Jun Hyeong Kim
Author directory2026
AdaPath: Query-Adaptive Path-Finding via Path-Bank for Multi-Hop Implicit Biomedical KGQA
Jun Hyeong Kim | Dongki Kim | Yinhua Piao | Sung Ju Hwang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Jun Hyeong Kim | Dongki Kim | Yinhua Piao | Sung Ju Hwang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Path-finding over knowledge graphs has become an effective way to ground LLM reasoning on multi-hop questions. However, biomedical QA introduces two distinct challenges that general-domain methods are not designed for: (i) queries do not expose intermediate reasoning and can be answered through multiple valid pathways, and (ii) biomedical knowledge graphs are densely connected, so path-finding methods easily take wrong turns. To address these challenges, we propose AdaPath, a path-finding framework that retrieves query-adaptive meta-paths from Path-Bank, which captures both query semantics and biomedical knowledge graph structure. AdaPath provides the missing cues in biomedical queries while effectively pruning dense knowledge graph neighborhoods during multi-hop reasoning. We further release BioStrat-QA, a biomedical KGQA benchmark that stratifies multi-hop queries by how much intermediate reasoning they expose. Across biomedical KGQA benchmarks, AdaPath consistently outperforms baselines, sustaining meaningful path-finding even when multi-hop queries expose less surface information. The source code is available at https://github.com/Jun-Hyeong-Kim/AdaPath.
2025
MV-CLAM: Multi-View Molecular Interpretation with Cross-Modal Projection via Language Model
Sumin Ha | Jun Hyeong Kim | Yinhua Piao | Changyun Cho | Sun Kim
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Sumin Ha | Jun Hyeong Kim | Yinhua Piao | Changyun Cho | Sun Kim
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025
Deciphering molecular meaning in chemistry and biomedicine depends on context — a capability that large language models (LLMs) can enhance by aligning molecular structures with language. However, existing molecule-text models ignore complementary information in different molecular views and rely on single-view representations, limiting molecule structural understanding. Moreover, naïve multi-view alignment strategies face two challenges: (1) the aligned spaces differ across views due to inconsistent molecule-text mappings, and (2) existing loss objectives fail to preserve complementary information necessary for finegrained alignment. To enhance LLM’s ability to understand molecular structure, we propose MV-CLAM, a novel framework that aligns multi-view molecular representations into a unified textual space using a multi-querying transformer (MQ-Former). Our approach ensures cross-view consistency while the proposed token-level contrastive loss preserves diverse molecular features across textual queries. MV-CLAM enhances molecular reasoning, improving retrieval and captioning accuracy. The source code of MV-CLAM is available in https://github.com/sumin124/mv-clam.