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 reason over structure, make decisions, and improve through interaction. 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 🇺🇸

Research

I study how language models and AI agents can acquire stronger reasoning and decision-making abilities through post-training and interaction, with reinforcement learning as a central methodology. My research focuses on training models to reason over complex decision spaces, building scalable environments and data for learning, and incorporating structural constraints into generation and decision-making.

  • Agent Reasoning & Post-Training: Developing reinforcement learning, verifier-guided training, and structured supervision methods for improving reasoning and sequential decision-making. I am particularly interested in understanding which reasoning abilities are trainable and transferable across tasks.[P2, P4, C1]
  • Data, Environment & Curriculum Scaling: Building executable environments, benchmarks, and data pipelines for scalable training, evaluation, and curriculum learning. I study how environments and data distributions can be designed to measure and improve model capabilities.[P3, P4, P5]
  • Structured & Constrained Generation: Developing generative and learning methods that incorporate discrete structure, hard constraints, and domain knowledge, with applications to reliable reasoning, planning, and constrained generation.[P6]

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, constrained diffusion policies, and data and environment scaling.

Selected Publications

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

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

  • [P6] Conditional Feasibility Steering in Diffusion Models
    Seohui Bae, Han-Seul Jeong, Won-Seok Choi, Hyungseok Song, Junseok Park, Youngjoon Park, Soonyoung Lee
    under review
  • [P5] RePlanBench: Benchmarking Reuse, Repair, or Replan When the World Changes
    Seohui Bae, Hyungseok Song, Han-Seul Jeong, Won-Seok Choi, Junseok Park, Youngjoon Park†, Soonyoung Lee†
    under review
  • [P4] CADET: Construction of PCB Routing Instances with Executable Demonstrations
    Hyungseok Song, Won-Seok Choi, Seohui Bae, Han-Seul Jeong, Junseok Park, Youngjoon Park, Soonyoung Lee
    under review
  • [P3] PCBWorld: A Benchmark Environment for Engine-Grounded PCB Design Automation [pdf] [code]
    Hyungseok Song*, Junseok Park*, Won-Seok Choi*, Seohui Bae, Han-Seul Jeong, Youngjoon Park†, Soonyoung Lee†
    KDD Workshop on Evaluation and Trustworthiness of Agentic AI, 2026
  • [P2] Align as Act: Innovations-Based Reward Decomposition for LLM Agents [pdf]
    Sojeong Rhee*, Seohui Bae*, Jongeui Park, Whiyoung Jung, Soonyoung Lee, Woohyung Lim, Youngchul Sung
    COLM Workshop on Agent Behavior, 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

Projects

EXAONE Lab - Current

  • Foundation Models: Large-scale foundation model training and evaluation, with a focus on agent capabilities.

Data Intelligence Lab

  • CAD Agents: LLM post-training, agent evaluation, and executable environment development for electronic design, including PCB routing.
  • Industrial RL: Reinforcement learning for sequential decision-making and optimization in manufacturing systems.
  • Forecasting: Demand forecasting and foundation-model-based forecasting, including EXAONE-Futurecast.

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

Journal Reviewer

  • ACM Computing Surveys

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