Conference Program

September 9th (Monday)

12:30-13:30 Conference registration
13:30-13:45 Opening remarks
13:45-14:00 Group Photo

[Oral Presentation Session 1 (Chair: Chenhui Chu)]
14:00-14:25 Zuchao Li (Wuhan University): LLM Inference and KV Cache Optimization
14:25-14:50 Masaaki Nagata (NTT): JParaCrawl Chinese and Japanese-to-Chinese Translation in the WMT General Machine Translation Task

14:50-15:20 Coffee Break

[Oral Presentation Session 2 (Chair: Rui Wang)]
15:20-15:45 Xianpei Han (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences): Spiral of Silence: How is Large Language Model Killing Information Retrieval?—A Case Study on Open Domain Question Answering
15:45-16:10 Sadao Kurohashi (NII/Kyoto University): LLM-jp
16:10-16:35 Zhuosheng Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University): Caution for the Environment: Multimodal Agents are Susceptible to Environmental Distractions

16:35-16:50 Short Break

16:50-18:00 [Poster Presentation Session 1]
Rui Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University): The Difference of Learning between Human and LM
Cunli Mao (Kunming University of Science and Technology): DETS: End-to-End Single-Stage Text-to-Speech via Hierarchical Diffusion Gan Models
Zhen Wan (Kyoto University): Reformulating Domain Adaptation of Large Language Models as Adapt-Retrieve-Revise: A Case Study on Chinese Legal Domain
Zhousi Chen (Hitotsubashi University): Finding Length Controlling Neurons during LLM Generative Process
Shanshan Liu (RIKEN): Mention Agnostic Biomedical Concept Identification
Xiaotian Wang (University of Tsukuba): Parallel Document Alignment considering Overlapping Fixed-Length Segments
Hibiki Yokoyama (University of Tsukuba): Aggregating Impressions on Celebrities and their Reasons through LLMs and RAG

18:30-20:30 Banquet

September 10th (Tuesday)

[Oral Presentation Session 3 (Chair: Fei Cheng)]

09:00-09:25 Hai Zhao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University): BriLLM: Brain-inspired Large Language Model
09:25-09:50 Haiyue Song (NICT): DiverSeg: Leveraging Diverse Segmentations with Cross-granularity Alignment for Neural Machine Translation
09:50-10:15 Tong Xiao (Northeastern University, China): Large Language Model Alignment as Reranking in Hypothesis Spaces

10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

[Oral Presentation Session 4 (Chair: Zhuosheng Zhang)]
10:45-11:10 Hitoshi Isahara and Kyoko Kanzaki (Otemon Gakuin University): Application of NLP to Medical Practice and Tourism
11:10-11:35 Jiajun Zhang (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences): BLSP-Emo: Towards Empathetic Large Speech-Language Models
11:35-12:00 Chenhui Chu (Kyoto University): Visual Scene-Aware Machine Translation

12:00-13:30 Lunch

[Oral Presentation Session 5 (Chair: Katsuhito Sudoh)]
13:30-13:55 Qin Dai (Tohoku University): Low-rank Subspace for Binding in Large Language Models
13:55-14:20 Kang Liu (Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences): Does Knowledge Localization Hold True? Investigating Knowledge in LLMs
14:20-14:45 Yoshimasa Tsuruoka (The University of Tokyo): Extending the Capability and Utility of Large Language Models

14:45-15:25 Coffee Break

15:25-16:35 [Poster Presentation Session 2]
Hailong Cao (Harbin Institute of Technology): Enhancing Bilingual Lexicon Induction via Bi-directional Translation Pair Retrieving
Qing Ma (Ryukoku University): Grammatical Error Detection in Japanese Using Deep Learning
Yahan Yu (Kyoto University): Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity Recognition
Keisuke Sakaguchi (Tohoku University/RIKEN AIP): SKETikZ: A Dataset for Sketch to Diagram
Yunmeng Li (Tohoku University):  Multidimensional Quality Metrics Chat Translation for Zh-En and Ja-En
Hiromi Nakaiwa (Nagoya University): Data Scientist Development Project through Academic-Industrial Collaboration
Junwen Mo (The University of Tokyo): Diverse Machine Translation for Ambiguous Sentences

16:45-17:00 Closing remarks

September 11th (Wednesday)

10:00-17:00 Overall discussion, lunch, and social event