Kazuma HASHIMOTO / 橋本 和真
Current role: TBA
- 2024/07--2026/07 Staff Research Scientist, Google DeepMind (CA, US)- 2021/09--2024/06 Senior Research Scientist, Google Research (CA, US)
- 2018/08--2021/08 Lead Research Scientist, Salesforce Research (CA, US)
- 2018/04--2018/06 Visiting researcher, the same lab
- 2013/04--2018/03 Master/PhD, University of Tokyo (EEIS, Prof. Yoshimasa Tsuruoka)
- 2008/04--2013/03 Undergrad, University of Tokyo (EEIC)
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Research areas at Google DeepMind:
A few areas in post-training of Gemini- Value estimation of in-context examples for few-shot to many-shot ICL in SFT
- Extensive collaboration with NotebookLM
- Native long context (LC): prompt with ~1M tokens
-- Organizing LC thinking SFT data
-- Analysis on thinking quality and efficiency in LC
-- Improving thinking efficiency for LC in RL
- Agentic long context
-- Robust processing of LC prompt
-- Large and/or many text file inputs
-- Multi-modal document understanding
-- Analysis on step-by-step thinking
Research areas at Google Research:
- Precision-focused reward optimization for sequence tagging in Shopping query- Value estimation of queried/retrieved/generated items for products (Ads/Shopping) and LLMs
Research areas at Salesforce:
- Improving human expert's productivity for Web page localization- Open-domain, multi-hop QA
- Few-shot dialogue understanding
- Building goal-oriented chatbot system with few-shot learning
Publications
- Google Scholar- Semantic Scholar
Side activities
- Research assistant volunteer at CircleCat- Teaching assistant volunteer at CS in English
Links:
- Google Research- Github