Yunkee Chae

Music and Audio Research Group (MARG), Seoul National University

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I am currently a PhD candidate at the Music and Audio Research Group (MARG), Seoul National University. My primary research interests include audio separation, audio codecs, and audio generation. Previously, I interned at Sony AI in Tokyo, Japan, and I will soon start an internship at MERL in Cambridge, MA, USA.

Education

Master’s and Ph.D. Integrated Course in Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence

Seoul National University

  • Music and Audio Research Group (MARG), Seoul National University
  • Supervisor: Prof. Kyogu Lee
  • Mar. 2021 ~ Present

B.S. in Mathematical Sciences

Seoul National University

  • Supervisor: Prof. David Donghoon Hyeon

For a more detailed overview of my experience, please refer to my CV.

selected publications

  1. ICASSP
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    Variable Bitrate Residual Vector Quantization for Audio Coding
    Yunkee Chae, Woosung Choi, Yuhta Takida, and 8 more authors
    In ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
    Work done during internship at Sony AI , 2025
    DOI arXiv Code Website
  2. Preprint
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    MGE-LDM: Joint Latent Diffusion for Simultaneous Music Generation and Source Extraction
    Yunkee Chae and Kyogu Lee
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23305, 2025
    arXiv Code Website
  3. Interspeech
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    Towards Bitrate-Efficient and Noise-Robust Speech Coding with Variable Bitrate RVQ
    Yunkee Chae and Kyogu Lee
    In Interspeech 2025, 2025
    arXiv Code Website