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2026

  • 2026.04 — Our demonstration paper EasyRAG: A Beginner-friendly and Interactive Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Generation was accepted by SIGIR 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

  • 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

  • 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.

2023

  • 2023.08 — Prof. Joemon Jose from the University of Glasgow visited II-Research.
  • 2023.07 — A visiting team from the School of Information Management at Wuhan University visited II-Research.

2022

  • 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.
  • 2022.07 — Prof. Hai-Tao Yu's research was featured in University of Tsukuba research news: Find What You're Looking for with Probabilistic Result Diversification.

2021

  • 2021.12 — Our paper Optimize What You Evaluate With: Search Result Diversification Based on Metric Optimization was accepted by AAAI 2022.
  • 2021.02 — Naoki Muramoto received the Dean of the Graduate School's Award.

2020

  • 2020.09 — Naoki Muramoto received an ACM SIGIR Student Travel Grant for CIKM 2020.
  • 2020.07 — Naoki Muramoto's paper on deep metric learning was accepted by CIKM 2020.
  • 2020.04 — The lab was renamed II-Research, short for Information Intelligence Research.

2019

  • 2019.03 — Naoki Muramoto's paper on image caption generation was published in the Journal of the Japan Society of Information and Knowledge.

2018

  • 2018.10 — Our paper WassRank: Listwise Document Ranking Using Optimal Transport Theory was accepted by WSDM 2019.
  • 2018.04 — The laboratory website was launched.