Jongbeom Lee

Jongbeom Lee

Integrated M.S./Ph.D. Student in Electronic Engineering
Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

I am advised by Prof. Suk-Ju Kang in the VIDS Lab, and I received my B.S. in Computer Engineering from Hansung University.

My research focuses on efficient AI: making large models lighter and faster at inference. I am particularly interested in token pruning, sparse attention, and KV cache compression for multimodal and generative models.

  • Efficient AI
  • Sparse Attention
  • Multimodal Models
Portrait of Jongbeom Lee

News

  1. OpenAttention is out on arXiv, with its project page and code.
  2. SparSTAR is out on arXiv, with its project page and code.
  3. Started the integrated M.S./Ph.D. program at Sogang University.

Publications

* Equal contribution  ·  † Corresponding author

Preprints

OpenAttention overview: query-geometry clustering, ErrorGate, top-k selection and count-aware cluster proxies

arXiv 2026

OpenAttention: One Percent Is Enough with Tail Proxies

Hyunwoo Yu, Jongbeom Lee, Hyunbin Kim, Sungjun Park, Jaemin Choi, Jincheol Yang, Seunghun Moon, Bongjoon Hyun, Kyomin Sohn, Kyeongbo Kong, Suk-Ju Kang

Sparse attention that folds the unread tail of the KV cache into a few count-aware cluster proxies, with an ErrorGate that spends the exact-read budget on the clusters with the largest estimated error. Keeps 99% of dense accuracy at a 1% read on RULER-32K HARD with Llama-3.1-8B, and its kernel runs decode attention 10× faster than dense at a 1% read.

Workshop Papers

ICML 2026 Workshop on Resource-Adaptive Foundation Model Inference (AdaptFM)

Reducing Attention Distribution Error with Unified Tail Aggregation for Sparse Attention

Hyunwoo Yu*, Jongbeom Lee*, Jaemin Choi*, Jincheol Yang*, Yubin Cho*, Joonsik Nam, Seunghun Moon, Jung-Woo Chang, Bongjoon Hyun, Kyomin Sohn, Kyeongbo Kong, Suk-Ju Kang†

Shows that the Top-K oracle used to evaluate sparse attention in video diffusion transformers cuts off the tail of the attention distribution, and proposes a low-delta oracle policy with Unified Tail Aggregation, which adds one aggregated logit to restore it. Up to 97.4% lower MSE than the Top-K oracle at 50% sparsity.

Education

  1. Sogang University

    Integrated M.S./Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, VIDS Lab
    Advisor: Prof. Suk-Ju Kang

  2. Hansung University

    B.S. in Computer Engineering