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most citedLLM-jp: A Cross-organizational Project for the Research and Development of Fully Open Japanese LLMs

5 citations · 5 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Harbor Adapters and Harbor-Index: Infrastructure and a Curated Meta-Dataset for Large-Scale Agentic Evaluation

Lin Shi, Haowei Lin, Zixuan Zhu +123

Evaluating agents on the growing number of agentic benchmarks is challenging because they often require complex environments and agent integrations. We introduce Harbor Adapters, a…

cs.AI2026

CoffeeBench: Benchmarking Long-Horizon LLM Agents in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Economies

Issa Sugiura, Daichi Hattori, Kazuo Araragi +5

As LLM agents become capable of increasingly long-horizon tasks, evaluating their performance in economic systems is becoming increasingly important. Unlike existing benchmarks tha…

cs.CV2026

HakushoBench: A Japanese Chart and Table VQA Benchmark from Governmental White Papers

Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda +1

Understanding chart and table images is essential for applying vision-language models (VLMs) to real-world document understanding. While English benchmarks have advanced rapidly, n…

cs.CV2026

JAMMEval: A Refined Collection of Japanese Benchmarks for Reliable VLM Evaluation

Issa Sugiura, Koki Maeda, Shuhei Kurita +3

Reliable evaluation is essential for the development of vision-language models (VLMs). However, Japanese VQA benchmarks have undergone far less iterative refinement than their Engl…

cs.CV2026

Jagle: Building a Large-Scale Japanese Multimodal Post-Training Dataset for Vision-Language Models

Issa Sugiura, Keito Sasagawa, Keisuke Nakao +8

Developing vision-language models (VLMs) that generalize across diverse tasks requires large-scale training datasets with diverse content. In English, such datasets are typically c…

cs.CV2025

WAON: A Large-Scale Japanese Image-Text Dataset for Cultural Adaptation in Contrastive Vision-Language Models

Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda +3

Contrastive vision-language models have achieved remarkable progress through large-scale pretraining. Recent work has shown that removing English-only caption filters and pretraini…

cs.CL2025

Llama-Mimi: Exploring the Limits of Flattened Speech Language Modeling

Issa Sugiura, Shuhei Kurita, Yusuke Oda +1

Speech Language Models (SpeechLMs) model tokenized speech to capture both semantic and acoustic information. When neural audio codecs based on Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ) ar…

q-fin.ST2025

EDINET-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Complex Financial Tasks using Japanese Financial Statements

Issa Sugiura, Takashi Ishida, Taro Makino +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress, surpassing human performance on several benchmarks in domains such as mathematics and coding. A key driver of this progr…

cs.CL2025

llm-jp-modernbert: A ModernBERT Model Trained on a Large-Scale Japanese Corpus with Long Context Length

Issa Sugiura, Kouta Nakayama, Yusuke Oda

Encoder-only transformer models like BERT are widely adopted as a pre-trained backbone for tasks like sentence classification and retrieval. However, pretraining of encoder models…

cs.CL2024

Constructing Multimodal Datasets from Scratch for Rapid Development of a Japanese Visual Language Model

Keito Sasagawa, Koki Maeda, Issa Sugiura +3

To develop high-performing Visual Language Models (VLMs), it is essential to prepare multimodal resources, such as image-text pairs, interleaved data, and instruction data. While m…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

LLM-jp: A Cross-organizational Project for the Research and Development of Fully Open Japanese LLMs

LLM-jp, :, Akiko Aizawa +80

This paper introduces LLM-jp, a cross-organizational project for the research and development of Japanese large language models (LLMs). LLM-jp aims to develop open-source and stron…