Graduate Student

Jaedong Hwang

PhD, EECS · co-advised with Paul Liang

I am a graduate student in the EECS department at MIT. Before that, I completed my MSc degree in ECE advised by Professor Bohyung Han and BS degree in CSE at Seoul National University, mainly focusing on computer vision.

My research journey is to reduce the gap between natural and artificial intelligence by discovering what makes humans start to learn or explore — such as curiosity — and how humans can learn from a small amount of data or coarse-grained data while machines cannot. To do so, I am broadly interested in the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and psychology.

Publications (12)

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Learn globally, speak locally: Bridging the gaps in multilingual reasoning

J. Hwang, T. Kumar, S. Lee, A. Agrawal, H. Palangi, A. Kumar, I. Fiete+, P. Liang+

arXiv preprint · 2025 LLM arXiv
A Multi-Region Brain Model to Elucidate the Role of Hippocampus in Spatially Embedded Decision-Making

Yi Xie, J. Hwang, C. Brody, D. Tank, I. Fiete

ICML · 2025 Decision making Memory Navigation circuits and spatial cognition bioRxiv
ImageNet-RIB Benchmark: Large Pre-Training Datasets Don't Guarantee Robustness after Fine-Tuning

J. Hwang, B. Cheung, Z. Hong, A. Boopathy, P. Agrawal, I. Fiete

arXiv preprint · 2024 Theoretical ML arXiv
Breaking Neural Network Scaling Laws with Modularity

A. Boopathy, S. S. Jiang, W. Yue, J. Hwang, A. Iyer, I. Fiete

arXiv preprint · 2024 Theoretical ML arXiv
Towards Exact Computation of Inductive Bias

A. Boopathy, W. Yue, J. Hwang, A. Iyer, I. Fiete

IJCAI · 2024 Theoretical ML arXiv
Grid Cell-Inspired Fragmentation and Recall for Efficient Map Building

J. Hwang, Z. Hong, E. Chen, A. Boopathy, P. Agrawal, I. Fiete

TMLR · 2024 Navigation circuits and spatial cognition Memory Neuro-Inspired AI OpenReview
A Multi-Region Brain Model to Shed Light on the Role of Hippocampus in Spatially Embedded Decision Tasks

X. Yi, J. Hwang, C. Brody, D. Tank, I. Fiete

CCN · 2024 Decision making Memory Navigation circuits and spatial cognition Link
Rapid Learning without Catastrophic Forgetting in the Morris Water Maze

R. Wang, J. Hwang, A. Boopathy, I. Fiete

ICML · 2024 Memory Navigation circuits and spatial cognition Neuro-Inspired AI Journal
Neuro-Inspired Fragmentation and Recall to Overcome Catastrophic Forgetting in Curiosity

J. Hwang, Z. Hong, E. Chen, A. Boopathy, P. Agrawal, I. Fiete

arXiv preprint · 2023 Memory Neuro-Inspired AI arXiv
Generalizable Relational Inference with Cognitive Maps in a Hippocampal Model and in Primates

J. Hwang, S. Neupane, M. Jazayeri, I. Fiete

NeurIPS Workshop (AMHN) · 2023 Memory Navigation circuits and spatial cognition OpenReview
Model-agnostic measure of generalization difficulty

A. Boopathy, K. Liu, J. Hwang, S. Ge, A. Mohammedsaleh, I. Fiete

ICML · 2023 Theoretical ML Journal
A Grid Cell-Place Cell Scaffold Allows Rapid Learning and Generalization at Multiple Levels on Mental Navigation Tasks

J. Hwang, S. Neupane, M. Jazayeri, I. Fiete

CCN · 2023 Navigation circuits and spatial cognition Memory Link