John Won

KAIST AI

johnwon at kaist.ac.kr

I am an MS/PhD student at the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI at KAIST, advised by Prof. Jinwoo Shin. I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from POSTECH in 2025.

My research interests lie broadly in deep learning, with a focus on vision-language-action models and world models for robotics. I am particularly interested in building intelligent systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the physical world.

selected publications

ICML

Dual-Stream Diffusion for World-Model Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model

John Won, Kyungmin Lee, Huiwon Jang, Dongyoung Kim, and Jinwoo Shin

In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{won2026dualstream,
  title = {Dual-Stream Diffusion for World-Model Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model},
  author = {Won, John and Lee, Kyungmin and Jang, Huiwon and Kim, Dongyoung and Shin, Jinwoo},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2026},
}

TMLR

CLIP Meets Diffusion: A Synergistic Approach to Anomaly Detection

Byeongchan Lee, John Won, Seunghyun Lee, and Jinwoo Shin

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{lee2025clipdiffusion,
  title = {CLIP Meets Diffusion: A Synergistic Approach to Anomaly Detection},
  author = {Lee, Byeongchan and Won, John and Lee, Seunghyun and Shin, Jinwoo},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)},
  year = {2025},
}

arXiv

RLDX-1 Technical Report

Dongyoung Kim, Huiwon Jang, Myungkyu Koo, Suhyeok Jang, Taeyoung Kim, Beomjun Kim , ..., John Won, and 61 more authors

2026

arXiv Bib

@techreport{kim2026rldx1,
  title = {RLDX-1 Technical Report},
  author = {Kim, Dongyoung and Jang, Huiwon and Koo, Myungkyu and Jang, Suhyeok and Kim, Taeyoung and Kim, Beomjun and Yoon, Byungjun and Jang, Changsung and Choi, Daewon and Han, Dongsu and Lee, Donguk and Kwon, Heeseung and Jeon, Hojin and Kang, Jaehyun and Bae, Jaekyoung and Lee, Jihyuk and Lee, Jimin and Won, John and Ahn, Joonwoo and Park, Junhyeong and Sung, Junyoung and Lee, Kyungmin and Han, Minseong and Yoon, Minsung and Joo, Sejune and Son, Seonil and Park, Seungcheol and Cho, Seunggeun and Moon, Seungjun and Kim, Seungku and Dong, Yonghoon and Cho, Yongjin and Kim, Youngchan and Kim, Chang Hwan and Kim, Dohyeon and Kim, Heecheol and Lee, Heewon and Ahn, Hensen and Ryu, Hyungkyu and Choi, Hyunsoo and Shin, Hyunsoo and Jung, Jaeheon and Kim, Jaewoo and Kim, Jinwook and Chang, Joochul and Kim, Joonsoo and Park, Junghun and Park, Jungwoo and Cho, Junho and Park, Junhyeok and Lee, Junwon and Lee, Kangwook and Kim, Kwanghoon and Choe, Kyoungwhan and Bhadu, Manoj and Oh, Nayoung and Kim, Sangjun and Kim, Sangwoo and Shim, Seunghoon and Kim, Seunghyun and Lee, Seungjun and Ka, Seungyup and Yang, Sungryol and Jung, Wook and Shukla, Yashu and Lee, Yeonjae and Bae, Yeonwoo and Shin, Jinwoo},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.03269},
  year = {2026},
}