Sejoon Kim
2026
REZE: Representation Regularization for Domain-adaptive Text Embedding Pre-finetuning
Seungmin Lee | Jeonghwan Lee | Hyunkuk Lim | Sejoon Kim | Mingi Sung
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Seungmin Lee | Jeonghwan Lee | Hyunkuk Lim | Sejoon Kim | Mingi Sung
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent text embedding models are often adapted to specialized domains via contrastive pre-finetuning (PFT) on a naive collection of scattered, heterogeneous tasks. However, this approach often introduces task-induced bias alongside domain knowledge, leading to uncontrolled representation shifts that distort the pretrained embedding geometry and cause substantial performance degradation.To address this issue, we propose REZE, a representation regularization framework that explicitly controls representation shift during embedding pre-finetuning. REZE operates on the relations of anchor-positive pairs and decomposes them in an eigenspace. It then measures task-wise dispersion along each eigencomponent to identify task-variant directions and applies adaptive soft-shrinkage to suppress task-induced noise while preserving task-invariant semantic structure, without inference-time overhead. Experiments across multiple embedding backbones and specialized benchmarks show that REZE outperforms standard pre-finetuning and isotropy-oriented post-hoc regularization in most settings, remaining stable where existing PFT variants collapse. Embedding space analyses further confirm that REZE induces controlled shifts aligned with the original embedding manifold, underscoring representation shift control as a key principle for robust embedding pre-finetuning under heterogeneous supervision.
2024
Efficient Terminology Integration for LLM-based Translation in Specialized Domains
Sejoon Kim | Mingi Sung | Jeonghwan Lee | Hyunkuk Lim | Jorge Gimenez Perez
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation
Sejoon Kim | Mingi Sung | Jeonghwan Lee | Hyunkuk Lim | Jorge Gimenez Perez
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation
Traditional machine translation methods typically involve training models directly on large parallel corpora, with limited emphasis on specialized terminology. However, In specialized fields such as patents, finance, biomedical domains, terminology is crucial for translation, with many terminologies that should not be translated based on semantics of the sentence but should be translated following agreed-upon conventions. In this paper we introduce a methodology that efficiently trains models with a smaller amount of data while preserving the accuracy of terminology translation. The terminology extraction model generates a glossary from existing training datasets and further refines the LLM by instructing it to effectively incorporate these terms into translations. We achieve this through a systematic process of term extraction and glossary creation using the Trie Tree algorithm, followed by data reconstruction to teach the LLM how to integrate these specialized terms. This methodology enhances the model’s ability to handle specialized terminology and ensures high-quality translations, particularly in fields where term consistency is crucial. Our approach has demonstrated exceptional performance, achieving the highest translation score among participants in the WMT patent task to date, showcasing its effectiveness and broad applicability in specialized translation domains where general methods often fall short.
Context-Aware LLM Translation System Using Conversation Summarization and Dialogue History
Mingi Sung | Seungmin Lee | Jiwon Kim | Sejoon Kim
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation
Mingi Sung | Seungmin Lee | Jiwon Kim | Sejoon Kim
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation
Translating conversational text, particularly in customer support contexts, presents unique challenges due to its informal and unstructured nature. We propose a context-aware LLM translation system that leverages conversation summarization and dialogue history to enhance translation quality for the English-Korean language pair. Our approach incorporates the two most recent dialogues as raw data and a summary of earlier conversations to manage context length effectively. We demonstrate that this method significantly improves translation accuracy, maintaining coherence and consistency across conversations. This system offers a practical solution for customer support translation tasks, addressing the complexities of conversational text.