Wataru Hirota
I will attend the Japan Marketing Association’s Multi-City Conference in Osaka on February 28, 2026. Looking forward to discussions with attendees on site.
I will be speaking at a seminar hosted by Stockmark Inc.: “Why Can’t RAG Find That ‘Tacit Knowledge’? Formalizing Knowledge by Connecting Figures and Context with VLM × Knowledge Graph”. URL
(In Japanese) I wrote an article titled “Is LLM-based Public Opinion Polling Possible? (LLM世論調査は可能なのか?)” discussing the possibilities and current state of LLM-based simulation.
I will serve as an organizer for the Mirai NLP Workshop (in Japanese), to be held at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026) (in Japanese) in March 2026. I will mainly be in charge of the Shared Task. Details and registration are available here (in Japanese).
The Bibbidi open innovation platform—where I contributed to building the knowledge-graph data— was featured on AIST’s website (in Japanese). An exhibition at CEATEC 2025 @ Makuhari Messe is also planned.
At the AgentScen workshop at IJCAI 2025 in Montréal, we hosted the Product Business Idea Generation (PBIG) Shared Task.
Our paper was accepted to SIGDIAL 2025. This work is a collaboration with Ueda (AIST RA), Ishigaki (AIST), and Stockmark.
Exploring Design of Multi-Agent LLM Dialogues for Research Ideation. arXiv.