Jiwoo Kim

ECE Ph.D. student · Duke University

I am an ECE Ph.D. student at Duke University, advised by Prof. Miroslav Pajic, and obtained my B.S. in EEE from Yonsei University under Prof. Jongeun Choi. My research builds generative models for physical AI, focusing on weight-space representations for robot policies and vision-language-action models for autonomous driving.

Jiwoo Kim

News

Apr 2026 NNiT accepted to ICML 2026.
Apr 2024 Started ECE Ph.D. at Duke.
Apr 2024 Diffusion-EDFs selected as a Highlight (top 11.9%) at CVPR 2024.
Jul 2023 Best Paper Award, RSS 2023 Workshop on Symmetries in Robot Learning.

Selected Publications

(* indicates equal contribution)

  1. NNiT
    NNiT: Width-Agnostic Neural Network Generation with Structurally Aligned Weight Spaces
    Jiwoo Kim, Swarajh Mehta, Hao-Lun Hsu, Hyunwoo Ryu, Yudong Liu, Miroslav Pajic
    ICML, 2026

    We introduce NNiT, which generates MLP weights in a width-agnostic manner by tokenizing weight matrices into patches and modeling them as structured fields. NNiT generalizes to architecture topologies unseen during training.

  2. Diffusion-EDFs Diffusion-EDFs animation
    Hyunwoo Ryu, Jiwoo Kim, Junwoo Chang, Hyun Seok Ahn, Taehan Kim, Yubin Kim, Joohwan Seo, Jongeun Choi, Roberto Horowitz
    CVPR, 2024 Highlight · top 11.9%

    We introduce SE(3)-equivariant diffusion generative modeling for visual robotic manipulation, achieving sample-efficient policy learning that generalizes across object poses and viewpoints.

  3. Denoising Heat
    Junwoo Chang*, Hyunwoo Ryu*, Jiwoo Kim, Soochul Yoo, Joohwan Seo, Nikhil Prakash, Jongeun Choi, Roberto Horowitz
    NeurIPS Workshop on Diffusion Models, 2023

    At inference time, we simultaneously generate only reachable goals and plan obstacle-free motions from a single visual input.

  4. EDF
    Jiwoo Kim*, Hyunwoo Ryu*, Jongeun Choi, Joohwan Seo, Nikhil Prakash, Ruolin Li, Roberto Horowitz
    RSS Workshop on Symmetries in Robot Learning, 2023 Oral · Best Paper

    We introduce Equivariant Descriptor Fields (EDFs) and analyze four key properties: generative modeling, bi-equivariance, steerable representations, and locality.

Projects

  1. Franka demo Franka demo animation
    Diffusion-EDF Real-World Experiment with Franka Panda
    5th Yonsei Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Academic Conference, 2023 Best Demo

    Real-robot deployment of Diffusion-EDFs on a 7-DoF Franka Panda for visual manipulation.