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AI research: South Korea

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This page only covers the 2,859 papers with at least one laboratory traced to this country, between 27 October 2025 and 18 August 2026. It is not the entire output of the country.

This is the country of the laboratory, never the nationality of individuals. A paper co-signed from several countries counts in each of them. Coverage is partial and the gap is not random: a researcher whose institution is unknown usually publishes little, which over-represents established labs.

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Themes and topics are not invented here: every paper is mapped onto the OpenAlex classification, the open catalogue that indexes the world's scientific research (domain › field › theme › topic hierarchy). Click a theme to break it down into its main topics.

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The 60 papers from this country present in the sample of 2,000 projected papers. Two papers close on the map have close content: the clusters show which research families this country actually occupies.

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20 most recent papers

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PaperAbstractThemeTopic
SAUL: Sharpness-Aware Augmented-Lagrangian Unlearning

18 August 2026

Machine unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) faces a critical trade-off between erasing target knowledge and preserving general utility. We propose SAUL (Sharpness-Aware…AILarge Language Models
GOD: Enhancing Generalization via Deep Grafting for Sequential Recommendation

18 August 2026

Sequential recommenders often struggle with sparse and noisy histories, limiting generalization to unseen interactions. Knowledge distillation mitigates this by transferring dense…Info systemsRecommender Systems and Techniques
Machine Learning Approaches to Decoding Topological Quantum Codes

18 August 2026

Decoding is an essential component of quantum error correction (QEC), translating stabilizer measurement outcomes into corrective actions that suppress logical errors and preserve…AIQuantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
GraniKV: Asymmetric Granularity KV-Cache Paging for Multi-Agent Systems with Long Shared Prefix

18 August 2026

Production paged-serving engines apply uniform paging granularity to the KV cache, even though the two regions of a multi-agent workload have opposite storage requirements: a long…Hardware and ArchitectureParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
SchurQuant: Groupwise Discrete Optimization for Layer-Wise LLM Quantization

18 August 2026

Weight-only post-training quantization (PTQ) enables the deployment of large language models under tight memory budgets, but accuracy often collapses at 2-3 bits. Existing…VisionAdvanced Data Compression Techniques
Global Federated Learning Strategies for Building Efficient Personalized Models

18 August 2026

Federated learning (FL) is a practical framework that can train models on distributed user data while guaranteeing data privacy; however, due to heterogeneity in which each user…AIPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
NPU Offloading of a Frozen Visual Encoder for Robot Policy Training

18 August 2026

When a robot policy is trained for a new task or dataset, its visual encoder can be frozen and only its action generation module trained, reducing training cost. Freezing removes…VisionAdvanced Neural Network Applications
Domain-Agnostic Neural Topic Modeling with Contextual Token-Level Semantic Graph Representation

18 August 2026

Recent advances in neural topic models with pre-trained language models (PLMs) have achieved strong performance by leveraging general-domain pre-training, yet their topic…AILarge Language Models
AnyTalk: Speech Animation for Arbitrary Characters Leveraging a Video Generation Model

18 August 2026

We present AnyTalk, a novel method for generating 3D speech animations for arbitrary characters without requiring any animation data. While existing audio-driven 3D speech…VisionFace recognition and analysis
Depth-guided Multi-view Exposure Bracketing for HDR Robot Vision

18 August 2026

Achieving reliable single-shot high dynamic range (HDR) imaging under extreme illumination conditions remains a long-standing challenge, yet no comprehensive benchmark exist for…VisionImage Enhancement Techniques
Routing Divergence Is Not Evidence of Behavioral Influence in Same-Weight MoE Self-Distillation

18 August 2026

Two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) forward passes can share every weight yet route the same token through different experts. This creates a possible blind spot in same-weight…NeuroscienceNeural dynamics and brain function
What You Ask is What You Ground: Bridging Question Intent to Temporal Evidence for Grounded VideoQA

18 August 2026

We study a critical yet overlooked failure mode in Grounded Video Question Answering: question-invariant grounding, where models predict nearly identical temporal segments for…VisionMultimodal Machine Learning Applications
PersonaDrive: Controllable Trajectory Prediction with Multi-Dimensional Driving Personas

18 August 2026

Although recent trajectory prediction and end-to-end autonomous driving methods improve robustness in urban environments, they still lack meaningful controllability. Existing…Automotive EngineeringAutonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
Registration-Free Hyperspectral Reconstruction from RGB via a Permutation-Invariant Gram-Matrix Principle

18 August 2026

Reconstructing a spatially and spectrally high-resolution hyperspectral image (HR-HSI) from a low-resolution HSI (LR-HSI) and a high-resolution RGB image (HR-RGB) usually assumes…Media TechnologyRemote-Sensing Image Classification
CRAFT: Constrained Reward via Attention Fine-Tuning for Subject Personalization without Composed Targets

17 August 2026

Subject-driven image personalization---generating new images that preserve the identity of one or several reference subjects in novel scenes---is a foundational capability for…VisionGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Test-Time Instance Selection for Improved Whole Slide Image Analysis

17 August 2026

Whole Slide Image (WSI) analysis has been widely studied for cancer diagnosis. Conventionally, a gigapixel WSI is divided into small patches and processed by Multiple Instance…AIAI in cancer detection
Source-Agnostic Image Translation Based on Latent Aware Adaptive Masking

17 August 2026

In this work, we propose a source-agnostic framework that dynamically refines a binary mask throughout the reverse diffusion process by computing the discrepancies of a pretrained…VisionGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Scaling Creative Writing Beyond Story-Centric Data with Attribute-Guided Genre Expansion

17 August 2026

High-quality creative writing data for large language models (LLMs) remains dominated by story-centric data, limiting models' ability to follow the structural and functional…AIArtificial Intelligence in Games
An Interactive, Automated 4D-STEM data acquisition and analysis routine for Scanning Electron Nanobeam Diffraction and Ptychography experiments

17 August 2026

Modern transmission electron microscopes are versatile instruments which have become indispensable tools for understanding structure and chemical composition at the nano- and…Structural BiologyAdvanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
SNM-VFI: Symmetric Nonlinear Motion-Guided Generative Video Frame Interpolation

14 August 2026

We propose Symmetric Nonlinear Motion-guided Generative Video Frame Interpolation (SNM-VFI), a training-free framework for motion-controllable generative video frame interpolation…VisionGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Lab countries - last 90 days

Other countries

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  1. United States38% · 26,375 papers
  2. China33% · 22,828 papers
  3. United Kingdom7.5% · 5,251 papers
  4. Germany7.2% · 4,984 papers
  5. India4.6% · 3,181 papers
  6. Canada4.5% · 3,159 papers
  7. France4.1% · 2,865 papers
  8. South Korea4.1% · 2,859 papers
  9. Hong Kong SAR China3.2% · 2,247 papers
  10. Japan3.2% · 2,234 papers
  11. Australia3.1% · 2,160 papers
  12. Italy2.9% · 1,987 papers
  13. Singapore2.8% · 1,952 papers
  14. Switzerland2.3% · 1,611 papers

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Across 69,649 papers with at least one lab located, i.e. 76% of the 91,354 papers fully processed between 27 October 2025 and 21 August 2026. 167 countries represented.

This is the country of the laboratory, never the nationality of individuals. A paper signed from several countries counts for each of them, so the shares add up to more than 100%. Coverage is partial and the gap is not random: a researcher whose institution is unknown usually publishes little, which over-represents established labs.

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