I'm an AI researcher and engineer.

AGI will need a body. I work on physical AI at Stateloop, turning data from simulated worlds into physical AI models such as VLAs, VLMs, and WAMs.

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My ArcadeDB in Python paper is in the SciPy Proceedings
October 29, 2026 Taewoon Kim

My ArcadeDB in Python paper is in the SciPy Proceedings

One embedded database for documents, a graph and vectors

My paper, ArcadeDB in Python: An In Process Multi Model Database , was accepted at SciPy 2026 and is now in the . I wrote it alone. The on humem.ai has the method and the benchmark...

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My Co-Learning paper was accepted at RO-MAN 2026
June 19, 2026 Taewoon Kim

My Co-Learning paper was accepted at RO-MAN 2026

Why I want a robot to remember how a team worked before

Our paper, Improving Human Robot Teamwork in Urban Search and Rescue Through Episodic Memory of Prior Collaboration , was accepted at . I worked on this together with Emma van Zoel...

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My KG Memory Transfer paper was accepted at RLC 2026
May 22, 2026 Taewoon Kim

My KG Memory Transfer paper was accepted at RLC 2026

Why I care about learning which symbolic facts should persist

Our paper, Short Term to Long Term Memory Transfer for Knowledge Graphs under Partial Observability , was accepted at . I wrote a structured overview on the , and the paper itself...

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Building embedded Python bindings for ArcadeDB
January 28, 2026 Taewoon Kim

Building embedded Python bindings for ArcadeDB

Why I wanted a lightweight, local-first way to use ArcadeDB from Python

Update, October 2026: the bindings now live in the ArcadeData organization and the package is named . The code and links below are updated to match; the describes the current packa...

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From REINFORCE to PPO: The Complete On-Policy RL Journey
August 7, 2025 Taewoon Kim

From REINFORCE to PPO: The Complete On-Policy RL Journey

Understanding the evolution from basic policy gradients to modern LLM fine-tuning algorithms

Motivation: Why On Policy RL Matters for Modern AI If you've been following the latest developments in large language models (LLMs), you've probably heard of GRPO (Group Relative P...

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From VAEs to Diffusion Models: A Step-by-Step Journey
May 28, 2025 Taewoon Kim

From VAEs to Diffusion Models: A Step-by-Step Journey

Understanding the evolution of generative models through practical implementations

Motivation: Why Do We Need Generative Models? In order to generate data, we need to sample from a distribution. But here, we are not talking about simply sampling from the training...

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Understanding Maximum Likelihood Estimation
February 5, 2025 Taewoon Kim

Understanding Maximum Likelihood Estimation

A Deep Dive into MLE, Loss Functions, and Beyond

Most of us, whether consciously or not, use Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) in our daily machine learning workflows. When you’re training a model to predict labels in a supervi...

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Sequential Decision-Making with Transformers
December 15, 2024 Taewoon Kim

Sequential Decision-Making with Transformers

Offline RL, Behavior Cloning, and The Magic of Sequence Modeling

Sequential decision making is a fundamental challenge in machine learning and AI. From planning your next vacation itinerary to training a robot to navigate a warehouse, we often f...

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The Problems with p-values
October 16, 2024 Taewoon Kim

The Problems with p-values

Why Frequentist Significance Testing Falls Short

Statistical significance testing, specifically the use of p values, has been the cornerstone of hypothesis testing for decades. However, this frequentist approach has critical flaw...

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Training a GCN-based edge classifier
August 21, 2024 Taewoon Kim

Training a GCN-based edge classifier

Exploring the challenges and strategies for effective edge classification with graph neural networks (GNNs)

In this post, I'll walk you through the process of training a Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) for edge classification, a common task in graph based machine learning applications....

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A machine with human-like memory systems
December 21, 2023 Taewoon Kim

A machine with human-like memory systems

Can machines think like us?

The project is the core of my PhD work. It was heavily inspired by the cognitive science theories, such as the ones from . It's about developing agents equipped with human like ext...

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Using ChatGPT is just so great
December 14, 2023 Taewoon Kim

Using ChatGPT is just so great

This really can do a lot of things, although it's still biased.

Generating images with text I've been using it massively for everything lately. It's also integrated into VS Code, which really helps me to write code faster. Below is an example o...

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My new website
December 12, 2023 Taewoon Kim

My new website

My boring old website had to be gone.

I thought that I can make a better website than the one I had. So I made this one! I'll be posting my projects and other stuff here. I hope you like it! :) I was surprised that I c...

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Room classifier
February 28, 2022 Taewoon Kim

Room classifier

A simple room classifier made using EfficientNet and PyTorch Lightning

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