I am a research scientist at NVIDIA Research Taiwan. I obtained my Ph.D. in computer science from Osaka University in Japan, under the supervision of Prof. Yuta Nakashima and Prof. Noa Garcia.
My research focuses on fairness in multi-modal tasks, particularly on identifying societal biases in datasets and models (CVPR'22, FAccT'22, CVPR'23, CVPR'24, EMNLP'24), and developing effective mitigation strategies (CVPR'23, EMNLP'24, ICLR'25).
I’m always happy to collaborate—please feel free to reach out!
[04/2025] I became a research scientist at NVIDIA Research Taiwan.
[01/2025] A paper accepted at ICLR 2025.
[09/2024] Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2024 (main track).
[03/2024] A paper accepted at CVPR 2024.
[12/2023] Started an internship at NVIDIA Research.
[04/2023] Started an internship at Sony AI.
[03/2023] Our paper "Uncurated Image-Text Datasets: Shedding Light on Demographic Bias" has been selected as a highlight at CVPR 2023.
[02/2023] Two papers accepted at CVPR 2023.
[04/2022] A paper accepted at ACM FAccT 2022.
[03/2022] A paper accepted at CVPR 2022 as an oral.
[07/2021] A paper accepted at ICCV CLVL 2021.
Papers
SANER: Annotation-free Societal Attribute Neutralizer for Debiasing CLIP
Yusuke Hirota, Min-Hung Chen, Chien-Yi Wang, Yuta Nakashima, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Ryo Hachiuma
ICLR 2025
Resampled Datasets Are Not Enough: Mitigating Societal Bias Beyond Single Attributes
Yusuke Hirota, Jerone T. A. Andrews, Dora Zhao, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Apostolos Modas, Yuta Nakashima, Alice Xiang
EMNLP 2024 (main track)
From Descriptive Richness to Bias: Unveiling the Dark Side of Generative Image Caption Enrichment
Yusuke Hirota, Ryo Hachiuma, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Yuta Nakashima
EMNLP 2024 (main track)
Would Deep Generative Models Amplify Bias in Future Models?
Tianwei Chen, Yusuke Hirota, Mayu Otani, Noa Garcia, Yuta Nakashima
CVPR 2024
Model-Agnostic Gender Debiased Image Captioning
Yusuke Hirota, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia
CVPR 2023
Uncurated Image-Text Datasets: Shedding Light on Demographic Bias
Noa Garcia, Yusuke Hirota, Yankun Wu, Yuta Nakashima
CVPR 2023, Highlight
Quantifying Societal Bias Amplification in Image Captioning
Yusuke Hirota, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia
CVPR 2022, Oral
Gender and Racial Bias in Visual Question Answering Datasets
Yusuke Hirota, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia
ACM FAccT 2022
Visual Question Answering with Textual Representations for Images
Yusuke Hirota, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye
ICCV CLVL 2021
Apr. 2022 ~ Mar. 2025 Ph.D. School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan.
Apr. 2020 ~ Mar. 2022 M.S. School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan.
Apr. 2016 ~ Mar. 2020 B.S. School of Engineering, Osaka University, Japan.
Apr. 2025 ~ Present NVIDIA Research, Research scientist.
Dec. 2023 ~ Feb. 2025 NVIDIA Research, Remote internship.
Apr. 2023 ~ Sep. 2023 Sony AI (AI Ethics Team), Remote internship.
Apr. 2022 ~ Mar. 2025 Research Assistant, Osaka University, Japan.
Conferences: CVPR ('23 ~), ICCV ('23~), ECCV'24
Journals: IEEE TPAMI
Programming Languages: Python
Software: Pytorch, Docker, Git, Latex
Languages: English (intermediate), Japanese (native)
Email: yusukeh [at] nvidia [dot] com