Professor Kim Lee-Sup Lab’s Master’s Graduate Park Jun-Young Wins Best Paper Award at the International Design Automation Conference
<(From left to right) Professor Kim Lee-Sup, Master’s Graduate Park Jun-Young, Ph.D. Graduate Kang Myeong-Goo, Master’s Graduate Kim Yang-Gon, Ph.D. Graduate Shin Jae-Kang, Ph.D. Candidate Han Yunki>
Master’s graduate Park Jun-Young from Professor Kim Lee-Sup’s lab of our department achieved the significant accomplishment of winning the Best Paper Award at the International Design Automation Conference (DAC) held in San Francisco, USA, from June 23 to June 27. Established in 1964, DAC is an international academic conference in its 61st year, covering semiconductor design automation, AI algorithms, and chip design. It is considered the highest authority in the related field, with only about 20 percent of submitted papers being selected for presentation.
The awarded research is based on Park Jun-Young’s master’s thesis, proposing an algorithmic approximation technique and hardware architecture to reduce memory transfer for KV caching, a problem in Large Language Model inference. The excellence of this research was recognized by the Best Paper Award selection committee and was chosen as the final Best Paper Award winner from among the four candidate papers (out of 337 presented and 1,545 submitted papers).
The details are as follows:
- Conference Name: 2024 61st IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC)
- Date: June 23-27, 2024
- Award: Best Paper Award
- Authors: Park Jun-Young, Kang Myeong-Goo, Han Yunki, Kim Yang-Gon, Shin Jae-Kang, Kim Lee-Sup (Advisor)
- Paper Title: Token-Picker: Accelerating Attention in Text Generation with Minimized Memory Transfer via Probability Estimation
