Ryo Kamoi

Ryo Kamoi

鴨井 遼 (ja)

Ryo Kamoi is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Penn State University advised by Dr. Rui Zhang. He received his master’s degree in CS from UT Austin where he was advised by Dr. Greg Durrett, and received his bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Keio University where he was advised by Dr. Kei Kobayashi. He interned at Amazon with the Alexa team.

He is broadly interested in Natural Language Processing, especially focusing on:

Selected publications. For the full list, please see Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar

VisOnlyQA: Large Vision Language Models Still Struggle with Visual Perception of Geometric Information PDF Cite Dataset Website
(2024). arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.00947.
When Can LLMs Actually Correct Their Own Mistakes? A Critical Survey of Self-Correction of LLMs PDF Cite Video Slides Paper List
(2024). TACL 2024. Oral at EMNLP 2024.
Evaluating LLMs at Detecting Errors in LLM Responses PDF Cite Code Dataset Poster
(2024). COLM 2024.
WiCE: Real-World Entailment for Claims in Wikipedia PDF Cite Dataset Slides
(2023). EMNLP 2023. Oral.
Why is the Mahalanobis Distance Effective for Anomaly Detection? PDF Cite
(2020). arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00402.

Education

Penn State University — Ph.D. Student in Computer Science Aug 2023 – Present State College, PA
PhD Advisor: Rui Zhang
University of Texas at Austin — M.S. in Computer Science Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 Austin, TX
Advisor: Greg Durrett, Mentor: Tanya Goyal
Keio University — B.E. in Statistics Apr 2016 – Mar 2020 Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Kei Kobayashi, Keio Engineering Foundation Award (Top student in the Department of Mathematics)

Work Experience

Amazon, Alexa Team — Applied Scientist Internship Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 Cambridge, U.K.
Research on the quality evaluation of Alexa

Services

NLP Colloquium JP (NLPコロキウム) — Staff Mar 2024 – Present

Awards

Scholarship for alumni of Keio University to pursue degrees at overseas graduate schools
Graduation with highest honors - First place in the Department of Mathematics at Keio University

Media Mentions

Interview about our survey paper on LLM self-correction.

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