VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Namkyeong Cho
dblp:278/1006
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4ranked-venue papers
2as first author
4since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0002-8232-437XORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 4 · 2 first-author · 4 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Graph learning · 75% Reinforcement learning · 25% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational science and engineering · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
2 papers |
Mathematical optimization · 72% Computational geometry · 28% |
Topics — the 9 heaviest of 9, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning › dynamic programming
policy iteration |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Physics-Informed Approach for Exploratory Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations via Policy Iterations · AAAI 2026 |
Computational science and engineering › scientific machine learning › physics-informed machine learning
physics-informed neural networks |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Physics-Informed Approach for Exploratory Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations via Policy Iterations · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph neural network |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Line Graph Vietoris-Rips Persistence Diagram for Topological Graph Representation Learning · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
graph representation learning |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Line Graph Vietoris-Rips Persistence Diagram for Topological Graph Representation Learning · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024 |
Machine learning › Graph learning
line graph |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Line Graph Vietoris-Rips Persistence Diagram for Topological Graph Representation Learning · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024 |
Machine learning › Graph learning › topological data analysis
persistence diagram |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Line Graph Vietoris-Rips Persistence Diagram for Topological Graph Representation Learning · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024 |
Mathematical optimization › control theory › optimal control
hamilton-jacobi-bellman equation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Physics-Informed Approach for Exploratory Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations via Policy Iterations · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization › control theory › optimal control
stochastic control |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Physics-Informed Approach for Exploratory Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations via Policy Iterations · AAAI 2026 |
Computational geometry
topological data analysis |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Line Graph Vietoris-Rips Persistence Diagram for Topological Graph Representation Learning · J. Mach. Learn. Res. 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
physics-informed neural networks · 3.0mesh-free policy iteration · 3.0automatic differentiation · 3.0weisfeiler-lehman coloring · 1.5message passing · 1.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Physics-Informed Approach for Exploratory Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations via Policy IterationsabstractWe propose a mesh-free policy iteration framework based on physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) for solving entropy-regularized stochastic control problems. The method iteratively alternates between soft policy evaluation and improvement using automatic differentiation and neural approximation, without relying on spatial discretization. We present a detailed error analysis that decomposes the total approximation error into three sources: iteration error, policy network error, and PDE residual error. The proposed algorithm is validated with a range of challenging control tasks, including high-dimensional linear-quadratic regulation in 5D and 10D, as well as nonlinear systems such as pendulum and cartpole problems. Numerical results confirm the scalability, accuracy, and robustness of our approach across both linear and nonlinear benchmarks. Yeongjong Kim, Namkyeong Cho, Yeoneung Kim |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2026 | Neural advection-diffusion equation for long-term climate dynamics
Namkyeong Cho, Sung Woong Cho, Youngjoon Hong, Hyung Ju Hwang, Jae Yong Lee 0002, Hwijae Son |
Neurocomputing | 1 |
| 2025 | Universal embedding for pre-trained models and data bench
Namkyeong Cho, Taewon Cho, Jaesun Shin, Eunjoo Jeon |
Neurocomputing | 1 |
| 2024 | Line Graph Vietoris-Rips Persistence Diagram for Topological Graph Representation LearningabstractWhile message passing graph neural networks result in informative node embeddings, they may suffer from describing the topological properties of graphs. To this end, node filtration has been widely used as an attempt to obtain the topological information of a graph using persistence diagrams. However, these attempts have faced the problem of losing node embedding information, which in turn prevents them from providing a more expressive graph representation. To tackle this issue, we shift our focus to edge filtration and introduce a novel edge filtration-based persistence diagram, named Topological Edge Diagram (TED), which is mathematically proven to preserve node embedding information as well as contain additional topological information. To implement TED, we propose a neural network based algorithm, named Line Graph Vietoris-Rips (LGVR) Persistence Diagram, that extracts edge information by transforming a graph into its line graph. Through LGVR, we propose two model frameworks that can be applied to any message passing GNNs, and prove that they are strictly more powerful than Weisfeiler-Lehman type colorings. Finally we empirically validate superior performance of our models on several graph classification and regression benchmarks. Jaesun Shin, Eunjoo Jeon, Taewon Cho, Namkyeong Cho, Youngjune Gwon |
J. Mach. Learn. Res. | 4 |