Hello, I'm Byung Hyun Lee

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Intelligent Computational Imaging Lab (advised by Prof. Se Young Chun) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University. I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UNIST.

My research centers on selective knowledge updates for deep visual and foundation models β€” how to add new knowledge or remove unwanted knowledge while preserving what a model already knows. I have studied this through continual learning and concept erasure approaches, essential for agentic/physical AI, vertical-AI, and visual generative AI. I am currently extending these ideas to multimodal LLMs, omnimodal models, and domain-specialized models, aiming at adaptive and reliable knowledge updates that efficiently scale to real-world settings.


News

  • Feb 2026  ETC (Erasing Thousands of Concepts) has been accepted to CVPR 2026. πŸŽ‰
  • Feb 2026  Prompt-free Instance Unlearning has been accepted to the CVPR 2026 Workshop on Machine Unlearning for Computer Vision.
  • Jan 2026  Contributed to HyperCLOVA X 8B Omni and HyperCLOVA X 32B Think as part of NAVER Cloud’s national AI foundation-model project.
  • Nov 2025  Selected as a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Korea finalist. πŸ†
  • Oct 2025  Joined NAVER Cloud as a visiting researcher on Korea’s national AI foundation-model project. ✈️
  • Aug 2025  Won 2nd place (team lead) in the MICCAI Pan-Asia gigapixel-WSI report-generation challenge. πŸ₯‡
  • Aug 2025  Received the Yulchon AI Star Scholarship (Youlchon Foundation & SNU AI Institute).
  • Jul 2025  CoMEL (continual learning for histopathology WSI analysis) has been accepted to ICCV 2025. πŸŽ‰
  • Mar 2025  GLoCE (training-free localized concept erasure) has been accepted to CVPR 2025. πŸŽ‰
  • Feb 2025  CPE (concept pinpoint eraser) has been accepted to ICLR 2025. πŸŽ‰

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution.

Erasing Thousands of Concepts: Towards Scalable and Practical Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Erasing Thousands of Concepts: Towards Scalable and Practical Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Hoigi Seo * , Byung Hyun Lee * , Jaehyun Cho , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun
CVPR, 2026

Scales selective concept erasure to 2,000+ concepts while preserving the remaining ones, via optimal transport and mixture-of-experts updates.

Continual Multiple Instance Learning with Enhanced Localization for Histopathological Whole Slide Image Analysis

Continual Multiple Instance Learning with Enhanced Localization for Histopathological Whole Slide Image Analysis

ICCV, 2025

Memory-free continual learning for gigapixel pathology slides, preserving both diagnosis and localization across a stream of organs.

Localized Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Using Training-Free Gated Low-Rank Adaptation

Localized Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Using Training-Free Gated Low-Rank Adaptation

Byung Hyun Lee * , Sungjin Lim * , Se Young Chun
CVPR, 2025

Training-free, spatially localized concept erasure that removes only the target while keeping the rest of the image intact.

Concept Pinpoint Eraser for Text-to-image Diffusion Models via Residual Attention Gate

Concept Pinpoint Eraser for Text-to-image Diffusion Models via Residual Attention Gate

Byung Hyun Lee * , Sungjin Lim * , Seunggyu Lee , Dong Un Kang , Se Young Chun
ICLR, 2025

A residual attention gate that erases target concepts from diffusion models while preserving the generation of remaining concepts.

Doubly Perturbed Task-Free Continual Learning

Doubly Perturbed Task-Free Continual Learning

Byung Hyun Lee , Min-hwan Oh , Se Young Chun
AAAI, 2024 Oral

Future-aware online continual learning that improves stability and plasticity through doubly perturbed training.

Online Continual Learning on Hierarchical Label Expansion

Online Continual Learning on Hierarchical Label Expansion

Byung Hyun Lee * , Okchul Jung * , Jonghyun Choi , Se Young Chun
ICCV, 2023

Hierarchy-aware memory management for online continual learning under streaming, label-expanding data.

Other Publications

Unlearning the Unpromptable: Prompt-free Instance Unlearning in Diffusion Models

K. R. Lee, K. H. Lee, S. Hong, B. H. Lee, S. Y. Chun
CVPR Workshop on Machine Unlearning for Computer Vision, 2026

Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Remote Photoplethysmography Estimation

H. Lee, H. Lee, B. H. Lee, S. Y. Chun
IEEE Access, 2025

Towards Accelerating Model Parallelism in Distributed Deep Learning Systems

H. Choi, B. H. Lee, S. Y. Chun, J. Lee
PLOS One, 2023

Selective Concept Erasing for Safe Diffusion Models

B. H. Lee, S. Lim, S. Y. Chun
Korea Signal Processing Conference (Best Poster Award), 2024

Expert Classifier Ensemble-based Post-processing Correction for Unbiased Scene Graph Generation

S. Lee, B. H. Lee, S. Y. Chun
Workshop on Image Processing and Image Understanding (IPIU), 2024

Efficient Single-Image Depth Estimation on Mobile Devices (Mobile AI & AIM 2022 Challenge: Report)

A. Ignatov et al. (incl. B. H. Lee)
ECCV Workshops, 2022

Uncertainty-based Dual-Domain Low-Dose X-ray CT Reconstruction

S. Lee, D. U. Kang, B. H. Lee, S. Y. Chun
Korea Signal Processing Conference, 2022

Preprints & Under Review

Strong Helps Weak: Directional Cross-Modal Alignment Transfer in Multi-modal LLMs

Under review, 2026

Speculative Encoding for Efficient Gigapixel Whole Slide Image Analysis

Under review, 2026

HYPERION: Joint-Hierarchy Hyperbolic Fine-Tuning for Histopathology Slide Representations

Under review, 2026

RePath: Zero-Shot Tumor Segmentation in Gigapixel WSIs via Differential Intra-Slide Patch Affinity

Under review, 2026

HyperCLOVA X 8B Omni

HyperCLOVA X Team, NAVER Cloud (incl. B. H. Lee)
Technical report, 2026

HyperCLOVA X 32B Think

HyperCLOVA X Team, NAVER Cloud (incl. B. H. Lee)
Technical report, 2026