Hyochan Chong

I am a research engineer at Samsung Research, where I work on efficient LLMs and agentic systems.

I received my Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (double major) from Sungkyunkwan University. Previously, I was a research intern at SKKU IRIS Lab with Jong Hwan Ko, and a software engineer intern at Samsung Research, where I worked on model compression.

I am interested in building systems that are faster, cheaper, and deployable under real hardware constraints. Recently, I have been focusing on low-bit LLM quantization, LLM inference, and multi-agent systems.

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News

05/26: 2 papers are accepted to ICML 2026
03/26: Gave a talk on LLM quantization at SqueezeBits
02/25: Returning to Samsung Research as a research engineer
02/25: Graduated and finished my research internship at SKKU IRIS Lab, where I worked on quantization
12/24: Won 1st place in the 2024 National AI Chip Competition, for optimizing inference pipelines with FuriosaAI 1st gen NPUs
08/24: Finished my internship at Samsung Research, where I worked on quantization

Publications

clean-usnob NanoQuant: Efficient Sub-1-Bit Quantization of Large Language Models
Hyochan Chong*, Dongkyu Kim*, Changdong Kim, Minseop Choi
*equal contribution
ICML 2026

Accurate initialization and efficient reconstruction enables 1-bit and sub-1-bit post-training quantization of large language models.

clean-usnob RaBiT: Residual-Aware Binarization Training for Accurate and Efficient LLMs
Youngcheon You*, Banseok Lee*, Minseop Choi, Seonyoung Kim, Hyochan Chong, Changdong Kim, Youngmin Kim, Dongkyu Kim
ICML 2026

Quantization-aware training that directly addresses residual error from quantization leads to more accurate 2-bit large language models.


Honors and Awards

󠁯• 1st place (rank 1/108), 2024 National AI Chip Competition ($28,000 prize)
• Academic Excellence Scholarship, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024
• Dean's List, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024
• United Nations Medal, United Nations, 2022
• Peacekeeping Operations Medal, Ministry of National Defense, 2022