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Sung-Yoon Lee

Hanyang University · 情報科学

研究室紹介

Professor Sung-Yoon Lee's research lab specializes in advancing the robustness, generalization, and interpretability of deep learning models, with a strong focus on adversarial robustness, certifiable defenses, and memorization in generative models. The lab investigates fundamental mechanisms behind model vulnerabilities—particularly through gradient dynamics, loss landscape smoothness, and distributional alignment—and develops novel regularization and training strategies such as Gradient Diversity (GradDiv) and bridged adversarial training. Recent work also explores geometric and curvature-based diagnostics for detecting overfitting and memorization in diffusion models. The lab bridges theoretical analysis with practical deep learning solutions to enhance model reliability and privacy.

adversarial robustnesscertifiable defensegradient diversitymemorization detectiondiffusion models

Research Overview

Papers
19
Total Citations
85
Papers (5y)
18
Primary Field
情報科学

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
18total
2021
2022
2023
2024
2026
Citations per year (5y)
78total
20212022202320242026

Selected Papers

15
1
Article|54 citations·2022
GradDiv: Adversarial Robustness of Randomized Neural Networks via Gradient Diversity Regularization
Sungyoon Lee, Hoki Kim, Jaewook Lee
SJR Q1IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Deep learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Many defenses based on randomized neural networks have been proposed to solve the problem, but fail to achieve robustness against attacks using proxy gradients such as the Expectation over Transformation (EOT) attack. We investigate the effect of the adversarial attacks using proxy gradients on randomized neural networks and demonstrate that it highly relies on the directional distribution of the loss gradients of the randomized neural network

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
2
Article|7 citations·2018
Defensive denoising methods against adversarial attack
Sungyoon Lee, Jaewook Lee
Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
3
Article|7 citations·2021
Towards Better Understanding of Training Certifiably Robust Models against Adversarial Examples
Sungyoon Lee, Woojin Lee, J.-G. Park, Jaewook Lee
Neural Information Processing Systems
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
4
Article|6 citations·2023
Bridged adversarial training
Hoki Kim, Woojin Lee, Sungyoon Lee, Jaewook Lee, Sungyoon Lee, Jaewook Lee
SJR Q1Neural Networks
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
5
Article|4 citations·2022
Variational cycle-consistent imputation adversarial networks for general missing patterns
Woojin Lee, Sungyoon Lee, Junyoung Byun, Hoki Kim, Jaewook Lee
SJR Q1Pattern Recognition
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
6
Article|3 citations·2021
Loss Landscape Matters: Training Certifiably Robust Models with Favorable Loss Landscape
Sungyoon Lee, Woojin Lee, J.-G. Park, Jaewook Lee

In this paper, we study the problem of training certifiably robust models. Certifiable training minimizes an upper bound on the worst-case loss over the allowed perturbation, and thus the tightness of the upper bound is an important factor in building certifiably robust models. However, many studies have shown that Interval Bound Propagation (IBP) training uses much looser bounds but outperforms other models that use tighter bounds. We identify another key factor that influences the performance

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
7
Article|2 citations·2024
Sliced Wasserstein adversarial training for improving adversarial robustness
Woojin Lee, Sungyoon Lee, Hoki Kim, Jaewook Lee
SJR Q1Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized ComputingOA

Abstract Recently, deep-learning-based models have achieved impressive performance on tasks that were previously considered to be extremely challenging. However, recent works have shown that various deep learning models are susceptible to adversarial data samples. In this paper, we propose the sliced Wasserstein adversarial training method to encourage the logit distributions of clean and adversarial data to be similar to each other. We capture the dissimilarity between two distributions using t

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
8
Preprint|2 citations·2021
GradDiv: Adversarial Robustness of Randomized Neural Networks via Gradient Diversity Regularization
Sungyoon Lee, Hoki Kim, Jaewook Lee
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Deep learning is vulnerable to adversarial examples. Many defenses based on randomized neural networks have been proposed to solve the problem, but fail to achieve robustness against attacks using proxy gradients such as the Expectation over Transformation (EOT) attack. We investigate the effect of the adversarial attacks using proxy gradients on randomized neural networks and demonstrate that it highly relies on the directional distribution of the loss gradients of the randomized neural network

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
9
Article|0 citations·2023
Human Activity Recognition for Pedestrians with Mobility Disabilities
Woo,, Sungjin Hwang, Sungyoon Lee, Youngwug Cho, Myungwon Kang, Hansung Kim, Jaehyuk Cha, Kwanguk Kim
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)OA

This is a dataset on 'Human Activity Recognition for Pedestrians with Mobility Disabilities'.

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
10
Preprint|0 citations·2026
Parallel Tempering Initial Sampling in Inference-Time Reward Alignment
Myeongjun Oh, Gwangho Kim, Sungyoon Lee
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Inference-time reward alignment steers pretrained diffusion and flow-based generative models to satisfy user-specified rewards without retraining. Recently, Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) has emerged as a powerful framework for this task by iteratively filtering and propagating multiple particles. However, we show that standard SMC-based methods often suffer from poor performance because they initialize particles from a standard prior, whereas high-reward regions in complex reward landscapes are e

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
11
Article|0 citations·2026
Parallel Tempering Initial Sampling in Inference-Time Reward Alignment
Myeongjun Oh, Gwangho Kim, Sungyoon Lee
ArXiv.orgOA

Inference-time reward alignment steers pretrained diffusion and flow-based generative models to satisfy user-specified rewards without retraining. Recently, Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) has emerged as a powerful framework for this task by iteratively filtering and propagating multiple particles. However, we show that standard SMC-based methods often suffer from poor performance because they initialize particles from a standard prior, whereas high-reward regions in complex reward landscapes are e

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
12
Preprint|0 citations·2026
Localizing Memorized Regions in Diffusion Models via Coordinate-Wise Curvature Differences
Gwangho Kim, Sungyoon Lee
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Diffusion models can unintentionally memorize training samples, raising concerns about privacy and copyright. While recent methods can detect memorization, they often rely on global or model-specific signals and provide limited insight into where memorization appears within a generated image. We provide a geometric characterization of local memorization as a coordinate-wise variance collapse. However, such collapse can also arise from intrinsic data constraints rather than overfitting. To isolat

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
13
Preprint|0 citations·2026
Inconsistency-Aware Minimization: Improving Generalization with Unlabeled Data
Hee-Sung Kim, Hyeonseong Kim, Sungyoon Lee
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Estimating the generalization gap and developing optimization methods that improve generalization are crucial for deep learning models, for both theoretical understanding and practical applications. Leveraging unlabeled data for these purposes offers significant advantages in real-world scenarios. This paper introduces a novel generalization measure, local inconsistency, derived from an information-geometric perspective on the parameter space of neural networks. A key feature of local inconsiste

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
14
Article|0 citations·2026
Localizing Memorized Regions in Diffusion Models via Coordinate-Wise Curvature Differences
Gwangho Kim, Sungyoon Lee
ArXiv.orgOA

Diffusion models can unintentionally memorize training samples, raising concerns about privacy and copyright. While recent methods can detect memorization, they often rely on global or model-specific signals and provide limited insight into where memorization appears within a generated image. We provide a geometric characterization of local memorization as a coordinate-wise variance collapse. However, such collapse can also arise from intrinsic data constraints rather than overfitting. To isolat

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
15
Article|0 citations·2026
Gradient Descent with Large Step Size Restores Symmetry in Deep Linear Networks with Multi-Pathway
Hee-Sung Kim, Sungyoon Lee
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Recent analyses of multi-pathway Deep Linear Networks use Gradient Flow to predict a "winner-takes-all" specialization in which path symmetry breaks and each feature concentrates in a single pathway. In this work, we show that discrete Gradient Descent (GD) with a large step size tells a different story. We prove that single-path solutions are sharp minima, whereas distributing signals across pathways reduces sharpness by a factor that decreases with both the number of pathways and depth. Conseq

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science

Research Areas

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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