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)

Email:

- kazumah@google.com
- hassy@logos.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- k.hashimoto@salesforce.com

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