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

• Enhancing Time Awareness in Generative Recommendation
  Sunkyung Lee, Seongmin Park, Jonghyo Kim, Mincheol Yoon, Jongwuk Lee
  The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP Findings)
  Suzhou, China, November 5-9, 2025

• MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation [paper] [code]
  Ilwoong Baek*, Mincheol Yoon*, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  The 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
  Seoul, Republic of Korea, November 10-14, 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 27%, 443/1627)

• 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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