Seongmin Park (박성민)

Biography

I'm a Ph.D. student at Department of Artificial Intelligence, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. I received my B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from SKKU, Korea in 2020. 

Favorite quote

"We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one."  - Confucius

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)

• Linear Item-Item Models with Neural Knowledge for Session-based Recommendation
  Minjin Choi, Sunkyung Lee, Seongmin Park, 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)

• Empowering Retrieval-based Conversational Recommendation with Contrasting User Preferences [paper] [code]
  Heejin Kook*, Junyoung Kim*, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee (* : equal contribution)
  2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
  Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, April 29-May 4, 2025

• Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation [paper] [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 [paper] [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%, 354/1472)

• uCTRL: Unbiased Contrastive Representation Learning via Alignment and Uniformity for Collaborative Filtering [paper] [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)

• Bilateral Self-unbiased Learning from Biased Implicit Feedback [paper] [code]
  Jae-woong Lee, Seongmin Park, Joonseok Lee, Jongwuk Lee
  The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
  Madrid, Spain, July 11-15, 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 20%, 161/794)

• Dual Unbiased Recommender Learning for Implicit Feedback [paper] [code]
  Jae-woong Lee, Seongmin Park, Jongwuk Lee
  The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR, short paper)
  Online (Virtual Event), July 11-15, 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 27.6%, 145/526)

• 사고 연쇄 프롬프팅을 통한 거대 언어 모델의 영화 도메인에 대한 지식 평가 및 분석 [paper]
  나정우*, 국희진*, 박성민, 문재완, 이종욱 (* : equal contribution)
  한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집, Jun 2022

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