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[Alpha Biz= Kim Jisun] SEOUL, Dec. 9 — Team NAVER, which has made artificial intelligence (AI) a core strategic priority, has achieved a series of research milestones with multiple AI papers accepted by prestigious international academic conferences. The company plans to strengthen its competitiveness in “sovereign AI” through continued aggressive investment in AI research and development (R&D).
Team NAVER announced on Dec. 9 that ten of its research papers have been accepted to NeurIPS 2025, one of the world’s most influential AI conferences. The selected works highlight three pillars of NAVER’s full-stack AI strategy:
efficient operation of large-scale AI,
enhanced safety for generative AI, and
expansion of AI into the physical world and robotics.
Key innovations include a cache compression technology that selectively compresses critical data to reduce memory usage by up to fourfold while doubling processing speed without degrading model performance. NAVER also introduced research demonstrating that eliminating unnecessary intermediate steps in a large language model’s chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning can maintain accuracy while significantly improving computational efficiency.
NAVER’s work on improving the quality and safety of AI-generated outputs also drew attention. Its research includes:
a new benchmark that precisely evaluates content quality in conversational search environments,
a text-embedding method that more accurately reflects user intent during image generation, and
a safety-control technique that suppresses harmful content generation without requiring additional fine-tuning.
NAVER further presented research on extending AI capabilities into the physical world. Notable examples include a method that improves learning efficiency in robots and video environments by compressing sequential scene information into bottleneck tokens, and a model architecture that enables robots to remember dynamic surroundings and autonomously navigate changing spaces.
NAVER has also achieved strong results at other top-tier global conferences. At CVPR 2025, one of the most prestigious venues in computer vision, 14 papers were accepted, including its 3D reconstruction AI tool DUSt3R. In addition, at ACM CHI 2025, the world’s leading conference for human–computer interaction (HCI), NAVER’s “Access Talk” project — designed to help nonverbal children with autism communicate with their parents — was selected as one of the Top 50 Best Papers.
Alphabiz Reporter Kim Jisun(stockmk2020@alphabiz.co.kr)
