Focused Prefix Tuning for Controllable Text Generation. - Congda Ma; Tianyu Zhao 001; Makoto Shing; Kei Sawada; Manabu Okumura (ACL (2), 2023)

Text-Guided Scene Sketch-to-Photo Synthesis. - AprilPyone MaungMaung; Makoto Shing; Kentaro Mitsui; Kei Sawada; Fumio Okura (CoRR, 2023)

Release of Pre-Trained Models for the Japanese Language. - Kei Sawada; Tianyu Zhao 001; Makoto Shing; Kentaro Mitsui; Akio Kaga; Yukiya Hono; Toshiaki Wakatsuki; Koh Mitsuda (LREC/COLING, 2024)

Local Curvature Smoothing with Stein's Identity for Efficient Score Matching. - Genki Osada; Makoto Shing; Takashi Nishide (NeurIPS, 2024)

TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models. - Makoto Shing; Kou Misaki; Han Bao; Sho Yokoi; Takuya Akiba (ICLR, 2025)

Evolutionary optimization of model merging recipes. - Takuya Akiba; Makoto Shing; Yujin Tang; Qi Sun; David Ha (Nat. Mac. Intell., 2025)

DiffusionBlocks: Blockwise Training for Generative Models via Score-Based Diffusion. - Makoto Shing; Takuya Akiba (CoRR, 2025)