--- title: "Minki Kang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Minki Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Minki Kang # Minki Kang Minki Kang has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Sung Ju Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sung-ju-hwang/), [Jinheon Baek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinheon-baek/), [Seanie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seanie-lee/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5018777306) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5018777306) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018777306) · [163 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018777306&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 76 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6648](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6648) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Minki+Kang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Minki+Kang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Minki+Kang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Minki+Kang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology** Daejeon · South Korea 2018–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/korea-advanced-institute-of-science-and-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/year/2025/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Knowledge-Augmented Reasoning Distillation for Small Language Models in Knowledge-Intensive Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kang-2023-knowledge-augmented-reasoning-distillation-small/)** *(2023 · 71 citations)* Small language models are cheaper to run than API-only LLMs and better for privacy. However, they perform poorly when answers depend on large amounts of factual or domain knowledge, because their few parameters cannot store it all. Standard reasoning distillation trains a small model to reproduce rationales written… 2. **[Knowledge Graph-Augmented Language Models for Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kang-2023-knowledge-graph-augmented-language-models/)** *(2023 · 31 citations)* Pre-trained language models write fluent dialogue replies but often state wrong facts. Earlier KG-grounded systems feed the model every triplet linked to entities in the conversation, although most are irrelevant to the current turn. This wastes computation and invites errors. The authors present SURGE (SUbgraph… 3. **[Distilling LLM Agent into Small Models with Retrieval and Code Tools](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kang-2025-distilling-llm-agent-small-models/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Small language models (sLMs) trained to imitate a large teacher's chain-of-thought (CoT) traces often fail on questions that need rare facts or exact arithmetic. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sung Ju Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sung-ju-hwang/) ×3 - [Jinheon Baek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinheon-baek/) ×2 - [Seanie Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seanie-lee/) ×2 - [Kenji Kawaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenji-kawaguchi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 76 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minki-kang/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026