Byungkun Lee

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Hello! I am a Ph.D student at KAIST AI, advised by Jaegul Choo.

I am interested in reinforcement learning and robotics. My current research is focused on utilizing pre-trained foundational models for visuo-motor control.

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Publications

preprint2026pointmapvla

See like a Robot: Robot-Centric Pointmaps for Vision-Language-Action Models
Byungkun Lee*, Dongyoon Hwang*, Minho Park, Hojoon Lee, Dongjin Kim, Jaegul Choo. (* Equal contribution)
Preprint.

A VLA observes the scene in the camera frame but acts in the robot frame. Robot-centric pointmaps close this gap by giving every pixel its 3D position in the frame where actions are defined.

iros2026hamster

3D HAMSTER: Hierarchical VLAs through 3D Trajectory Guidance
Dongyoon Hwang*, Byungkun Lee*, Dongjin Kim, Hyojin Jang, Hoiyeong Jin, Jueun Mun, Minho Park, Hojoon Lee, Hyunseung Kim, Jaegul Choo. (* Equal contribution)
IROS'26.
project page / arXiv

A hierarchical VLA framework that guides low-level action policies with 3D trajectory predictions.

rlc2026vsimba

V-Simba: Unleashing the Architectural Potential of RL in Visual Continuous Control
Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Hojoon Lee, Johan Obando-Ceron, Byungkun Lee, Aaron Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Jaegul Choo, Clare Lyle.
RLC'26.

A simple yet effective neural network architecture for deep RL in visual continuous control, matching or outperforming state-of-the-art methods across DMC, Adroit, and Meta-World while being more computationally efficient than DrQ-v2.

neurips2024dodont

Do’s and Don’ts: Learning Desirable Skills with Instruction Videos
Hyunseung Kim, Byungkun Lee, Hojoon Lee, Dongyoon Hwang, Donghu Kim, Jaegul Choo.
NeurIPS'24.
project page / arXiv / Bibtex

A skill discovery algorithm that learns diverse behaviors while following the behaviors in "do" videos while avoiding the behaviors in "don't" videos.

icml2024coin

Adapting Pretrained ViTs with Convolution Injector for Visuo-Motor Control
Donyoon Hwang*, Byungkun Lee*, Hojoon Lee, Hyunseung Kim, Jaegul Choo. (* Equal contribution)
ICML'24.

project page / arXiv / code / Bibtex

A simple add-on module which injects convolutions into pretrained ViTs for Visuo-motor Control.

neurips2023disco-dance

DISCO-DANCE: Learning to Discover Skills through Guidance
Hyunseung Kim*, Byungkun Lee*, Hojoon Lee, Dongyoon Hwang, Jaegul Choo. (* Equal contribution)
NeurIPS'23.
project page / arXiv / code / Bibtex

An unsupervised skill discovery algorithm, which addresses the limited exploration of previous algorithms through explicit guidance.

icml2023simtpr

SimTPR: On the Importance of Feature Decorrelation for Unsupervised Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning
Hojoon Lee, Koanho Lee, Dongyoon Hwang, Hyunho Lee, Byungkun Lee, Jaegul Choo.
ICML'23.
arXiv / code / poster / Bibtex

We present a visual pre-training algorithm grounded in self-predictive learning principles tailored for reinforcement learning.

cikm2023strap

ST-RAP: A Spatio-Temporal Framework for Real Estate Appraisal
Hojoon Lee*, Hawon Jung*, Byungkun Lee*, Jaegul Choo. (* Equal contribution)
CIKM'23 (short).
arXiv / code / poster / Bibtex

We construct a real estate appraisal framework that integrates spatial and temporal aspects, validated using a dataset of 3.6M real estate transactions in South Korea from 2016 to 2020.

www2022draftrec

DraftRec: Personalized Draft Recommendation for Winning in MOBA Games
Hojoon Lee*, Dongyoon Hwang*, Hyunseung Kim, Byungkun Lee, Jaegul Choo.
WWW'22.
arXiv / code / poster / Bibtex

We gathered data from 280,000 matches played by the top 0.3% rank players in Korea for League of Legends. From this, we developed DraftRec, a personalized champion recommendation system aimed at maximizing players' win rates.

Work Experience

Neuromeka Mar 2025 - Sep 2025
AI Research Intern Seoul, Korea

Other activities

Awards
  • Travel Award ($3,000 as awards), Crevisse Partners, 2023.
  • Silver Prize ($2,000 as awards), Korea University Graduation Project, 2019.
  • National Science & Engineering Scholarship ($4,000 as awards), Korea Student Aid Foundation, 2018.
  • 1st Prize in Samsung Electronics Service Design Project, Samsung Electronics, 2014

Talks

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