Jaehoon Hahm

Physics Ph.D. Candidate, UIUC

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I’m a second-year Physics Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, advised by Bryan Clark.
Previously, I completed my M.S. at the Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University, advised by Joonseok Lee.
Before that, I completed my B.S. at Physics, Seoul National University.

I’m interested in ML + Quantum, particularly using techniques in Geometric Deep Learning, and Generative Modeling.
I like to work in broad areas in the intersection of Physics, Differential Geometry, and ML.
I'm currently working on:

  1. Optimal transport for local geometry preserving Diffusion/Flow/Markov matching
  2. Discrete Flow Matching for physical/biological data
  3. Control theoretic approaches for Energy-based models
  4. Neural Quantum States + Subspace Diagonalization/Mixture of Experts

Feel free to contact me via email for any exciting collaboration!

Preprints

Sunghyun Kim*, Jaehoon Hahm*, Jeongwoo Shin, Joonseok Lee
Preprint, 2025
Geometry-aware generative models and novel view synthesis approaches have shown strong potential to improve visual fidelity and consistency. Our Residual Latent Flow is a flow matching-based framework that corrects the misaligned latents to improve equivariance relation upon specifc group actions.
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Jaehoon Hahm, Bryan Clark
Preprint, 2025
We introduce Shadow Flow Matching, a novel generative framework for quantum state learning that combines classical shadow representations with Riemannian flow matching.
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Publications

Kwanseok Kim*, Jaehoon Hahm*, Sumin Kim, Jinhwan Sul, Byung-Hak Kim, Joonseok Lee
ICCV (20th IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision) 2025, Highlight (263/11,239 = 2.3%)
We approach a video summarization problem using generative modeling framework, motivated from the diverse and subjective characteristic innate to the summarization task.
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Jaehoon Hahm*, Tak Hur*, Joonseok Lee, Daniel K. Park
QTML (8th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning) 2024
We use Functional Flow Matching to learn the distribution of quantum states via Wigner function mapping.
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Jaehoon Hahm*, Junho Lee*, Sunghyun Kim, Joonseok Lee
ICML (41st International Conference on Machine Learning) 2024
We introduce a method to leverage isometric representation learning, motivated from Riemannian geometry, to obtain a smoother and disentangled latent space for diffusion mdoels.
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