Kentaro Nomura Receives the JSAI Annual Conference Award (JSAI 2026)

Kentaro Nomura of our lab has received the JSAI Annual Conference Award for his presentation at the 40th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI 2026, June 8–12, 2026, G-Messe Gunma and online).

Title: “Modeling Social Norm Formation and Creativity Based on Active Inference” (in Japanese)
Authors: Kentaro Nomura, Takato Horii

Using active inference as a unifying framework, this work computationally models how social norms are formed and maintained through interactions among agents, and how the same predictive processing gives rise to creative behavior as deviation from those norms. It was presented in the organized session “AI Alignment” on June 9, 2026 ([2I1-OS-49-01]).

Related work was also presented at the 2026 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2026 announcement). See the research page for details.

The list of award recipients is available on the JSAI Annual Conference Award page (in Japanese).