Ryo Kamoi

Ryo Kamoi

鴨井 遼 (ja)

Ph.D. Student

I am a first-year CS Ph.D. student at Penn State University advised by Dr. Rui Zhang. I received my master’s degree in CS from UT Austin where I was advised by Dr. Greg Durrett, and received my bachelor’s degree in Statistics from Keio University where I was advised by Dr. Kei Kobayashi.

  • Natural Language Generation
  • Evaluation and Error Detection of LMs
  • Interpretability and Explainability
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2023 -

    Penn State University

  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2020 - 2022

    University of Texas at Austin

  • B.E. in Statistics, 2016 - 2020

    Keio University

WiCE: Real-World Entailment for Claims in Wikipedia PDF Cite Dataset
(2023). EMNLP 2023.
DocMath-Eval: Evaluating Numerical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in Understanding Long Documents with Tabular Data PDF Cite
(2024). NAACL 2024.
Fair Abstractive Summarization of Diverse Perspectives PDF Cite
(2024). NAACL 2024.

Out-of-Distribution Detection (Computer Vision)

Efficient Unknown Object Detection with Discrepancy Networks for Semantic Segmentation PDF Cite
(2021). NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving.
Out-of-Distribution Detection with Likelihoods Assigned by Deep Generative Models Using Multimodal Prior Distributions PDF Cite
(2020). The AAAI’s Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety.
Why is the Mahalanobis Distance Effective for Anomaly Detection? PDF Cite
(2020). arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.00402.

Others

Alternative methods for fast and stable GAN Cite
(2020). MIRU.

Work Experience

Amazon - Applied Scientist Internship Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 Cambridge, U.K.
Research in Quality Evaluation of Alexa
SenseTime Japan - Research Internship Feb 2020 – Jan 2021 Tokyo, Japan
Research in Obstacle Detection for Autonomous Driving Systems
Datasection - Research Internship May 2017 – Aug 2018 Tokyo, Japan
Research in Natural Language Generation with Small Training Data

Services

NLP Colloquium (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