
Jeonghoon Kim
Team Lead
About
I am a research scientist and team lead at NAVER Cloud, working on large-scale foundation models. My research focuses on understanding how pre-training, model architecture, and data shape the learning dynamics and capabilities of Transformer models. My work spans foundation model pre-training, multilingual and multimodal learning, and model compression. I aim to bridge fundamental research and large-scale model production, turning empirical insights into more efficient AI systems.
Work Experience
NAVER Cloud
Dec.2021 - Present
NAVER (opens in a new tab)’s cloud and AI company, building the HyperCLOVA X (opens in a new tab) foundation models and NAVER Cloud Platform (opens in a new tab).
Foundation Research, Team Leader
Focus areas
- LLM Fundamental Research — Pre-training dynamics & Transformer architecture [1, 2, 3]
- (Early 2026) Designed the team’s first mid-training stage, introduced it into model production, and established it as a process continuously applied in production.
- Pathfinding of HyperCLOVA X modeling (Technical Report: 2024 (opens in a new tab), 2025 (opens in a new tab), 2026 (opens in a new tab))
- Korean Expert Development — In charge of improving the Korean-language capabilities of HyperCLOVA X. [8, 12, 16]
- AudioLLM Mission — Project Manager for the development of duplex and interaction models. [11, 13, 14]
Earlier work
- (2025) Omni-foundation models and multilinguality of large-scale Transformers [9]
- Served as Mission Lead for Omni-Pathfinding.
- (2021–2023) Model compression & quantization [4, 5, 6, 7]
Promotions
- Team Leader, Foundation Research Team, Hyperscale AI Division, 2025
- Technical Leader, Foundation Research Team, 2024
- Technical Leader, Hyperscale AI Efficiency Team, 2023
- LLM Fundamental Research — Pre-training dynamics & Transformer architecture [1, 2, 3]
LG Energy Solution
Nov.2020 - Nov.2021
Business Strategy, Data Scientist
Nepes
Jan.2018 - Oct.2020
Future Intelligence, Researcher
- Military service (South Korea).
Education
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
Mar.2025 - 2027 (expected)
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST (opens in a new tab))
Advisor: Prof. Jinwoo Shin (opens in a new tab)
Alongside my full-time role at NAVER Cloud, I am pursuing a Ph.D. in AI at KAIST under Prof. Jinwoo Shin, supported by a NAVER Cloud grant.
Publications
*equal contribution
Lead author
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- Paper: Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- arXiv: Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Code: Rethinking Channel Dimensions to Isolate Outliers for Low-bit Weight Quantization of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
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Co-author
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- Paper: ReflexiCoder: Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Reflect on Generated Code and Self-Correct It via Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- arXiv: ReflexiCoder: Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Reflect on Generated Code and Self-Correct It via Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Code: ReflexiCoder: Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Reflect on Generated Code and Self-Correct It via Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
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- Paper: LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- arXiv: LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Code: LUT-GEMM: Quantized Matrix Multiplication based on LUTs for Efficient Inference in Large-Scale Generative Language Models (opens in a new tab)
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Service
Reviewing
- International Conference on Machine Learning
- Neural Information Processing Systems
- International Conference on Learning Representations
- Association for Computational Linguistics
Tech blog
- Technical curator of the CLOVA Tech Blog (opens in a new tab) (NAVER Cloud)