Seohui Bae 배서희

I'm a research scientist at LG AI Research in South Korea.

At LG AI Research, I'm working on AI systems that model the world, make decisions, and adapt under uncertainty. I completed my bachelor's and master's studies at KAIST, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Eunho Yang.

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News

  • (26.05) I will attend ICML 2026 in Seoul 🇰🇷
  • (26.02) 1 paper accepted to CVPR 2026. See you all in Denver 🇺🇸
  • (26.01) 1 paper accepted to ICASSP 2026.
  • (25.07) I will be attending ICML 2025 this July. See you in Vancouver 🇨🇦

Research

My research focuses on building AI agents that can model, decide, and adapt in complex environments. I study how agents can use executable dynamics, grounded environments, and model-based exploration to make robust decisions under uncertainty. My work spans three complementary directions:

  • Agent Decision-Making: RL and planning methods for intelligent agents in dynamic environments, with a focus on exploration and information-seeking behavior. [P2, P3, C1]
  • World Models & Agent Environments: Building grounded, scalable environments and learning predictive models of dynamics for simulation and model-based reasoning. [P3, P4]
  • Robust Learning under Distribution Shift: Learning algorithms for reliable generalization under changing distribution. [P1]

I regularly contribute to academic publications and collaborative research projects. I’m especially interested in bridging industrial challenges with generalizable solutions in: RL post-training, world models, and environment scaling.

Selected Publications

(* equal contribution; † corresponding author). For the full list, see Google Scholar.

[C#] conferences; [P#] preprints/under review

  • [P4] PCBWorld: A Benchmark Environment for Engine-Grounded PCB Design Automation [project]
    Hyungseok Song*, Junseok Park*, Won-Seok Choi*, Seohui Bae, Han-Seul Jeong, Youngjoon Park†, Soonyoung Lee†
    under review
    KDD Workshop on Evaluation and Trustworthiness of Agentic AI, 2026
  • [P3] Code-to-Explore: Verifiable Programs for OOD Exploration in LLM Agents [pdf]
    Seohui Bae, Whiyoung Jung, Youngjoon Park, Soonyoung Lee
    under review
    ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning on World Feedback, 2026
  • [P2] Align as Act: Innovations-Based Reward Decomposition for LLM Agents [pdf]
    Sojeong Rhee*, Seohui Bae*, Whiyoung Jung, Woohyung Lim, Soonyoung Lee, Youngchul Sung
    preprint, 2026
  • [C1] Align While Search: Belief-Guided Exploratory Inference for World-Grounded Embodied Agents [pdf]
    Seohui Bae, Jeonghye Kim, Youngchul Sung, Woohyung Lim
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
    ICML Workshop on Exploration in AI Today, 2025
  • [P1] Geometry-Aware Normalization for Imbalanced Time-series Forecasting [pdf]
    Seohui Bae, Junhyeok Kang, Jun Seo, Soyeon Park, Wonbin Ahn, Soonyoung Lee
    under review (journal), 2025

Projects

Current @ LG AI Research

  • RL for Foundation Model Agents
    • Post-training methods for LLM-based agents in industrial decision settings.
  • Industrial Optimization
    • RL for sequential decision-making in manufacturing.
    • Agent training and benchmark for electronic design automation.

Past @ LG AI Research

  • EXAONE-Futurecast
  • Demand Forecasting

Education

M.S. in Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, Mar 2020–Feb 2022

B.S. in Biological Science, Computer Science (minor), Mar 2015–Feb 2020

Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Mar 2012–Feb 2015

Academic Service

Conference Reviewer

  • Main: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, AISTATS
  • Workshops: AAAI, ICLR, ICML

Journal Reviewer

  • ACM Computing Surveys

Last date of update: 2026-05-16 / template