News
2025
2025/12/9 At the online seminar “The Donation Market in the Age of AI: Envisioning Its Future” hosted by the Kyoto University Growth Strategy Headquarters, I gave a talk on “Decision-Making Problems in the Era of Large Language Models” and discussed the potential application of AI agents in the donation market.
2025/11/20 Our proposal for the international competition, “Delivery Robot Routing Problems (DRP) Challenge,” was accepted for the Competition Track @ AAMAS 2026.
2025/11/18 The result of our joint research with Accenture Japan was accepted to the ToM4AI Workshop@AAAI 2026.
Takafumi Shimizu, Ryo Furukawa, Yusuke Muraki, Eisuke Sonomoto, Kento Yamamoto, Rikuho Takeda, Yuta Konishi, Kazuma Fukumura, Takayuki Ito, Yuya Kanemoto, Shiyao Ding, Introducing Dialogue-Act Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation, AAAI ToM4AI workshop.
2025/11/13~14 I gave a poster presentation of "Your Next Token Prediction: A Multilingual Benchmark for Personalized Response Generation" @ The research meeting of the JST CREST Trusted AI project ( TKP Garden City Akihabara)
2025/10/13 The research work by Mr. Kento Ueda (M2), whom I have been assisting in supervision, and his collaborators was accepted.
Kento Ueda, Haruki Doi, Keiichiro Nii, Shiyao Ding, and Takayuki Ito, A Prototype of a Real-Time Information Providing Agent for Argumentation Support Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation Toward Social Implementation. the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Agentic AI (IEEE ICA 2025),5-7 December 2025, Wuhan, China (Regular Paper)
2025/10/7 I was invited by the Japan Office of the National Research Council Canada (NRC) to attend the Friends of NRC reception, where I had a good conversation with NRC President Mitch Davies and other representatives from industry and academia.
2025/10/3 My essay on human–AI coexistence, titled “The Role of Humans in the Era of Human–AI Coexistence,” was published in the Kyoto University Engineering Newsletter.
2025/9/3~9/5 I served as an organizer for the workshop “Creating My Personal AI: A Challenge toward Individualized Large Language Models,” successfully launched @ the Kyoto University Summer Design School, in collaboration with colleagues from industry and academia.
2025/8/23 The research work of Mr. Watanabe, a fourth-year undergraduate student whom I have been assisting in supervision, has been accepted to the following international conference in the field of artificial intelligence.
Soma Watanabe, Shiyao Ding and Takayuki Ito, Towards Autonomous Building Construction: A Multi-Agent Framework Leveraging Large Multimodal Models, the 22nd Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2025) to be held on 17-21 November, 2025, in Wellington, New Zealand. (Full Paper)
2025/6/26~27 I gave a poster presentation of "Asynchronous of Thought: A Multithreaded Framework for Parallel Reasoning with LLMs" @ The research meeting of the JST CREST Trusted AI project ( TKP Garden City Chiba)
2025/5/20 We successfully held the 2nd Drone Routing Problems (DRP) Challenge @ AAMAS 2025 in Detroit. A total of 27 participants from 16 teams joined the competition, marking a 208% increase compared to the previous edition.
2025/2/28 We concluded a joint research agreement with Accenture Japan on "consensus building and negotiation among multi-agents using large language models", with Professor Ito as the principal investigator and myself as the research supervisor.
