{"id":906,"date":"2024-09-03T17:59:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T08:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/?p=906"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T09:01:44","slug":"20240903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/en\/2024\/09\/03\/20240903\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Pang Wei Koh of the University of Washington Visits the University of Tsukuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 3, 2024, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR) at the University of Tsukuba hosted a research exchange meeting with Dr. Pang Wei Koh, Assistant Professor at the Allen School, University of Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-870\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3128399989065362;width:567px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-vk-blocks-spacer vk_spacer vk_spacer-type-margin-top\"><div class=\"vk_block-margin-sm--margin-top\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his invited talk, &#8220;Reliable data use: Synthesis, retrieval, and interaction,&#8221; Dr. Koh discussed training on synthetic data produced by generative models, the effect of scaling up the datastore in retrieval-based language models, and the problems that static training data creates in interactive settings. He presented a perspective in which the volume of data used at inference time is treated as a new axis for scaling language models.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-e1788512102796.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-869\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5014850711270908;width:329px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-e1788512102796.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-e1788512102796-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/content\/uploads\/sites\/114\/2026\/09\/20240903-e1788512102796-768x585.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>In the afternoon, seven presentations were given by researchers from the University of Tsukuba, leading to wide-ranging discussion on topics including error analysis under data bias, privacy-preserving federated analysis of data across medical institutions, spectral methods for dimensionality reduction and clustering, and the geometry of subspaces and its applications in machine learning. The meeting closed successfully with a laboratory tour of Research and Development Center for Digital Nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 3, 2024, the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR) at the University of Tsukuba hos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/?p=904","sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","header_top_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","en-US"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"lightning_design_setting_object":{"layout":"","hidden_page_header":"","hidden_breadcrumb":"","siteContent_padding":"","header_trans":"","section_base":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpai.air.tsukuba.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}