Been Kim

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Joined

May 2017

Names

Been Kim

Emails

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Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Google DeepMind (google.com)

Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Julie Shah

2012 – 2015

Expertise

Interpretability

2012 – 2020

Explainability

2012 – 2020

Publications

Interpreting and Controlling Model Behavior via Constitutions for Atomic Concept Edits
Neha Kalibhat, Zi Wang, Prasoon Bajpai, Drew Proud, Wenjun Zeng, Been Kim, Mani Malek
- AISTATS 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
John Hewitt, Oyvind Tafjord, Robert Geirhos, Been Kim
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
Thaddäus Wiedemer, Yuxuan Li, Paul Vicol, Shixiang Shane Gu, Nick Matarese, Kevin Swersky, Been Kim, Priyank Jaini, Robert Geirhos
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Investigating the Link Between Representational Similarity and Model Interactions
Yujin Potter, Seun Eisape, Shiyang Lai, Alexander Huth, James Evans, Been Kim, Jacob Eisenstein, Dawn Song, Alane Suhr
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Escaping Plato’s Cave: JAM for Aligning Independently Trained Vision and Language Models
Hyoseo Yoon, Been Kim, Yisong Yue
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Escaping Plato’s Cave: JAM for Aligning Independently Trained Vision and Language Models
Hyoseo Yoon, Been Kim, Yisong Yue
- UniReps2025
- Readers: Everyone
Getting aligned on representational alignment
Ilia Sucholutsky, Lukas Muttenthaler, Adrian Weller, Andi Peng, Andreea Bobu, Been Kim, Bradley C. Love, Christopher J Cueva, Erin Grant, Iris Groen, Jascha Achterberg, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Katherine M. Collins, Katherine Hermann, Kerem Oktar, Klaus Greff, Martin N Hebart, Nathan Cloos, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Nori Jacoby et al. (13 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
QuestBench: Can LLMs ask the right question to acquire information in reasoning tasks?
Belinda Z. Li, Been Kim, Zi Wang
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Position: We Can’t Understand AI Using our Existing Vocabulary
John Hewitt, Robert Geirhos, Been Kim
- ICML 2025 Position Paper Track spotlightposter
- Readers: Everyone
Proactive Agents for Multi-Turn Text-to-Image Generation Under Uncertainty
Meera Hahn, Wenjun Zeng, Nithish Kannen, Rich Galt, Kartikeya Badola, Been Kim, Zi Wang
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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