Publications

Selected Papers#

Belief and AI#

Figure from Lee et al. 2025, Nature Human Behaviour: a semantic embedding space for human beliefs

A semantic embedding space based on large language models for modelling human beliefs.
Byunghwee Lee, Rachith Aiyappa, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Haewoon Kwak, and Jisun An. Nature Human Behaviour. 2025. Paper, Code, arXiv

Art and Data Science#

Figure from Lee et al. 2020, PNAS: information-theoretic dissection of landscape paintings

Dissecting landscape art history with information theory.
Byunghwee Lee+, Min Kyung Seo+, Daniel Kim, In-Seob Shin, Maximilian Schich, Hawoong Jeong, and Seung Kee Han. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020. Paper

Network Science#

Figure from Lee et al. 2025, Physica A: news press network and asymmetric user polarization

Network analysis reveals news press landscape and asymmetric user polarization.
Byunghwee Lee, Hyo-sun Ryu, Jae Kook Lee, Hawoong Jeong, and Beom Jun Kim. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2025. Paper

Preprints and Manuscripts Under Review#

(+ : Co-first, *: Corresponding authors)

  1. LLMs Can Infer Political Alignment from Online Conversations.
    Byunghwee Lee+, Sangyeon Kim+, Filippo Menczer, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Haewoon Kwak, and Jisun An. arXiv preprint. 2026. Paper
  2. A Benchmark for Zero-Shot Belief Inference in Large Language Models.
    Joseph Malone, Rachith Aiyappa, Byunghwee Lee, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, and Yong-Yeol Ahn*. arXiv preprint. 2025. Paper
  3. Context-aware Multimodal AI Reveals Hidden Pathways in Five Centuries of Art Evolution.
    Jin Kim, Byunghwee Lee, Taekho You*, and Jinhyuk Yun*. arXiv preprint. 2025. Paper
  4. Combined influence of artwork and artist features in predicting user generated art valuation.
    Seunghwan Kim, Soomin Lee, Byunghwee Lee*, and Wonjae Lee*. SSRN preprint. 2025. Paper

Published Papers#

(+ : Co-first, *: Corresponding authors)

  1. When the Classroom Disappeared: The Paradox of Assortativity in Co-Enrollment Networks.
    Byunghwee Lee, Jintae Bae, Jaeryong So, Eun Kyong Shin*. Social Constellations: A world Perspective. 2026. Paper

  2. A semantic embedding space based on large language models for modelling human beliefs.
    Byunghwee Lee, Rachith Aiyappa, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Haewoon Kwak*, and Jisun An*. Nature Human Behaviour. 2025. Paper

  3. Investigating the diversity and stylization of contemporary user generated visual arts in the complexity entropy plane.
    Seunghwan Kim+, Byunghwee Lee+, and Wonjae Lee*. Scientific Reports. 2025. Paper

  4. Network analysis reveals news press landscape and asymmetric user polarization.
    Byunghwee Lee, Hyo-sun Ryu, Jae Kook Lee, Hawoong Jeong, and Beom Jun Kim*. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 2025. Paper

  5. Uncovering hidden dependency in weighted networks via information entropy.
    Mi Jin Lee, Eun Lee, Byunghwee Lee, Hawoong Jeong, Deok-Sun Lee, and Sang Hoon Lee*. Physical Review Research. 2021. Paper

  6. Integrated infodemic surveillance system: the case of COVID-19 in South Korea.
    Gil-sung Park, Jintae Bae, Jong Hun Lee, Byung Yeon Yun, Byunghwee Lee, and Eun Kyong Shin*. Public Health and Informatics. 2021. Paper

  7. Dissecting landscape art history with information theory.
    Byunghwee Lee+, Min Kyung Seo+, Daniel Kim, In-seob Shin, Maximilian Schich, Hawoong Jeong*, and Seung Kee Han*. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020. Paper

  8. Multi-label classification of historical documents by using hierarchical attention networks.
    Dong-Kyum Kim+, Byunghwee Lee+, Daniel Kim, and Hawoong Jeong*. Journal of the Korean Physical Society. 2020. Paper

  9. 트위터로 본 메르스(MERS)의 사회적 영향: 대응 시기와 집단에 따른 목소리의 다양성 (Social influence of 2015 MERS outbreak on twitter: Diversity of online discourse over time and social groups).
    Byunghwee Lee and Hawoong Jeong*. 한국사회. 2020. Paper

  10. On-line (TweetNet) and Off-line (EpiNet): The Distinctive Structures of the Infectious.
    Byunghwee Lee, Hawoong Jeong, and Eun Kyong Shin*. In Explainable AI in Healthcare and Medicine: Building a Culture of Transparency and Accountability. 2020. Paper

  11. Information-theoretic analysis of color interaction in artistic paintings.
    Min Kyung Seo, In-Seob Shin, Seung Kee Han, Byunghwee Lee, and Hawoong Jeong*. New Physics: Sae Mulli. 2018. Paper

  12. Heterogeneity in chromatic distance in images and characterization of massive painting data set.
    Byunghwee Lee, Daniel Kim, Seunghye Sun, Hawoong Jeong*, and Juyong Park*. PLOS One. 2018. Paper

  13. N-gram web service and stylometric analysis of Korean historical documents.
    Byunghwee Lee, Daniel Kim, Dongwoo Kim, and Hawoong Jeong*. New Physics: Sae Mulli. 2016. Paper

Manuscripts in Preparation#

  1. The geometry of persuasion: Quantifying belief change in a latent embedding space.
    Byunghwee Lee, Jisun An*, Haewoon Kwak*, and Yong-Yeol Ahn*.

Articles and Book Chapters#

Articles and Magazines#

  1. Lee, Byunghwee. Art history seen through the eyes of physics (in Korean). APCTP Crossroad Webzine. 2021. Link
  2. Lee, Byunghwee and Hawoong Jeong. Math reveals the evolution of composition in paintings. The Science Breaker. 2021. Link
  3. Lee, Byunghwee and Hawoong Jeong. 네트워크 과학으로 살펴보는 사회적 거리두기와 접촉자 추적의 원리 (Principles of Social Distancing and Contact Tracing through Network Science). BT News. 2021. Link

Book Chapters#

  1. Lee, Byunghwee and Hawoong Jeong. 전염의 복잡계 과학적 접근 (Complex Science Approaches to the Contagion Phenomena). In Imagination of Contagion. 2017. Kyobo교보문고 Yes24