Kyu Song

Hi, I'm Kyu (Hyoung-Kyu), an AI Engineer at NVIDIA, where I work on World Foundation Models. My work focuses on generative AI for video and multimodal content, with an emphasis on making large models faster, more efficient, and more useful in real-world products. Most recently, I was a Member of Technical Staff at Mirage (formerly Captions), working on diffusion-based video generation and short-form video understanding.

Before that, I worked on efficient text-to-image models, large language models, multimodal AI, and talking-face generation at South Korean startups including Nota AI and MAUM.AI. My work is mainly product-driven and engineering-driven, but I also value academic service and active engagement with the research community. I was honored to be recognized as a CVPR 2025 Outstanding Reviewer.

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Kyu Song

Publications

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Seeing Voices: Generating A-Roll Video from Audio with Mirage
Captions Team
Technical Report, 2025

Introduces Mirage, a diffusion-based model that generates realistic talking-head video directly from audio input, enabling scalable A-roll video creation.

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BK-SDM: A Lightweight, Fast, and Cheap Version of Stable Diffusion
Bo-Kyeong Kim*, Hyoung-Kyu Song, Thibault Castells, Shinkook Choi
ECCV, 2024

Distills compact Stable Diffusion variants that achieve 30–50% faster and smaller, more cost-efficient inference without sacrificing image quality, including deployment on NVIDIA Jetson devices.

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LD-Pruner: Efficient Pruning of Latent Diffusion Models using Task-Agnostic Insights
Thibault Castells*, Hyoung-Kyu Song, Bo-Kyeong Kim, Shinkook Choi
CVPR Workshop (EDGE), 2024

Proposes a task-agnostic pruning method for latent diffusion models, achieving efficient compression without retraining on specific downstream tasks.

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EdgeFusion: On-Device Text-to-Image Generation
Thibault Castells*, Hyoung-Kyu Song, Tairen Piao, Shinkook Choi, Bo-Kyeong Kim, Hanyoung Yim, Chang-gwun Lee, Jae Gon Kim, Tae-Ho Kim†
CVPR Workshop (EDGE), 2024

Demonstrates subsecond text-to-image generation on smartphone by combining model compression techniques including knowledge distllation, step distillation, and quantization.

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Shortened LLaMA: A Simple Depth Pruning for Large Language Models
Bo-Kyeong Kim*, Geonmin Kim, Tae-Ho Kim, Thibault Castells, Shinkook Choi, Junho Shin, Hyoung-Kyu Song
ICLR Workshop (ME-FoMo), 2024

Presents a straightforward depth pruning strategy for LLMs that removes entire transformer layers, yielding smaller models with minimal performance loss.

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A Unified Compression Framework for Efficient Speech-Driven Talking-Face Generation
Bo-Kyeong Kim*, Jaemin Kang, Daeun Seo, Hancheol Park, Shinkook Choi, Hyoung-Kyu Song, Hyungshin Kim†, Sungsu Lim†
ICCV Demo, 2023

Unifies pruning, quantization, and knowledge distillation into a single framework to compress talking-face generation models for real-time inference.

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Talking Face Generation with Multilingual TTS
Hyoung-Kyu Song*, Sang Hoon Woo*, Junhyeok Lee, Seungmin Yang, Hyunjae Cho, Youseong Lee, Dongho Choi, Kang-wook Kim
CVPR Demo, 2022 (🤗 Hugging Face Prize from Gradio CVPR Event)

Combines multilingual text-to-speech with lip-synced face generation, enabling talking-face videos in multiple languages from a single text input.

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Deep User Identification Model with Multiple Biometric Data
Hyoung-Kyu Song*, Ebrahim AlAlkeem, Jaewoong Yun, Tae-Ho Kim, Hyerin Yoo, Dasom Heo, Myungsu Chae, Chan Yeob Yeun†
BMC Bioinformatics 21, 315, 2020

Proposes a deep learning model that fuses multiple biometric signals for robust user identification, outperforming single-modality baselines.