Invited Talk
How humans construct knowledge systems: Symbol grounding and abduction
Mutsumi Imai
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Representative Director, Mutsumi Imai Educational Research Institute

Research Talk A
From the study of embodied empathy to supporting family wellbeing
- Understanding embodied empathy and connecting distant families via bodily information transfer -
Aiko Murata, Human Information Science Laboratory

Research Talk B
Techniques for “reading the room” in attentive conversational AI
- Understanding dialogue context through multimodal information and incremental response generation –
Yuya Chiba, Innovative Communication Laboratory

Research Talk C
AI that learns to listen on its own
- Advancing self-supervised audio representation toward cutting-edge sound understanding with large language models –
Daisuke Niizumi, Media Information Laboratory

Research Talk D
Discovery of hidden knowledge in data relationships
- Prospects for reliable healthcare through infinite-hypothesis AI models that interpret biological phenomena –
Masahiro Nakano, Media Information Laboratory

Research Talk E
Children perceive minds in robots
- Learning companion robots for the future of early childhood education –
Yuko Okumura, Innovative Communication Laboratory

Science of Machine Learning

• Collaborative learning with multiple thoughts　- Transparent prediction based on decision tree superposition –
• Accurate spatial prediction with limited data　- Meta-learning based on neural Gaussian processes –
• AI can adapt to new environments without labels　- Theoretical understanding of source-free domain adaptation –
• Toward the realization of low-power optical AI　- Training of optical neural networks with special structure –
• A mathematical link for light-matter interaction　- New unification through non-commutative harmonic oscillators –
• Crafting noises in quantum computing!　- Reshaping noises to improve accuracy of quantum computation –

Science of Media Information

• Touch experience without contact　- Non-contact rendering of texture by focused ultrasound –
• Cleaning-up speech from noisy, reverberant recordings　- Ensemble of multi-stream diffusion model enhances speech –
• Live streaming with real-time voice conversion　- Real-time voice conversion with high quality and low latency –
• Enhancing general data compression　- Code-tree sets for efficient versatile lossless encoding –

Science of Communication and Computation

• Children behave well in front of a social robot　- Interactive robots promote children's prosocial behavior –
• Secondborns’ lower verbal skills improve in school-age　- The effect of older siblings on child language development –
• Faithful translation without excess or deficiency　- Preference optimization for LLM-based translation –
• Capturing temporal relationship changes on SNS　- Social orbits: Linking SNS logs and sociological concepts –

Science of Human

• Let me lead you through the city, empowered by AI　- Toward a real-world deployment of tactile gadget Buru-Navi4 –
• Supporting family bonds with hospitalized babies　- An embodied online visitation for NICU newborns and families –
• Seeing the essence of baseball batting　- Winning visual strategies of professional baseball players –
• The “Batting eye” in action　- Motor control underlies rapid decisions –
• Unseen light that enhances cognitive task performance　- Interventions in mental states via ipRGC-modulating light –
• Is oversleeping on free days really a problem!?　- Effect of chronic sleep debt on cognitive task performance –