicheol Sung +2

Grammar-based test case generation has proven effective for competitive programming problems, but generating valid and general grammars from natural language specifications remains…

cs.AI2025

WaterMod: Modular Token-Rank Partitioning for Probability-Balanced LLM Watermarking

Shinwoo Park, Hyejin Park, Hyeseon Ahn +1

Large language models now draft news, legal analyses, and software code with human-level fluency. At the same time, regulations such as the EU AI Act mandate that each synthetic pa…

cs.CC2019

Cyclic Oritatami Systems Cannot Fold Infinite Fractal Curves

Yo-Sub Han, Hwee Kim

RNA cotranscriptional folding is the phenomenon in which an RNA transcript folds upon itself while being synthesized out of a gene. The oritatami system (OS) is a computation model…

cs.SE2025

TCProF: Time-Complexity Prediction SSL Framework

Joonghyuk Hahn, Hyeseon Ahn, Jungin Kim +2

Time complexity is a theoretic measure to determine the amount of time the algorithm needs for its execution. In reality, developers write algorithms into code snippets within limi…

cs.CL2026

RV-HATE: Reinforced Multi-Module Voting for Implicit Hate Speech Detection

Yejin Lee, Hyeseon Ahn, Yo-Sub Han

Hate speech remains prevalent in human society and continues to evolve in its forms and expressions. Modern advancements in internet and online anonymity accelerate its rapid sprea…

cs.CL2024

A Framework for Quantum Finite-State Languages with Density Mapping

SeungYeop Baik, Sicheol Sung, Yo-Sub Han

A quantum finite-state automaton (QFA) is a theoretical model designed to simulate the evolution of a quantum system with finite memory in response to sequential input strings. We…

cs.AI2026

STAB: Specification-driven Testing for Algorithmic Bottlenecks

Soohan Lim, Joonghyuk Hahn, Hyundong Jin +1

Evaluating the efficiency of algorithmic code requires test cases that expose runtime bottlenecks. Previous methods generate efficiency test cases either by increasing input size o…

cs.LG2022

Neuro-Symbolic Regex Synthesis Framework via Neural Example Splitting

Su-Hyeon Kim, Hyunjoon Cheon, Yo-Sub Han +1

Due to the practical importance of regular expressions (regexes, for short), there has been a lot of research to automatically generate regexes from positive and negative string ex…

cs.CR2026

Sequential Behavioral Watermarking for LLM Agents

Hyeseon An, Shinwoo Park, Dongsu Kim +1

LLM-based agents act through sequences of executable decisions, but their trajectories provide little evidence of which agent or policy produced them, making provenance, ownership,…

cs.AI2025

URECA: The Chain of Two Minimum Set Cover Problems exists behind Adaptation to Shifts in Semantic Code Search

Seok-Ung Choi, Joonghyuk Hahn, Yo-Sub Han

Adaptation is to make model learn the patterns shifted from the training distribution. In general, this adaptation is formulated as the minimum entropy problem. However, the minimu…

cs.CL2025

AmpleHate: Amplifying the Attention for Versatile Implicit Hate Detection

Yejin Lee, Joonghyuk Hahn, Hyeseon Ahn +1

Implicit hate speech detection is challenging due to its subtlety and reliance on contextual interpretation rather than explicit offensive words. Current approaches rely on contras…

cs.DC2018

OPERA: Reasoning about continuous common knowledge in asynchronous distributed systems

Sang-Min Choi, Jiho Park, Quan Nguyen +5

This paper introduces a new family of consensus protocols, namely \emph{Lachesis-class} denoted by , for distributed networks with guaranteed Byzantine fault tolerance…

cs.CL2025

KatFishNet: Detecting LLM-Generated Korean Text through Linguistic Feature Analysis

Shinwoo Park, Shubin Kim, Do-Kyung Kim +1

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) increases the difficulty of distinguishing between human-written and LLM-generated text. Detecting LLM-generated text is cruci…

cs.CL2026

When LLM Essays Outscore Student Essays: What a Korean Writing Rubric Rewards and Where Readers Disagree

Shinwoo Park, Yo-Sub Han

LLMs now help students plan, draft, and revise essays. Educational assessment therefore faces a basic question: how should student and LLM writing be compared? Rubrics assign point…

cs.CL2026

NCO: A Versatile Plug-in for Handling Negative Constraints in Decoding

Hyundong Jin, Yo-Sub Han

Controlling Large Language Models (LLMs) to prevent the generation of undesirable content, such as profanity and personally identifiable information (PII), has become increasingly…

cs.CL2026

A Linguistics-Aware LLM Watermarking via Syntactic Predictability

Shinwoo Park, Hyejin Park, Hyeseon An +1

As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance rapidly, reliable governance tools have become critical. Publicly verifiable watermarking is particularly essential for fosterin…