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Amu Suemoto

Suemoto Amu · 末本 歩夢

Graduate researcher on trustworthy AI — fairness and robustness of vision-language models, and mechanistic interpretability for safer small language models.

Vision-Language ModelsFairness & Bias MitigationRobust Representation LearningLoRA / PEFTMechanistic Interpretability (SAEs)AI Safety & Alignment
Amu Suemoto
01 — PortraitAmu Suemoto
Born
2003-02-18/ age 23
Best language
Python
Best AI
Claude Code
Hobbies
Research · Development · Strength training · Kaggle

Publications at a glance

Counts across all conference, workshop and journal submissions.

Submissions
12
Under Review
4
Accepted
4
CORE A*
3
Awards
2

News

Activity log

Research & development updates

Publications, presentations, selections, awards, and ongoing work.

Updates
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2026

31 updates
  1. Not accepted

    ACM CIKM 2026 (CORE A) — paper not accepted.

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  2. Submitted

    Submitted to ACM KDD 2027 (Cycle 1) (CORE A*).

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  3. Submitted

    Submitted to IPSJ DPSWS 2026.

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  4. Presented

    Spoke at the Fukuoka Mitou 2026 Grow / Solve Course Information Session & Corporate Challenge Presentations at FGN as a selected creator in the Fukuoka Mitou 2026 Pro course.

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  5. Accepted

    Will present GRoFA at IWCS 2026 (The 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Synergy).

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  6. Presented

    Reported research progress at the 61st SI Workshop, co-hosted with the ERATO Information Well-being Project.

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  7. Accepted

    ACM ICMI 2026 (CORE B) accepted “GRoFA: Noise-Gated Adapters for Jointly Fair and Robust Face Embeddings”.

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  8. Award

    Excellent Presentation Award at IPSJ DICOMO 2026 Symposium for “GRoFA: ノイズゲート付きアダプタによる公平でロバストな顔画像埋め込みの学習”.

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  9. Award

    1st Place, Night Technical Session at IPSJ DICOMO 2026 Symposium for “研究室環境における娯楽活動検知システムに対する回避手法の提案と評価”.

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  10. Presented

    Presented at IPSJ DICOMO 2026 (Fukuoka, Japan) — GRoFA: ノイズゲート付きアダプタによる公平でロバストな顔画像埋め込みの学習.

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  11. Accepted

    Selected for the Fukuoka Mitou 2026 Pro course with “LabAgent — Companion Local Agent Framework” (up to ¥1.25M in development support).

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  12. Kaggle

    Finished Kaggle NVIDIA Nemotron Model Reasoning Challenge at 2903 / 4,183 (top 69.4%).

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  13. Passed

    Passed the first-stage screening of the Fukuoka Mitou 2026 Pro course.

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  14. Applied

    Submitted application to the Fukuoka Mitou 2026 Pro course.

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  15. Submitted

    Submitted to ACM CIKM 2026 (CORE A).

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  16. Applied

    Submitted application to the MEXT AI for Science Pioneering and Exploratory Research Creation Project (SPReAD).

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  17. Accepted

    Submitted the camera-ready version of the IPSJ DICOMO 2026 paper “GRoFA: ノイズゲート付きアダプタによる公平でロバストな顔画像埋め込みの学習”.

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  18. Applied

    Submitted application for the JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1).

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  19. Milestone

    Selected for the Xiaomi MiMo Orbit: 100T Token Grant for Builders — awarded 700,000,000 credits on the MiMo API Platform (≈ ¥85,000).

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  20. Kaggle

    Finished Kaggle Playground Series — Season 6 Episode 4 at 554 / 4,315 (top 12.8%).

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  21. Submitted

    Submitted to NeurIPS 2026 (CORE A*).

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  22. Not accepted

    IJCAI 2026 (CORE A*) — paper not accepted.

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  23. Submitted

    Submitted to ACM ICMI 2026 (CORE B).

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  24. Accepted

    IPSJ DICOMO 2026 accepted “GRoFA: ノイズゲート付きアダプタによる公平でロバストな顔画像埋め込みの学習”.

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  25. Submitted

    Submitted to IEICE Trans. 2026.

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  26. Submitted

    Submitted to IPSJ DICOMO 2026.

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  27. Not accepted

    RCIS 2026 (CORE B) — paper not accepted.

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  28. Milestone

    Selected as a 2026 candidate of the Kyushu University WISE Program for Sustainability in the Dynamic Earth (K2-SPRING), Health-Tech Unit.

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  29. Submitted

    Submitted to IJCAI 2026 (CORE A*).

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  30. Not accepted

    IEEE ICASSP 2026 (CORE B) — paper not accepted.

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  31. Submitted

    Submitted to RCIS 2026 (CORE B).

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2025

6 updates
  1. Presented

    Presented at DW-WS #9 (Amami Oshima, Japan).

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  2. Presented

    Presented at IPSJ DPSWS 2025 (Kochi, Japan) — 大規模視覚言語モデルの社会的バイアス軽減とガウシアンノイズ耐性向上に向けた表現学習手法.

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  3. Submitted

    Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2026 (CORE B).

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  4. Accepted

    IPSJ DPSWS 2025 accepted “大規模視覚言語モデルの社会的バイアス軽減とガウシアンノイズ耐性向上に向けた表現学習手法”.

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  5. Presented

    Presented at DW-WS #8 (Hakodate, Japan).

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  6. Submitted

    Submitted to IPSJ DPSWS 2025.

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Publications

Journal Articles

Under Review1

IEICE Trans. 2026

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Journal
Under Review
Submitted
Mar 28, 2026

Conferences & Workshops

Under Review3

ACM KDD 2027 (Cycle 1)

The 33rd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining — Cycle 1

CORE A*
Under ReviewSan Jose, CA, USA
Submitted
Jul 26, 2026
Notification
Nov 14, 2026
Conference
Aug 1–5, 2027

IPSJ DPSWS 2026

IPSJ Distributed Processing System Workshop

Domestic
Under ReviewHakodate, Japan
Submitted
Jul 15, 2026
Notification
Sep 4, 2026
Conference
Nov 4–6, 2026

NeurIPS 2026

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

CORE A*
Under ReviewSydney, Australia
Submitted
May 1, 2026
Notification
Sep 25, 2026
Conference
Dec 6–12, 2026

Presented2

IPSJ DICOMO 2026

IPSJ Multimedia, Distributed, Cooperative, and Mobile Symposium

Domestic
PresentedFukuoka, Japan1st Place, Night Technical SessionExcellent Presentation Award
Submitted
Mar 18, 2026
Notification
Apr 10, 2026
Conference
Jun 24–26, 2026

Title: GRoFA: ノイズゲート付きアダプタによる公平でロバストな顔画像埋め込みの学習

Authors: Amu Suemoto, Yutaka Arakawa, Tsunenori Mine

IPSJ DPSWS 2025

IPSJ Distributed Processing System Workshop

Domestic
PresentedKochi, Japan
Submitted
Aug 1, 2025
Notification
Sep 12, 2025
Conference
Nov 5–7, 2025

Title: 大規模視覚言語モデルの社会的バイアス軽減とガウシアンノイズ耐性向上に向けた表現学習手法

Authors: Amu Suemoto, Yutaka Arakawa, Tsunenori Mine

Accepted2

ACM ICMI 2026

ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

CORE B
AcceptedNaples, ItalyLong Paper
Submitted
Apr 22, 2026
Notification
Jul 2, 2026
Conference
Oct 5–9, 2026

Title: GRoFA: Noise-Gated Adapters for Jointly Fair and Robust Face Embeddings

IWCS 2026

The 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Synergy

Workshop
AcceptedKuju/Aso, Japan
Conference
Aug 27–29, 2026

Title: GRoFA: Noise-Gated Adapters for Learning Fair and Robust Face Embeddings

Decisions4

ACM CIKM 2026

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

CORE A
RejectedRome, Italy
Submitted
May 23, 2026
Notification
Aug 7, 2026
Conference
Nov 7–11, 2026

IJCAI 2026

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

CORE A*
RejectedBremen, Germany
Submitted
Jan 23, 2026
Notification
Apr 25, 2026
Conference
Aug 15–21, 2026

IEEE ICASSP 2026

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing

CORE B
RejectedBarcelona, Spain
Submitted
Sep 17, 2025
Notification
Jan 22, 2026
Conference
May 4–8, 2026

RCIS 2026

Research Challenges in Information Science

CORE B
RejectedToulouse, France
Submitted
Jan 9, 2026
Notification
Mar 15, 2026
Conference
May 26–29, 2026

Awards

Awards and recognitions from research presentations and technical sessions.

Excellent Presentation Award

IPSJ DICOMO 2026 Symposium

Title: GRoFA: ノイズゲート付きアダプタによる公平でロバストな顔画像埋め込みの学習

Authors: 末本歩夢, 荒川豊, 峯恒憲

Affiliation: Kyushu University Arakawa, Mine & Fukushima Laboratory

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1st Place, Night Technical Session

IPSJ DICOMO 2026 Symposium

Title: 研究室環境における娯楽活動検知システムに対する回避手法の提案と評価

Authors: 平岡滉司, 谷澤健太, 末本歩夢, 畑倫平, 黒木瑞穂, 松田圭祐, 原田佳祐, 畑本悠希

Affiliation: Kyushu University Arakawa, Mine & Fukushima Laboratory

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Funded Projects

Selected paid research and development programs with explicit funding support.

Selected

Reiwa 9 (FY2027) candidate, Health-Tech Unit

Kyushu University WISE Program for Sustainability in the Dynamic Earth (K2-SPRING)

Research support program for doctoral talent development at Kyushu University.

Research grant
¥200,000 / month
Research budget
¥350,000 / year
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Selected

LabAgent — Companion Local Agent Framework

Fukuoka Mitou 2026 Pro Course

Development project for a local agent framework that continuously supports research and development workflows.

Development support
Up to ¥1,250,000
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Research Timeline

A chronological view of recent paper submissions, decisions, and conference dates.

SubmittedAcceptedRejectedPresentedConference

Upcoming

  1. Conference

    IWCS 2026 — Conference begins

    WorkshopKuju/Aso, Japan
  2. Conference

    ACM ICMI 2026 — Conference begins

    CORE BNaples, Italy
  3. Conference

    IPSJ DPSWS 2026 — Conference begins

    DomesticHakodate, Japan
  4. Conference

    NeurIPS 2026 — Conference begins

    CORE A*Sydney, Australia
  5. Conference

    ACM KDD 2027 (Cycle 1) — Conference begins

    CORE A*San Jose, CA, USA

Past

2026
  1. Rejected

    Rejected from ACM CIKM 2026

    CORE ARome, Italy
  2. Submitted

    Submitted to ACM KDD 2027 (Cycle 1)

    CORE A*San Jose, CA, USA
  3. Submitted

    Submitted to IPSJ DPSWS 2026

    DomesticHakodate, Japan
  4. Accepted

    Accepted to ACM ICMI 2026

    CORE BNaples, Italy
  5. Presented

    Presented at IPSJ DICOMO 2026

    DomesticFukuoka, Japan
  6. Submitted

    Submitted to ACM CIKM 2026

    CORE ARome, Italy
  7. Submitted

    Submitted to NeurIPS 2026

    CORE A*Sydney, Australia
  8. Rejected

    Rejected from IJCAI 2026

    CORE A*Bremen, Germany
  9. Submitted

    Submitted to ACM ICMI 2026

    CORE BNaples, Italy
  10. Accepted

    Accepted to IPSJ DICOMO 2026

    DomesticFukuoka, Japan
  11. Submitted

    Submitted to IEICE Trans. 2026

    Journal
  12. Submitted

    Submitted to IPSJ DICOMO 2026

    DomesticFukuoka, Japan
  13. Rejected

    Rejected from RCIS 2026

    CORE BToulouse, France
  14. Submitted

    Submitted to IJCAI 2026

    CORE A*Bremen, Germany
  15. Rejected

    Rejected from IEEE ICASSP 2026

    CORE BBarcelona, Spain
  16. Submitted

    Submitted to RCIS 2026

    CORE BToulouse, France
2025
  1. Presented

    Presented at DW-WS #9

    DomesticAmami Oshima, Japan
  2. Presented

    Presented at IPSJ DPSWS 2025

    DomesticKochi, Japan
  3. Submitted

    Submitted to IEEE ICASSP 2026

    CORE BBarcelona, Spain
  4. Accepted

    Accepted to IPSJ DPSWS 2025

    DomesticKochi, Japan
  5. Presented

    Presented at DW-WS #8

    DomesticHakodate, Japan
  6. Submitted

    Submitted to IPSJ DPSWS 2025

    DomesticKochi, Japan

Kaggle

Education

Schools attended, in chronological order.

  1. Apr 2027 – Ph.D.Planned

    Kyushu University, Graduate School (Doctoral Program)

    Department of Advanced Information Technology, Information Science and Electrical Engineering (ISEE)

  2. Apr 2025 – OngoingM.E.Ongoing

    Kyushu University, Graduate School

    Department of Advanced Information Technology, Information Science and Electrical Engineering (ISEE)

  3. Apr 2021 – Mar 2025B.E.

    Yamaguchi University, Faculty of Engineering

    Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering

  4. Apr 2018 – Mar 2021High School

    Hiroshima Municipal Funairi High School

    General Course

Experience

Competitive Cycling

2021 – 2023Promoted to E2 (Mar 2023)

Japan Bicycle Club Federation (JBCF)

Competed as a registered semi-pro rider in JBCF road races during my undergraduate years. Promoted to E2 category in March 2023.

Internships

Skills

AI / ML

PythonPyTorchHuggingFace TransformersPEFT / LoRASAE Lensscikit-learnPandasOptunaLightGBMWeights & BiasesvLLMOllamaMLX

Backend

FastAPINode.jsBunFlaskJavaClick

Frontend

TypeScriptReactNext.jsTailwind CSSFlutterDart

Infrastructure

DockerLinuxCUDAGitHub ActionsLaTeXCloudflare

AI Tools & Models

Learning

GoRust

Open Source

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