Sunghoon Hong

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Hi, I’m Sunghoon Hong, an Applied Research Scientist at LG AI Research.

I specialize in Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). My research focuses on Physical AI, developing advanced AI models to solve complex optimization and control problems in real-world industrial environments, such as manufacturing plant and robotics.


career

Research Scientist — LG AI Research

Seoul, Korea • 2022 – Present

  • Conducting research on physical AI
  • Developed reinforcement learning methods for petrochemical plant scheduling optimization (recognized with the 2025 LG Award)
  • Designed combinatorial optimization approaches for circuit design

news

Jan 01, 2026 Paper accepted at ICML 2026 — Designing Observation and Action Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
Aug 16, 2025 Presented at IJCAI 2025 in Montreal, Canada
Apr 09, 2025 Received the 2025 LG Awards for petrochemical plant scheduling optimization

latest posts

selected publications

  1. ICML
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    Designing Observation and Action Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
    Deunsol Yoon, Sunghoon Hong, Whiyoung Jung, Junseok Park, and 5 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  2. AAAI Demo
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    RAPID: A Rapid Prototyping Platform for Industrial Automation
    Sunghoon Hong, Junseok Park, Deunsol Yoon, Woohyung Lim, and 2 more authors
    In AAAI 2026 Demonstration Program, 2026
  3. AAAI Demo
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    RL-Studio: A System for Multi-Phase Reinforcement Learning Experimentation
    Whiyoung Jung, Sunghoon Hong, Deunsol Yoon, Kim Jeonghye, and 8 more authors
    In AAAI 2026 Demonstration Program, 2026
  4. ICLR
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    Structure-Aware Transformer Policy for Inhomogeneous Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning
    Sunghoon Hong, Deunsol Yoon, and Kee-Eung Kim
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022
  5. ICLR
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    Winning the L2RPN Challenge: Power Grid Management via Semi-Markov Afterstate Actor-Critic
    Deunsol Yoon*, Sunghoon Hong*, Byung-Jun Lee, and Kee-Eung Kim
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021
    Spotlight (5%)
  6. IJCAI Workshop
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    Enhancing Naphtha Cracking Center Scheduling via Population-Based Multi-Scenario Planning
    Deunsol Yoon*, Sunghoon Hong*, Whiyoung Jung*, Kanghoon Lee, and 1 more author
    In IJCAI 2025 Workshop: Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen), 2025
  7. ICML
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    Agent-Centric Actor-Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Whiyoung Jung*, Sunghoon Hong*, Deunsol Yoon*, Kanghoon Lee, and 1 more author
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  8. ICML
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    Penalizing Infeasible Actions and Reward Scaling in Reinforcement Learning with Offline Data
    Jeonghye Kim, Yongjae Shin, Whiyoung Jung, Sunghoon Hong, and 4 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
    Spotlight (2.6%)
  9. ICML
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    Online Pre-Training for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning
    Yongjae Shin, Jeonghye Kim, Whiyoung Jung, Sunghoon Hong, and 7 more authors
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
  10. AAMAS Workshop
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    Agent-Oriented Centralized Critic for Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Sunghoon Hong*, Whiyoung Jung*, Deunsol Yoon*, Kanghoon Lee, and 1 more author
    In AAMAS 2024 Workshop: Adaptive Learning and Agents (ALA), 2024
  11. AAMAS
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    Naphtha Cracking Center Scheduling Optimization using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Sunghoon Hong, Deunsol Yoon, Whiyoung Jung, Jinsang Lee, and 8 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2024
  12. ICML Workshop
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    Hierarchical Decomposition Framework for Feasibility-hard Combinatorial Optimization
    Hanbum Ko, Minu Kim, Han-Seul Jeong, Sunghoon Hong, and 4 more authors
    In ICML 2023 Workshop: Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Space (SODS), 2023
  13. NeurIPS Workshop
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    ReSPack: A Large-Scale Rectilinear Steiner Tree Packing Data Generator and Benchmark
    Kanghoon Lee, Youngjoon Park, Han-Seul Jeong, Sunghoon Hong, and 3 more authors
    In NeurIPS 2022 Workshop: SyntheticData4ML, 2022