Kazuki Yano
Ph.D. student @ Tohoku NLP Group.
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in Information Science at Fundamental AI lab (member of Tohoku NLP Group) at Tohoku University, advised by Prof. Jun Suzuki. I am also a Research Fellow in the JST BOOST Program.
My research focuses on pre-training large language models and building efficient multimodal LLMs, with an interest in how training recipes shape model capability and scalability. In summer 2026, I will work as an Amazon Japan Science Fellow on AI agents.
yano.kazuki [at] dc.tohoku.ac.jp
News
| June 2026 | I will start as an Amazon Japan Science Fellow, working on AI agents. |
| June 2026 | My first author paper "Multimodal Depth Up-scaling" accepted at INTERSPEECH 2026. |
| Jan 2026 | My first author paper "WSO" accepted at ICLR 2026. |
| Jan 2026 | Two papers accepted at EACL 2026. |
| Oct 2025 | Two papers including my first author paper accepted at COLM 2025. |
| Apr 2025 | My first author paper "STEP" accepted at NAACL 2025. |