Haiyue Song 宋海越
Haiyue Song is an LLM engineer at Preferred Networks. Previously, he worked at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from Kyoto University in 2024 advised by Prof. Sadao Kurohashi.
His current research focuses on large language models, including agent harness, long-context, reinforcement learning, and continual pre-training. Previously, he worked on machine translation, especially in low-resource, multilingual, and multimodal scenarios.
News
| Aug 20, 2026 | Three papers accepted to EMNLP 2026 (one Main, two Findings)! |
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| Oct 24, 2025 | Four papers accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025 (three Main, one System Demonstrations)! |
| Aug 19, 2025 | One paper accepted to EMNLP 2025 Findings! |
| May 31, 2025 | Organizing the English-Indic Language Document Translation Task at WAT 2025. |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Obtained a Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists! |
| Jan 31, 2025 | Serving as Website Chair for EMNLP 2025. |
| Jan 19, 2025 | Presented a tutorial at COLING 2025. |
Education
Kyoto University
Supervised by Prof. Sadao Kurohashi and Prof. Chenhui Chu.
- Ph.D. in Informatics, October 2020 - March 2024
- Master in Intelligence Science and Technology, October 2018 - September 2020
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Supervised by Prof. Li Jiang.
- Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, September 2014 - July 2018
- Minor in Japanese, School of Foreign Languages, February 2015 - July 2018
Nagoya University
- Exchange student in NUPACE program, October 2017 - February 2018
Work Experience
Preferred Networks
- Engineer, April 2026 - present
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- Technical researcher, July 2023 - March 2026
- Research internship, October 2019 - June 2023
JSPS
- Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), April 2021 - June 2023
Kyoto University
- Research assistant, November 2020 - March 2021
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- Internship, machine learning team, February 2019 - March 2019
Selected Publications
- LREC-COLING
NGLUEni: Benchmarking and Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Nguni LanguagesLREC-COLING 2024
Academic Service
- Website Chair: EMNLP 2025.
- Area Chair: ARR 2025, ARR 2026 March.
- Workshop Co-organizer: WAT 2024, and the English-Indic Language Document Translation Task at WAT 2025.
- Mentor: AACL 2020 Student Research Workshop.
- Award Selection Committee: ANLP (in Japan) 2026.
- Candidate for KAKENHI Review Committee Member 2026.
- Reviewer: JNLP 2026, EAMT 2026, TALLIP 2026, TASLP 2026, IEICE 2026, ARR 2026 May, ARR 2026 January, LREC 2026, IJCNLP-AACL 2025, WAT 2025, EMNLP 2025, ACL 2025, COLING 2025, NLPCC 2024, TASLP 2024, AMTA 2024, LREC-COLING 2024, four rounds of ARR 2024, TALLIP 2024, TASLP 2023, TALLIP 2023, ARR 2023, APSIPA ASC 2023, EMNLP 2023, ACL 2023, EMNLP 2022, EMNLP 2021, EMNLP 2020, IJCNLP 2020, WAT 2020, etc.
Grants
- KAKENHIImproving Large Language Models for Low-Resource Languages with Diverse Writing Systems2025Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists(若手研究), 2025 to 2026, KAKENHI 25K21290.
- KAKENHIMultilingual Corpus Construction and Domain Adaptation for Low-Resource Machine Translation2021JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1), 2021 to 2023, KAKENHI 22KJ1724.
Others
- Talk
- Talk
- TalkPresentation at the Kyoto University Symposium of the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology (AY2022)20222022年度 京都大学 情報学研究科 知能情報学専攻 シンポジウム
- TalkLecture at 知能情報学演習, Kyoto University2022
- PatentOne patent application in progress
Hobbies
Competitive Programming
- Silver medal at the National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI) 2013, Chengdu, China.
- Bronze medal at the Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad (APIO) 2013.
- AtCoder profile.
Japanese
- Passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1 (the highest level) in 2017.
Sports
- Ski (current focus). Ski Association of Japan (SAJ) Badge Test Level-2. This winter (26-27) my home ski resort will be Takasu Mountains.
- Marathon. Finisher of the full course of the Kyoto Marathon 2023 and the Biwako Marathon 2024.
- Mountain climbing. Mt. Shirouma, Mt. Kita, Mt. Yake, Mt. Fuji, etc.