Jaesik Yoon

ML Developer at SAP and Ph.D student at KAIST

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I’m a senior machine learning developer at SAP. I work on the development of intelligent agents on SAP’s products, especially on SAP HANA Cloud.

Besides, I’m a Ph.D. student at SoC at KAIST under the supervision of Prof. Sungjin Ahn. My research interests are in the diverse inductive biases to extend the generality of AI.

In the past, I worked in Samsung Electronics and graduated from KAIST.

news

Oct 29, 2025 Our paper Compositional Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for Extendable Planning is released on Arxiv!
Oct 23, 2025 Our paper Loopholing Discrete Diffusion: Deterministic Bypass of the Sampling Wall is released on Arxiv!
Sep 19, 2025 Our three papers are accepted in NeurIPS 2025 and two of them are accepted as Spotlights (top 3.2% of submissions)!

latest posts

Jun 16, 2025 Inference-Time Scaling with Verifiers: Democratizing AI Reasoning

selected publications

  1. Compositional Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for Extendable Planning
    Jaesik Yoon, Hyeonseo Cho, and Sungjin Ahn
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
    Spotlight (top 3.2% of submissions)
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  2. Fast Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion: 100x Speedup via Parallel Sparse Planning
    Jaesik Yoon*, Hyeonseo Cho*, Yoshua Bengio, and 1 more author
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025
    *Equal contribution, Spotlight (top 3.2% of submissions)
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  3. Monte Carlo Tree Diffusion for System 2 Planning
    Jaesik Yoon, Hyeonseo Cho, Doojin Baek, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2025
    Spotlight (top 2.6% of submissions)
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  4. Spatially-Aware Transformers for Embodied Agents
    Junmo Cho*, Jaesik Yoon*, and Sungjin Ahn
    In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024
    *Equal contribution, Spotlight (top 5% of submissions)
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  5. Sequential neural processes
    Gautam Singh*, Jaesik Yoon*, Youngsung Son, and 1 more author
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2019
    * Equal contribution, Spotlight (top 2% of submissions)
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  6. Bayesian model-agnostic meta-learning
    Jaesik Yoon*, Taesup Kim*, Ousmane Dia, and 3 more authors
    Advances in neural information processing systems, 2018
    * Equal contribution, Spotlight (top 3% of submissions)
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