2026.09 — Event-centric Human Value Understanding in News-domain Texts: An Actor-conditioned Benchmark across Multi-scope Event Contexts, by Yao Wang, Xin Liu, Zhuochen Liu, Jiankang Chen, Adam Jatowt, Kyoungsook Kim, Noriko Kando, and Hai-Tao Yu, was accepted for publication in Information Processing & Management.
2026.09 — An Empirical Study of Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Language Models for Generative Commonsense Reasoning, by Yubo Fang, Hai-Tao Yu, Hideo Joho, Sumio Fujita, Yan Ge, and Chao Lei, was accepted for publication in Information Sciences.
2026.09 — Two LOTUS Programme proposals—Basic and ASPIRE—were accepted with collaborators from Cochin University of Science and Technology and the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, respectively.
2026.08 — Prof. Haiming Liu from the University of Southampton visited II-Research.
2026.06 — FSBKT: Federated Structural and Behavioral Prototype Learning for Privacy-Preserving Knowledge Tracing, a joint work by Yumo Yao, Jiankang Chen, and Hai-Tao Yu, was accepted as a full paper in the Research Track of IEEE SMC 2026.
2026.06 — Towards Adaptive and Retriever-friendly Retrieval-augmented Generation via Reinforcement Learning, a joint work by Yubo Fang, Hai-Tao Yu, Hideo Joho, and Sumio Fujita, was accepted as a full paper in the Research Track of ACM ICTIR 2026.
2026.04 — Our demonstration paper EasyRAG: A Beginner-friendly and Interactive Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation, by Xuanchen Zhou, Haitao Yu, Kaipeng Li, and Yubo Fang, was accepted by SIGIR 2026.
2026.04 — Multi-dimensional Hierarchical Temporal Alignment for Improved Temporal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models, by Yan Ge, Hai-Tao Yu, and Chao Lei, was accepted for publication in Information Processing & Management.
2026.04 — MCKT: A Parallel Mamba-based Model for Content-Aware Knowledge Tracing, by Yumo Yao and Hai-Tao Yu, was accepted for publication in IEEE Access.
2026.02 — Kaipeng Li received the Dean of the Graduate School's Award.
2026.01 — Retrieval-augmented Diffusion Language Model for Generative Commonsense Reasoning, a joint work by Yubo Fang, Hai-Tao Yu, Hideo Joho, and Sumio Fujita, was accepted as a full paper in the Research Track of DASFAA 2026.
2026.01 — Our proposal A Multi-Agent Debate Framework with Mixture-of-Experts and Retrieval-Augmented Counter Generation for Multimodal Misinformation Mitigation, in collaboration with Prof. Sriparna Saha, was accepted by the LOTUS Program.
2025.12 — II-Research members Hai-Tao Yu, Yating Zhang, Kaipeng Li, and Yubo Fang attended SIGIR-AP 2025, presenting research and organizing the R3AG 2025 workshop.
2025.08 — Our paper Emotional Earth Mover's Distance for Fine-grained Hierarchical Emotion Analysis was accepted by ADMA 2025.
2025.05 — Our task proposal Fact-based Event-centric Human-value Understanding was accepted as the NTCIR-19 pilot task FEHU.
2025.04–2026.03 — Prof. Hai-Tao Yu was on sabbatical leave, visiting the WINGS group at the National University of Singapore and the Representation Learning Lab at Westlake University.
2025.03 — Prof. Tian Bai from Jilin University visited II-Research.
2024.09 — Prof. Xin Kang from Tokushima University visited II-Research.
2024.07 — Prof. Adam Jatowt from the University of Innsbruck, Deputy Director Kyoung-sook Kim, and Chief Senior Researcher Xin Liu from AIST visited II-Research.
2022.09 — Naoya Muramatsu's paper Combining Spiking Neural Networks with Artificial Neural Networks for Enhanced Image Classification was accepted by IEICE Transactions.
2022.08 — Lirong Zhang's paper Selectively Expanding Queries and Documents for News Background Linking was accepted by CIKM 2022.