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So Kuroki is a research engineer at Sakana AI, focusing on developing LLM agents and enhancing their skill acquisition. He was working in robot learning at OMRON SINIC X and in Yutaka Matsuo's Lab at The University of Tokyo. When he was a student, he had the great opportunity to be mentored by Shixiang Shane Gu and Yujin Tang, Google Brain Team. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Tokyo.
His research interests and experiences strongly align with collective Intelligence (robotics, learning) and AI collaboration with humans (HCI). He loves to see agents become smarter by interacting and sharing their knowledge, and in the same context, he loves to see AI empower humans through collaboration.
10/2025, Two papers, Kame and Shachi, are published on arXiv.
9/2025, Our paper, Wider or Deeper?, is accepted by NeurIPS 2025 (spotlight).
1/2025, Our paper, CycleQD, is accepted by ICLR 2025.
6/2024, Our two papers are accepted by IROS 2024.
4/2024, I start working at Sakana AI.
1/2024, Our papers are accepted by ICRA 2024 and CHI 2024.
KAME: Tandem Architecture for Enhancing Knowledge in Real-Time Speech-to-Speech Conversational AI
So Kuroki, Yotaro Kubo, Takuya Akiba, Yujin Tang
Reimagining Agent-based Modeling with Large Language Model Agents via Shachi
So Kuroki, Yingtao Tian, Kou Misaki, Takashi Ikegami, Takuya Akiba, Yujin Tang
Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search
Yuichi Inoue, Kou Misaki, Yuki Imajuku, So Kuroki, Taishi Nakamura, Takuya Akiba
NeurIPS 2025 (spotlight)
Multi-Agent Behavior Retrieval: Retrieval-Augmented Policy Training for Cooperative Push Manipulation by Mobile Robots
So Kuroki, Mai Nishimura, Tadashi Kozuno
IROS 2024
Project page / arXiv / paper / video
Language-Guided Pattern Formation for Swarm Robotics with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Hsu-Shen Liu, So Kuroki, Tadashi Kozuno, Wei-Fang Sun, Chun-Yi Lee
IROS 2024
Project page / paper / video
GenDOM: Generalizable One-shot Deformable Ojbect Manipulation with Parameter-Aware Policy
So Kuroki, Jiaxian Guo, Tatsuya Matsushima, Takuya Okubo, Masato Kobayashi, Yuya Ikeda, Ryosuke Takanami, Paul Yoo, Yutaka Matsuo, Yusuke Iwasawa
ICRA 2024
Project page / arXiv / github / paper / video
Immersive Real World through Deep Billboards
Naruya Kondo, So Kuroki, Ryosuke Hyakuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu, Yoichi Ochiai
SIGGRAPH 2022 Immersive Pavilion
Project page / arXiv / github / paper
2D Rendering-based Pseudo 3D Models for Immersive VR Experiments
Naruya Kondo, So Kuroki, Ryosuke Hyakuta, Yutaka Matsuo, Shixiang Shane Gu, Yoichi Ochiai
The 36th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 2022
paper (Japanese)
Shape evaluation of activated sludge flocs under different operating conditions through quantitative image analysis
Hakoshima Suguru, So Kuroki, Tobino Tomohiro, Nakajima Fumiyuki
Excellent Poster Award at The 55nd Japan Society on Water Environment, 3/2021.
Lite 6 teleoperation
DYNAMIXEL
2025 New Year holiday project (Hobby) - half-day
Reference: GELLO (https://wuphilipp.github.io/gello_site/)
Drone creation from scratch
Microcontroller programming (Arduino Nano) / PID / Frame design / 3D printer / Receiver+controller /
Project page / gitHub, Blog (in Japanese)
2024 New year holiday project (Hobby) - 10 days
"cut the left side of the tofu"
Language-conditioned manipulation with xArm
Encode language commands with CLIP / xArm ROS control / teleoperated data collection / behavior cloning
A Language command "cut the left side of the tofu" control the left figure xArm.
2024 spring - This turns out to be GenDOM (ICRA 2024)
Differentiable robot arm - lifting a object
Lifting up the block with the particle robot.
Based on DiffTaichi
Optimizing the properties of the muscles
try optimizing the controller, shape, and muscle
Based on Evolution gym
Water Pipe Facility Ledger and Deterioration Diagnosis Business in Asago
@Fracta (intern from 6/2020-6/2021)
supported by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
Published information (in Japanese)
9/2021 - 2/2022, French government-funded scholarships, Bourses du Gouvernement Français (About 6 recipients per year).
Reviewer for IROS 2024
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
Reviewer for ICRA 2024
Reviewer for NeurIPS 2024 (workshop papers)
Reviewer for NeurIPS 2025 (workshop papers)