--- title: "Ken Yano — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ken Yano, Artificial Intelligence Research Center: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ken-yano/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ken-yano/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ken Yano # Ken Yano Ken Yano has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/); often with [Hiroya Takamura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroya-takamura/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5069193300) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-0635) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88270159) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5069193300) · [24 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069193300) · [43 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069193300&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ken-yano/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13709](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/138/#star-13709) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Ken+Yano) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ken+Yano) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ken+Yano) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ken+Yano) ## Affiliations [🔬**National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology** Tsukuba · Japan 2023–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/national-institute-of-advanced-industrial-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**Artificial Intelligence Research Center** Tokyo · Japan 2023–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/artificial-intelligence-research-center/) · [🎓**Nara Institute of Science and Technology** Ikoma · Japan 2017–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nara-institute-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**University of Electro-Communications** Tokyo · Japan 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02x73b849) · [🔬**Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International** Kyoto · Japan 2015–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/advanced-telecommunications-research-institute-international/) · [🎓**Fukuoka University** Fukuoka · Japan 2012 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04nt8b154) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ken-yano/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Assessing the Belief Consistency of Large Language Models on the Logical Conversation Process](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsujimura-2026-assessing-belief-consistency-large-language/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether an LLM's hidden preference stays logically coherent as a conversation grows. This matters if generated reasoning is to be read as a faithful trace of the model's state. Existing consistency benchmarks rely on questions with correct answers, so task skill confounds the measurement. 2. **[Treating Decoder-Only LLMs as Encoders: A Simple and Effective Fine-tuning Approach for Named Entity Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yano-2026-treating-decoder-only-llms-as/)** *(2026)* Decoder-only LLMs are trained with causal masking, so each token's representation sees only what comes before it. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hiroya Takamura](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hiroya-takamura/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [BioNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/): [BioNLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/2026/) Updated 2 November 2026