Mincheol Yoon (윤민철)

Biography

I am a graduate student (M.S.) at Department of Articifical Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. I received my B.S. degree in Software and Statistics at SKKU, Korea, in 2023.

Favorite quote

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller 

Publications

• Why is Normalization Necessary for Linear Recommenders? [paper] [code]
  Seongmin Park, Mincheol Yoon, Hye-young Kim, Jongwuk Lee
  The 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
  Padua, Italy, July 13-17, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 21.5%, 238/1105)

• Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation [link] [code]
  Seongmin Park*, Mincheol Yoon*, Minjin Choi, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
  Hannover, Germany, March 10-14, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 17.3%, 106/614, Oral Presentation (Top 6.5%))

• Toward a Better Understanding of Loss Functions for Collaborative Filtering [link] [code]
  Seongmin Park, Mincheol Yoon, Jae-woong Lee, Hogun Park, Jongwuk Lee
  The 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
  Birmingham, UK, October 21-25, 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 24.0%, 354/1472)

• uCTRL: Unbiased Contrastive Representation Learning via Alignment and Uniformity for Collaborative Filtering [link] [code]
  Jae-woong Lee, Seongmin Park, Mincheol Yoon, Jongwuk Lee
  The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR, short paper)
  Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 25.12%, 154/613)

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