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Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Lab
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The lab studies the foundational technologies of AI that learns automatically from data.

AboutAbout the lab
Studying the foundations of how AI learns
The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Lab (the Jun Suzuki Lab, Failab) studies a wide range of foundational technologies used when machines (computers) learn automatically from data.
The keywords listed for its research field are language intelligence, generative AI, AI foundation models, learning systems, and deep learning.
The lab belongs to the Department of System Information Sciences, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, and was launched in April 2021.
Undergraduate students began joining the lab in April 2024.
Key terms
- generative AI
- Artificial intelligence that creates new content such as text and images.
- AI foundation model
- A large-scale AI model trained on vast amounts of data that can serve as a base for a variety of tasks.
- deep learning
- A machine learning method in which multilayer neural networks learn features from data.
NewsLab news
Announcement of the lab's relocation
Paper accepted at MRL 2026
Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2026
Co-authored "Introduction to Multimodal Models" (Gijutsu-Hyoron)
Paper accepted at LUHME2026
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies a wide range of foundational technologies used when machines (computers) learn automatically from data. Its research keywords are language intelligence, generative AI, AI foundation models, learning systems, and deep learning.
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The members of the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Lab consist of faculty, research fellows, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, technical assistants, and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- ProfessorJun Suzuki
- Associate ProfessorReina Akama
- Assistant ProfessorTianqi Wang
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