Hiroto Kurita
Hi there 👋 I am a 2nd-year M.S. student at TohokuNLP Group, Tohoku University, working with Kentaro Inui, Keisuke Sakaguchi and Sho Yokoi. I am looking for Ph.D. positions starting from Fall '25!
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News
- I recently started SWE intern at Apple, Cupertino.
Education
October 2022-
Present, Sendai
Tohoku University
M.S. in Information Science
Advisor: Kentaro Inui, Sho Yokoi
April 2019-
Sept. 2022, Sendai
Tohoku University
B.E. in Computer Science
Advisor: Kentaro Inui, Sho Yokoi
Early Graduation
Work Experiences
May-Aug 2024
Cupertino, CA
October 2023-
Present, Tokyo
Software Engineer Intern
Apple, Inc
Machine Learning Research Engineer Intern
Kotoba Technologies, Inc.
October 2023-
Present, Sendai
Research Assistant
Tohoku University
April 2023-
September 2023, Sendai
Teaching Assistant
Tohoku University
Information and data literacy
July 2022-
April 2023, Tokyo
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
ELYZA, Inc.
Jan 2020-
Present, Sendai
Machine Learning Software Engineer Intern
Adansons, Inc.
Working on data-centric AI platform products
Mentored two student interns from India
August 2022, Tokyo
Summer Intern
Nikkei
Publications (Refereed)
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- Hiroto Kurita*, Ikumi Ito*, Hiroaki Funayama, Shota Sasaki, Shoji Moriya, Ye Mengyu, Kazuma Kokuta, Ryujin Hatakeyama, Shusaku Sone and Kentaro Inui (*equal contributions). ”TohokuNLP at SemEval-2023 Task 5: Clickbait Spoiling via Simple Seq2seq Generation and Ensembling”. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2023), July 2023. [paper]
Publications (Non-refereed)
- 原 知正, 栗田 宙人, 横井 祥, 乾 健太郎. 平均プーリングによる文埋め込みの再検討:平均は点群の要約として十分か? 言語処理学会第30回年次大会, March 2024.
- 栗田 宙人, 小林 悟郎, 横井 祥, 乾 健太郎. 対照損失に基づく文エンコーダーは各単語をその情報利得で重み付ける. 第26回情報論的学習理論ワークショップ (IBIS), October–November 2023
- 栗田 宙人, 小林 悟郎, 横井 祥, 乾 健太郎. 対照学習に基づく文埋込は各単語をその情報利得で重み付ける. NLP若手の会 第18回シンポジウム (YANS), August 2023.
- 栗田 宙人, 小林 悟郎, 横井 祥, 乾 健太郎. BERTを用いた文埋め込みモデルによる単語の暗黙的な重み付け. 言語処理学会第29回年次大会, March 2023.
- 栗田宙人, 小林悟郎, 横井祥, 乾健太郎. BERTを用いた文埋め込みモデルによる単語の暗黙的な重み付け. 第17回NLP若手の会 シンポジウム (YANS), August 2022.
Awards
- Best Paper Nominee at SemEval, 2023
- 第17回NLP若手の会 シンポジウム (YANS) PKSHA Technology賞 / Sponsorship Award in the 17th YANS Symposium, 2022. (1/68=1.5%)
- 第17回NLP若手の会 シンポジウム (YANS) 奨励賞 / Encouragement Award in the 17th YANS Symposium, 2022. (10/68=14.7%)
- Nakatani RIES JP Fellow, 2020. (fully funded scholarship for research internship in the U.S., travel cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Talks
- Inner Workings of Text Embeddings. Kyoto University, Japan / MBZUAI, UAE, Feb 2024.
- Deep State Space Models 101 / Mamba. Kotoba Technologies Seminar Series, Jan 2024.
Misc.
- TOEFL iBT 98/120pts 2021
- TOEIC L&R 960/990pts 2021