| Aug 2026 | Takagi will give an invited lecture at the Neuro2026 citizen participation event and symposium. |
| Apr 2026 | Our paper on interpreting brain activity using large language models (paper) has been accepted to ICLR 2026. |
| Feb 2026 | Our laboratory’s research was featured in Nikkei Science (February 2026 issue), with Takagi contributing through an interview. |
| Jan 2026 | Takagi will give an invited talk at the “Physical AI” event hosted by Accenture and Kyoto University. |
| Jan 2026 | Takagi has been selected as the principal investigator for JST BOOST. |
| Jan 2026 | Takagi has been selected as a principal investigator for a JST BOOST project. |
| Dec 2025 | Research from our laboratory was covered by the German daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel on December 31, 2025. (URL)。 |
| Dec 2025 | Our laboratory’s research was featured in the Chunichi Shimbun (morning edition, December 19, 2025, Page 3, Social Affairs section). |
| Dec 2025 | Takagi will give an invited talk at the 39th Optical Communication Systems Symposium. |
| Dec 2025 | A paper exploring the correspondence between deep learning models and human brain activity in response to music has been published in Nature Communications URL. This study was conducted in collaboration with Google DeepMind and was featured in Google Research’s official YouTube series, Field Notes URL. |
| Nov 2025 | A paper exploring the correspondence between deep learning models and human brain activity in response to multimodal stimuli has been published in Nature Communications URL. This paper has also been selected as an Editor’s Highlight by the editorial team of Nature Communications URL. |
| Nov 2025 | Two papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2025, a top-tier conference in natural language processing. A paper on the principles underlying supervised fine-tuning (SFT) arXiv, has been accepted to the Main Conference. Another paper on the learning dynamics of large language models using sparse autoencoders arXiv has been accepted to the Findings track. |
| Nov 2025 | Takagi will give an invited talk at the 15th CiNet Symposium. |
| Nov 2025 | Takagi will give a tutorial (on the first day) and an invited talk at the Neuro-LLM Workshop at the International Conference on Neural Information Processing 2025 (ICONIP 2025). |
| Oct 2025 | Takagi will give an invited talk at the 2nd Online Seminar of the Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan. |
| Oct 2025 | Takagi has been selected as a principal co-investigator for a JST CREST project (Principal Investigator: Prof. Nishida, Osaka University). |
| Sep 2025 | Takagi will give an invited talk at the 2025 JNNS Special Interest Workshop “Emergent Structures of Knowledge Representation through the Unification of Information Representations.” |
| Jul 2025 | Takagi will give an invited talk at the Asia-Pacific Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Conference (AP-CCN 2025). |
| Jun 2025 | Takagi will give an invited lecture at the OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2025. |
| Jun 2025 | We have released two preprints: one that comprehensively investigates the effects of supervised fine-tuning on LLMs arXiv, and another that examines the impact of internal language representations arXiv. |
| May 2025 | An interview with Takagi was published in MIT Technology Review. |
| Apr 2025 | The laboratory was established. |
| Mar 2025 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the 24th “Brain and Mind Mechanisms” Workshop. |
| Mar 2025 | Five papers were presented at NLP 2025, one of which received the Young Researcher Encouragement Award. |
| Mar 2025 | We have released a preprint on phase transitions in large language models (LLMs). |
| Feb 2025 | Takagi gave an invited lecture at the Department of Mathematical Engineering, The University of Tokyo. |
| Feb 2025 | We released a preprint on brain voxel interpretation using large language models (LLMs). |
| Nov 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the Consortium for Applied Neuroscience. |
| Oct 2024 | Takagi delivered an invited lecture in “Special Lecture on Media Content II” at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (EEIC), the University of Tokyo. |
| Sep 2024 | Takagi was awarded a JSPS KAKENHI Grant for “International Joint Research Enhancement” (Principal Investigator: Nishida, NICT). |
| Sep 2024 | Takagi gave an invited presentation at the NLP Young Researchers Association (YANS). |
| Sep 2024 | A paper on large language models and the human brain was accepted to EMNLP 2024 (long paper, main conference). |
| Jul 2024 | Takagi co-authored Chapter 10 of the textbook “Computational and Network Modeling of Neuroimaging Data” with Nishimoto (Osaka University). |
| Jun 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the 22nd VERSUS Multimodality Symposium. |
| Jun 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the FBS Seminar, Osaka University. |
| May 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the Young Researchers’ Meeting in Evolutionary Biology. |
| May 2024 | Takagi’s research was featured on NHK’s television program Science ZERO. |
| Apr 2024 | Takagi was awarded a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) as the principal investigator. |
| Apr 2024 | Takagi has been awarded a KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (Principal Investigator: Imaizumi, The University of Tokyo). |
| Mar 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at Huawei Japan. |
| Mar 2024 | Takagi received the Telecom Interdisciplinary Research Award from the Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, through a collaborative study with Prof. Nishimoto (Osaka University). |
| Feb 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the Osaka International Science Club. |
| Feb 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at CiNet Conference 2024. |
| Feb 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the AAAI 2024 Workshop on Brain Encoding and Decoding. |
| Jan 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry. |
| Jan 2024 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the L-INSIGHT Career Program, Kyoto University. |
| Jan 2024 | Takagi’s comments were featured in Discover Magazine (U.S.). |
| Dec 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the 1st Japan–Korea AI Workshop. |
| Nov 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the Consortium for Applied Neuroscience. |
| Nov 2023 | Takagi’s research was featured on the Nippon Television program Kazlaser to Manabu. |
| Oct 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at Science SARU. |
| Oct 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the Vision Science Forum. |
| Oct 2023 | Takagi received an Osaka University Award. |
| Sep 2023 | Takagi received the Best Presentation Award at the 12th CREST Research Area Meeting. |
| Aug 2023 | Takagi was interviewed by TV3 Catalunya. |
| Aug 2023 | Takagi was interviewed by Deutschlandradio (Germany). |
| Aug 2023 | Takagi’s comments were featured in The New York Times. |
| Aug 2023 | A collaborative project with Google (Brain2Music) was featured by more than 40 media outlets worldwide. |
| Aug 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at Sony Interactive Entertainment. |
| Jul 2023 | Takagi was interviewed by ABEMA TV regarding a collaborative project with Google. |
| Jul 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the BRAINTECH CONSORTIUM. |
| Jul 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the NLP Colloquium. |
| Jul 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at MIRU 2023. |
| Jun 2023 | Takagi’s research was featured on the TBS program Information 7days News Caster. |
| May 2023 | Takagi gave an invited talk at the NLP Group, Tohoku University. |
| May 2023 | Takagi gave an invited online talk at the Donders Institute. |
| Mar 2023 | Takagi’s research on the correspondence between image-generative AI and human brain activity was featured by more than 60 media outlets, including Science and Scientific American. |