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Jinwoo Shin

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · Computer Science

About the Lab

Professor Jinwoo Shin's research lab specializes in advancing the reliability and robustness of deep learning systems, with a strong focus on out-of-distribution detection, class-imbalance mitigation, and representation learning. The lab develops novel regularization techniques, such as self-knowledge distillation and contrastive learning with distributionally shifted augmentations, to improve model generalization and reduce overconfidence. Key research directions include uncertainty estimation, distribution shift detection, and data augmentation strategies that enhance minority class generalization. The lab's work bridges theoretical insights with practical applications in real-world machine learning systems.

out-of-distribution detectionclass imbalancerepresentation learningself-knowledge distillationcontrastive learning

Research Overview

Papers
375
Total Citations
6,661
Papers (5y)
135
Primary Field
Computer Science

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
135total
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Citations per year (5y)
627total
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Selected Papers

15
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Preprint|976 citations·2018
A Simple Unified Framework for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Samples and Adversarial Attacks
Kimin Lee, Kibok Lee, Honglak Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Detecting test samples drawn sufficiently far away from the training distribution statistically or adversarially is a fundamental requirement for deploying a good classifier in many real-world machine learning applications. However, deep neural networks with the softmax classifier are known to produce highly overconfident posterior distributions even for such abnormal samples. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method for detecting any abnormal samples, which is applicable to any p

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
2
Preprint|365 citations·2017
Training Confidence-calibrated Classifiers for Detecting Out-of-Distribution Samples
Kimin Lee, Honglak Lee, Kibok Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

The problem of detecting whether a test sample is from in-distribution (i.e.,\ntraining distribution by a classifier) or out-of-distribution sufficiently\ndifferent from it arises in many real-world machine learning applications.\nHowever, the state-of-art deep neural networks are known to be highly\noverconfident in their predictions, i.e., do not distinguish in- and\nout-of-distributions. Recently, to handle this issue, several threshold-based\ndetectors have been proposed given pre-trained ne

Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyDecision Sciences
3
Preprint|305 citations·2020
Regularizing Class-Wise Predictions via Self-Knowledge Distillation
Sukmin Yun, Jongjin Park, Kimin Lee, Jinwoo Shin

Deep neural networks with millions of parameters may suffer from poor generalization due to overfitting. To mitigate the issue, we propose a new regularization method that penalizes the predictive distribution between similar samples. In particular, we distill the predictive distribution between different samples of the same label during training. This results in regularizing the dark knowledge (i.e., the knowledge on wrong predictions) of a single network (i.e., a self-knowledge distillation) b

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
4
Article|268 citations·2009
Network adiabatic theorem
Shreevatsa Rajagopalan, Devavrat Shah, Jinwoo Shin
OA

The popularity of Aloha-like algorithms for resolution of contention between multiple entities accessing common resources is due to their extreme simplicity and distributed nature. Example applications of such algorithms include Ethernet and recently emerging wireless multi-access networks. Despite a long and exciting history of more than four decades, the question of designing an algorithm that is essentially as simple and distributed as Aloha while being efficient has remained unresolved.

Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
5
Preprint|230 citations·2020
CSI: Novelty Detection via Contrastive Learning on Distributionally Shifted Instances
Jihoon Tack, Sangwoo Mo, Jongheon Jeong, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Novelty detection, i.e., identifying whether a given sample is drawn from outside the training distribution, is essential for reliable machine learning. To this end, there have been many attempts at learning a representation well-suited for novelty detection and designing a score based on such representation. In this paper, we propose a simple, yet effective method named contrasting shifted instances (CSI), inspired by the recent success on contrastive learning of visual representations. Specifi

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
6
Article|226 citations·2020
M2m: Imbalanced Classification via Major-to-Minor Translation
Jaehyung Kim, Jongheon Jeong, Jinwoo Shin

In most real-world scenarios, labeled training datasets are highly class-imbalanced, where deep neural networks suffer from generalizing to a balanced testing criterion. In this paper, we explore a novel yet simple way to alleviate this issue by augmenting less-frequent classes via translating samples (e.g., images) from more-frequent classes. This simple approach enables a classifier to learn more generalizable features of minority classes, by transferring and leveraging the diversity of the ma

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
7
Article|200 citations·2021
Co2L: Contrastive Continual Learning
Hyuntak Cha, Jaeho Lee, Jinwoo Shin
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised learning show that such algorithms learn visual representations that can be transferred better to unseen tasks than cross-entropy based methods which rely on task-specific supervision. In this paper, we found that the similar holds in the continual learning context: contrastively learned representations are more robust against the catastrophic forgetting than ones trained with the cross-entropy objective. Based on this novel observation, we propose a rehea

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
8
Article|155 citations·2010
Distributed Random Access Algorithm: Scheduling and Congestion Control
Libin Jiang, Devavrat Shah, Jinwoo Shin, Jean Walrand
SJR Q1IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

This paper provides proofs of the rate stability, Harris recurrence, and ε-optimality of carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) algorithms where the random access (or backoff) parameter of each node is adjusted dynamically. These algorithms require only local information and they are easy to implement. The setup is a network of wireless nodes with a fixed conflict graph that identifies pairs of nodes whose simultaneous transmissions conflict. The paper studies two algorithms. The first algorithm s

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
9
Article|126 citations·2012
Randomized scheduling algorithm for queueing networks
Devavrat Shah, Jinwoo Shin
SJR Q1The Annals of Applied ProbabilityOA

There has recently been considerable interest in design of low-complexity, myopic, distributed and stable scheduling algorithms for constrained queueing network models that arise in the context of emerging communication networks. Here we consider two representative models. One, a queueing network model that captures randomly varying number of packets in the queues present at a collection of wireless nodes communicating through a shared medium. Two, a buffered circuit switched network model for a

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
10
Preprint|122 citations·2020
Freeze the Discriminator: a Simple Baseline for Fine-Tuning GANs
Sangwoo Mo, Minsu Cho, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown outstanding performance on a wide range of problems in computer vision, graphics, and machine learning, but often require numerous training data and heavy computational resources. To tackle this issue, several methods introduce a transfer learning technique in GAN training. They, however, are either prone to overfitting or limited to learning small distribution shifts. In this paper, we show that simple fine-tuning of GANs with frozen lower layer

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
11
Article|104 citations·2019
MetaSense
Taesik Gong, Yeonsu Kim, Jinwoo Shin, Sung-Ju Lee

Recent improvements in deep learning and hardware support offer a new breakthrough in mobile sensing; we could enjoy context-aware services and mobile healthcare on a mobile device powered by artificial intelligence. However, most related studies perform well only with a certain level of similarity between trained and target data distribution, while in practice, a specific user's behaviors and device make sensor inputs different. Consequently, the performance of such applications might suffer in

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
12
Article|102 citations·2023
Video Probabilistic Diffusion Models in Projected Latent Space
Sihyun Yu, Kihyuk Sohn, Subin Kim, Jinwoo Shin

Despite the remarkable progress in deep generative models, synthesizing high-resolution and temporally coherent videos still remains a challenge due to their high-dimensionality and complex temporal dynamics along with large spatial variations. Recent works on diffusion models have shown their potential to solve this challenge, yet they suffer from severe computation and memory-inefficiency that limit the scalability. To handle this issue, we propose a novel generative model for videos, coined p

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
13
Book Chapter|39 citations·2024
Improving Diffusion Models for Authentic Virtual Try-on in the Wild
Yisol Choi, Sangkyung Kwak, Kyungmin Lee, Hyungwon Choi, Jinwoo Shin
SJR Q2Lecture notes in computer science
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided DesignComputer Science
14
Article|16 citations·2011
Complexity of Bethe Approximation
Jinwoo Shin
arXiv (Cornell University)OA

This paper resolves a common complexity issue in the Bethe approximation of statistical physics and the sum-product Belief Propagation (BP) algorithm of artificial intelligence. The Bethe approximation reduces the problem of computing the partition function in a graphical model to that of solving a set of non-linear equations, so-called the Bethe equation. On the other hand, the BP algorithm is a popular heuristic method for estimating marginal distribution in a graphical model. Although they ar

Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
15
Article|10 citations·2014
The Complexity of Approximating a Bethe Equilibrium
Jinwoo Shin
SJR Q1IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

This paper resolves a common complexity issue in the Bethe approximation of statistical physics and the belief propagation (BP) algorithm of artificial intelligence. The Bethe approximation and the BP algorithm are heuristic methods for estimating the partition function and marginal probabilities in graphical models, respectively. The computational complexity of the Bethe approximation is decided by the number of operations required to solve a set of nonlinear equations, the so-called Bethe equa

Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science

Research Areas

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionElectrical and Electronic EngineeringComputer Networks and CommunicationsStatistical and Nonlinear PhysicsManagement Science and Operations Research

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