Kyunghyun Min
Author directory2026
Negation Without Confusion: Decomposing Bias and Recomposing Style in Text Embeddings for Negation-Aware Image Generation
Sooyeon Park | Hemraj Singh | Kyunghyun Min | Youngjae Yu | Sung-Bae Cho
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Sooyeon Park | Hemraj Singh | Kyunghyun Min | Youngjae Yu | Sung-Bae Cho
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Negation-aware image generation remains challenging for text-to-image diffusion models, which often struggle with negation due to implicit linguistic biases that are deeply entangled within text representations. As a result, bias-aligned semantics frequently dominate over intended negative constraints. To overcome this limitation, we propose a simple training-free method of Decompose and RecOmpose text embedding (DeRO), which constructs a semantic-preserving subspace and a bias subspace using auxiliary prompts and performs semantic disentanglement based on bidirectional SVD. By decomposing entangled representations and selectively recomposing disentangled semantic components, DeRO realigns text representations toward intended negation semantics while restoring residual stylistic features to preserve semantic fidelity and image quality. As a model-agnostic inference-time framework operating solely on text representations, DeRO can be seamlessly applied to diverse diffusion architectures, including both U-Net and DiT based models. Extensive experiments on both object- and concept-level negation demonstrate consistent improvements in negation-aware image generation, achieving stronger text-image alignment, better semantic fidelity, and higher human preference scores.
2024
Cross-Lingual Unlearning of Selective Knowledge in Multilingual Language Models
Minseok Choi | Kyunghyun Min | Jaegul Choo
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
Minseok Choi | Kyunghyun Min | Jaegul Choo
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
Pretrained language models memorize vast amounts of information, including private and copyrighted data, raising significant safety concerns. Retraining these models after excluding sensitive data is prohibitively expensive, making machine unlearning a viable, cost-effective alternative. Previous research has focused on machine unlearning for monolingual models, but we find that unlearning in one language does not necessarily transfer to others. This vulnerability makes models susceptible to low-resource language attacks, where sensitive information remains accessible in less dominant languages. This paper presents a pioneering approach to machine unlearning for multilingual language models, selectively erasing information across different languages while maintaining overall performance. Specifically, our method employs an adaptive unlearning scheme that assigns language-dependent weights to address different language performances of multilingual language models. Empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework compared to existing unlearning baselines, setting a new standard for secure and adaptable multilingual language models.