Yusuke Iwasawa

Academic professional with extensive expertise on foundation and application of deep learning and generative AI. Extensive experience of supervising students. Over 20 publications at top tier conferences including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, EMNLP, NAACL, ICRA, etc. Hiring and managing large scale research group on the collaboration with 10+ researchers and 50+ students. Experienced with distributing lectures about the basic of deep learning and large language models.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nRLaJiQAAAAJ&hl=ja&oi=ao

• Meiyun Wang, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo. "Lost in the Distance: Large Language Models Struggle to Capture Long-Distance Relational Knowledge". NAACL 2025.
• Gouki Minegishi, Hiroki Furuta, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo “Rethinking Evaluation of Sparse Autoencoders through the Representation of Polysemous Words”. ICLR 2025.
• Shohei Taniguchi, Keno Harada, Gouki Minegishi, Yuta Oshima, Seong Cheol Jeong, Go Nagahara, Tomoshi Iiyama, Masahiro Suzuki, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo. “ADOPT: Modified Adam Can Converge with Any with the Optimal Rate”, NeurIPS 2024.
• Fumiya Uchiyama, Takeshi Kojima, Andrew Gambardella, Qi Cao, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, “Which Programming Language and What Features at Pre-training Stage Affect Downstream Logical Inference Performance?”, EMNLP 2024.
• Yongmin Kim, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo. “Decoupling Noise and Toxic Parameters for Language Model Detoxification by Task Vector Merging”. COLM 2024.
• Jiaxian Guo*, Bo Yang*, Paul Yoo, Bill Yuchen Lin, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo. “Suspicion Agent: Playing Imperfect Information Games with Theory of Mind Aware GPT-4”. COLM 2024.
• Andrew Gambardella, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo. “Language Models Do Hard Arithmetic Tasks Easily and Hardly Do Easy Arithmetic Tasks“, ACL 2024.
• Mimo Shirasaka, Tatsuya Matsushima, Soshi Tsunashima, Yuya Ikeda, Aoi Horo, So Ikoma, Chikaha Tsuji, Hikaru Wada, Tsunekazu Omija, Dai Komukai, Yutaka Matsuo, Yusuke Iwasawa. “Self-recovery prompting: Promptable general purpose service robot system with foundation models and self-recovery”, ICRA 2024.
• So Kuroki, Jiaxian Guo, Tatsuya Matsushima, Takuya Okubo, Masato Kobayashi, Yuya Ikeda, Ryosuke Takanami, Paul Yoo, Yutaka Matsuo, Yusuke Iwasawa. “GenDOM: Generalizable One-shot Deformable Object Manipulation with Parameter-Aware Policy“, ICRA 2024.