publications

llms_for_healthcare, dialogue_agents, reasoning_of_llms, disease_diagnosis, code_generation, digital_agents, personalised_agents.

The asterisk (*) indicates co-first authorship.

2025

  1. New Age-Related Scattered Hypofluorescent Spots as an Adverse Prognostic Factor for Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy​
    Seo Hee Kim*, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Seonghee Choi, Eun Jee Chung, and 4 more authors
    Ophthalmology Science 2025 (Q1)
  2. New Towards Lifelong Dialogue Agents via Timeline-based Memory Management
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Namyoung Kim*, Minju Gwak, Hyungjoo Chae, and 5 more authors
    NAACL 2025  Oral Presentation 
    [PDF]
  3. Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation
    Hyungjoo Chae, Namyoung Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Minju Gwak, and 5 more authors
    ICLR 2025
    [PDF]
  4. Evidence-guided Transfer Learning to Overcome Data limitations in Optical Coherence Tomography-based Retinal Detachment Differentiation
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Tae Keun Yoo, Jung Dong Kim, Min Kim, and 3 more authors
    under review 2025
  5. Noise Analysis of Chemical Reactions from US Patents via Large Language Models
    Chaewon Lee, Shuan Chen, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Jinyoung Yeo, and 1 more author
    under review 2025

2024

  1. Coffee-gym: An Environment for Evaluating and Improving Natural Language Feedback on Erroneous Code
    Hyungjoo Chae, Taeyoon Kwon, Seungjun Moon, Yongho Song, and 6 more authors
    EMNLP 2024
    [PDF]
  2. Language Models as Compilers: Simulating Pseudocode Execution Improves Algorithmic Reasoning in Language Models
    Hyungjoo Chae, Yeonghyeon Kim, Seungone Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, and 7 more authors
    EMNLP 2024 (Featured in AK Daily Papers)
    [PDF]
  3. Commonsense-augmented Memory Construction and Management in Long-term Conversations via Context-aware Persona Refinement
    Hana Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Seoyeon Kim, Dongha Lee, and 1 more author
    EACL 2024 (Conceptualized and wrote the paper)  Oral Presentation 
    [PDF]
  4. Multitask Deep Learning for Joint Detection of Necrotizing Viral and Noninfectious Retinitis from Common Blood and Serology Test Data
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Taeyoon Kwon*, Harok Jang, Min Kim, and 5 more authors
    Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 2024 (Q1; IF = 5.0)
    [PDF]
  5. Large Language Models Are Clinical Reasoners: Reasoning-aware Diagnosis Framework with Prompt-generated Rationales
    Taeyoon Kwon*, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong*, Dongjin Kang, Seungjun Moon, and 6 more authors
    AAAI 2024
    [PDF]
  6. Large Language Models Are Self-Taught Reasoners: Enhancing LLM Applications via Tailored Problem-Solving Demonstrations
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Taeyoon Kwon, and Jinyoung Yeo
    preprint 2024

2023

  1. Dialogue Chain-of-Thought Distillation for Commonsense-aware Conversational Agents
    Hyungjoo Chae, Yongho Song, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Taeyoon Kwon, and 5 more authors
    EMNLP 2023
    [PDF]
  2. Natural Language Processing to Predict Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Genotype in Diffuse Glioma Using MR Radiology Reports
    Minjae Kim, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Seonah Choi, Jinyoung Yeo, and 9 more authors
    European Radiology 2023 (Q1; IF = 7.03​)
    [PDF]
  3. Evidence-empowered Transfer Learning for Alzheimer’s Disease
    Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, Hana Kim, Minjin Kim, Jinseong Jang, and 5 more authors
    IEEE ISBI 2023  Oral Presentation 
    [PDF] [Video]