Najoung Kim

Assistant Professor, Boston University

Joined

September 2018

Names

Najoung Kim (Preferred)

Emails

****@jhu.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@bu.edu (Confirmed)

****@jhu.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Boston University (bu.edu)

2023 – Present

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2022 – 2025

Assistant Professor

New York University (nyu.edu)

2021 – 2022

PhD student

Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)

2016 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Paul Smolensky

2016 – 2022

Expertise

Cognitive Science

Present

Computational Linguistics

Present

Publications

RExBench: Can coding agents autonomously implement AI research extensions?
Nicholas Edwards, Yukyung Lee, Yujun Audrey Mao, Yulu Qin, Sebastian Schuster, Najoung Kim
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond N-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
Arkadiy Saakyan, Najoung Kim, Smaranda Muresan, Tuhin Chakrabarty
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Vision-and-Language Training Helps Deploy Taxonomic Knowledge but Does Not Fundamentally Alter It
Yulu Qin, Dheeraj Varghese, Adam Dahlgren Lindström, Lucia Donatelli, Kanishka Misra, Najoung Kim
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Transformers Struggle to Learn to Search
Abulhair Saparov, Srushti Ajay Pawar, Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar, Nitish Joshi, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Vishakh Padmakumar, Mehran Kazemi, Najoung Kim, He He
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Thumbs Up/Down: Untangling Challenges of Fine-Grained Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation
Katherine M. Collins, Najoung Kim, Yonatan Bitton, Verena Rieser, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Yushi Hu, Sherol Chen, Senjuti Dutta, Minsuk Chang, Kimin Lee, Youwei Liang, Georgina Evans, Sahil Singla, Gang Li, Adrian Weller, Junfeng He, Deepak Ramachandran, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham
- ICML 2024 Workshop MHFAIA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Finding Structure in One Child’s Linguistic Experience
Wai Keen Vong, Wentao Wang, Najoung Kim, Brenden Lake
- Cognitive Science
- Readers: Everyone
Entity Tracking in Language Models
Najoung Kim, Sebastian Schuster
- 12 Dec 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Personas as a way to Model Truthfulness in Language Models
Nitish Joshi, Javier Rando, Abulhair Saparov, Najoung Kim, He He
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Inverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better
Ian R. McKenzie, Alexander Lyzhov, Michael Martin Pieler, Alicia Parrish, Aaron Mueller, Ameya Prabhu, Euan McLean, Xudong Shen, Joe Cavanagh, Andrew George Gritsevskiy, Derik Kauffman, Aaron T. Kirtland, Zhengping Zhou, Yuhui Zhang, Sicong Huang, Daniel Wurgaft, Max Weiss, Alexis Ross, Gabriel Recchia, Alisa Liu et al. (6 additional authors not shown)
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Inverse Scaling Can Become U-Shaped
Jason Wei, Najoung Kim, Yi Tay, Quoc V Le
- EMNLP 2023 Main
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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