Endowed Chair: World Model・Simulator

The development of world models and the evolution of simulator technology are the central technological issues in the future evolution of AI. In particular, world model is expected to become indispensable for platform construction and application development in fields of AI application that have a large social impact, such as robotics and semantic understanding of language. By securing a place for research and implementation of state-of-the-art world models, and educating industry about the technology, it is expected to promote readiness for practical application. In addition, through lectures and other educational activities, the project aims to develop human resources capable of handling world model technology.

• Yosuke Matsuda, Chairman and CEO, Square Enix AI & Arts Alchemy, Inc.
• Alan Sumiyama, Senior General Manager, Corporate Technology Strategy Division, Sony Group Inc.
• Hiroto Sugawara, General Manager, Global Innovation Strategy Division, NEC Corporation

• Shohei Taniguchi, Yusuke Iwasawa, Wataru Kumagai, Yutaka Matsuo, "Langevin Autoencoders for Learning Deep Latent Variable Models", NeurIPS2022
• Hiroki Furuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu, "Generalized Decision Transformer for Offline Hindsight Information Matching", ICLR2022
• Takeshi Kojima, Shixiang Shane Gu, Machel Reid, Yutaka Matsuo, Yusuke Iwasawa, "Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners, NeurIPS2022