Members

C02: Symbol Emergence Systems for Qualia Structures

Members

Principal Investigator:Tadahiro Taniguchi
Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics,  Professor
Co-Investigator: Noburo Saji
Waseda University, School of Human Sciences, Associate Professor
Naoto Yoshida
Kyoto University, Project-Specific Researcher
Research on symbol emergence and qualia structure by autonomous agent with internal motivations

Twitter (X): @movingsloth

Akira Taniguchi
Kyushu Institute of Technology,  Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Associate Professor
Research on Spatial Cognition and Symbol Emergence in Robots

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Nguyen Le Hoang
Kyoto University, Project-Specific Researcher

Research on compositionality and generalization in emergent languages using the deep generative models and Metropolis-Hastings naming game

Mail: nguyen.lehoang.4a【at】kyoto-u.ac.jp *Please replace [at] with @.
Ryosuke Yamaki
Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering Ph.D. student

Research on structuring multimodal information by fusing syntactic parsing and real-world information

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Takafumi Horie
Kyoto University, Ph.D. student

Simulation of language evolution through communication using probabilistic generative models

Mail: horie.takafumi.23p 【at】st.kyoto-u.ac.jp *Please replace [at] with @.

Tianwei Fang 
Kyoto University, Ph.D. student
Co-creative learning of emotion qualia in human-machine systems

Mail: fang.tianwei.37x 【at】st.kyoto-u.ac.jp * Please replace 【at】 with @.
Mikako Ochiai
Kyoto University, Master student
Structural Analysis of Internal Representations in Vision Language Models

Mail: ochiai.mikako.36x【at】st.kyoto-u.ac.jp * Please replace 【at】 with @.


Alumni

2025
Zehang Zhang
Co-construction of emotion qualia and symbol emergence based on collective predictive cording
2024Yuta Matsui
Research on the compositionality of language in symbol emergence with large language models
2023Jun Inukai
Research on symbol emergence by multi-agents

Ryota Okumura
Co-creative learning in human-machine systems based on joint attention naming games