About

Affiliation

Master's Program (2nd Year), Computer Science, Graduate School of System Design,
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Takama Laboratory

Research Interests

  • Agentic LLM
  • Mechanistic Interpretability
  • LLM for Recommendation

Work Experience

Apr 2025 – Present
SB Intuitions Corp. Research & Development (Internship)
Feb 2024 – Present
neoAI.Inc AI Engineer, Project Manager (Internship)
Sep 2024 (1 month)
Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development (Internship) Research on knowledge acquisition processes during continued pre-training of large language models
Aug 2024 (1 month)
LY Corporation AI Engineer (Internship) Development of Causal Language Model for search query intent classification
Feb 2023 - May 2024
Nuco.Inc Ltd. Machine Learning Engineer (Internship) Development of recommendation systems for push notification delivery of news for a major telecommunications carrier, etc.

Publications

International Conference

  • LIT-RAGBench: Benchmarking Generator Capabilities of Large Language Models in Retrieval-Augmented Generation LREC 2026
    Koki Itai, Shunichi Hasegawa, Yuta Yamamoto, Gouki Minegishi, Masaki Otsuki
    paper
  • Proposal of Modeling Personal Values Using Large Language Models for Extracting Mentions of Item Attributes and Evaluation Polarity from Review Texts TAAI 2024
    Koki Itai, Hiroki Shibata, Yasufumi Takama
    paper poster

Domestic Conference / Symposium

  • Automatic Synthesis of Japanese Multi-hop QA Dataset Based on Knowledge Graphs for Agentic RAG The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026)
    Koki Itai (TMU / SB Intuitions), Koji Matsuda, Shigehiko Fukuchi (SB Intuitions)
    paper poster
  • neoAI-InstructBench: A Japanese Composite Instruction-Following Benchmark Based on Practical Scenarios The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Natural Language Processing (NLP2026)
    Toshiki Kawamoto (neoAI), Koki Itai (neoAI / TMU), Masaki Otsuki (neoAI / UTokyo)
    paper poster
  • Construction of Generator Evaluation Benchmark for Japanese RAG The 265th Natural Language Processing Research Meeting
    Koki Itai, Shunichi Hasegawa, Yuta Yamamoto, Gouki Minegishi, Masaki Otsuki
    paper slide
  • Training Japanese Agentic RAG Model Based on Chain of Abstraction The 20th Natural Language Processing Symposium for Young Researchers
    Koki Itai, Masaya Ohagi, Akihiko Fukuchi
    poster movie
  • Proposal of Value Modeling from Review Text Using Large Language Models The 38th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
    Koki Itai, Hiroki Shibata, Yasufumi Takama
    paper

Education

Apr 2024 – Mar 2026
Graduate School of System Design, Information Science Domain, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Apr 2020 – Mar 2024
Faculty of System Design, Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Apr 2017 – Mar 2020
Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Science and Technology High School

Awards

2024
Tokyo Metropolitan University Outstanding Academic Performance Award (GPA: 3.66)
2023
Tokyo Metropolitan University Outstanding Academic Performance Award (GPA: 3.63)
2019
NICT Open House 2019 Student Encouragement Award (3rd Year High School, Research Theme: Object Recognition Model YOLO v3-based Climber Detection System and Efforts for Mountain Accident Prevention)

Others

Talks

Feb 2025
neoAI Meetup #1 event

Media

2025/07
Intel x neoAI Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator Adoption press release
2025/04
Aozora Bank x neoAI Finance-Specialized LLM Development press release
2024/10
Development of Llama 3 neoAI 8B Chat v0.1 press release
2023
Tokyo Metropolitan University Computer Science Introduction interview