Jin Myung Kwak
Author directory2026
Multimodal Collaborative Debate for Zero-Shot Time Series Reasoning
Patara Trirat | Jin Myung Kwak | Jay Heo | Heejun Lee | Sung Ju Hwang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Patara Trirat | Jin Myung Kwak | Jay Heo | Heejun Lee | Sung Ju Hwang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as natural-language interfaces to structured data, yet they remain brittle when reasoning over time series. Visual patterns can be misleading, numerical claims can be hallucinated, and textual context can override evidence from the signal. We study *zero-shot* time-series reasoning as a multimodal evidence arbitration problem for LLM agents. We propose **TS-Debate**, an inference-time multi-agent protocol that requires no task-specific fine-tuning. TS-Debate first elicits relevant domain knowledge, then assigns modality-specialized agents to textual context, visual patterns, and numerical signals, and coordinates their interaction through a verification-conflict-calibration procedure. Reviewer agents check decision-critical claims with lightweight code execution and numerical lookup, resolve cross-modal disagreement, and calibrate the final answer. Unlike generic multi-agent debate or unconstrained tool use, TS-Debate specifies how evidence is exposed, which claims are checkable, and how verification outcomes shape synthesis. Across 20 tasks from three public benchmarks, TS-Debate improves classification and question answering performance over strong baselines, while revealing that debate is most useful for global-structure and cross-view reasoning rather than local value reconstruction.
2023
Language Detoxification with Attribute-Discriminative Latent Space
Jin Myung Kwak | Minseon Kim | Sung Ju Hwang
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jin Myung Kwak | Minseon Kim | Sung Ju Hwang
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Transformer-based Language Models (LMs) have achieved impressive results on natural language understanding tasks, but they can also generate toxic text such as insults, threats, and profanity, limiting their real-world applications. To overcome this issue, a few text generation approaches aim to detoxify toxic texts using additional LMs or perturbations. However, previous methods require excessive memory, computations, and time which are serious bottlenecks in their real-world application. To address such limitations, we propose an effective yet efficient method for language detoxification using an attribute-discriminative latent space. Specifically, we project the latent space of an original Transformer LM onto a discriminative latent space that well-separates texts by their attributes using a projection block and an attribute discriminator. This allows the LM to control the text generation to be non-toxic with minimal memory and computation overhead. We validate our model, Attribute-Discriminative Language Model (ADLM) on detoxified language and dialogue generation tasks, on which our method significantly outperforms baselines both in performance and efficiency.