Updated on 2026/04/28

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NOMURA MASAHIRO
 
Organization
School of Computing Assistant Professor
Title
Assistant Professor
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Degree

  • Doctor of Engineering ( 2025.3   Institute of Science Tokyo )

  • Master of Engineering ( 2017.3   Tokyo Institute of Technology )

  • Bachelor of Engineering ( 2015.3   Nagoya Institute of Technology )

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning

  • Evolutionary Computation

  • Optimization

Research Areas

  • Informatics / Soft computing

  • Informatics / Intelligent informatics

Education

  • Institute of Science Tokyo   School of Computing   Department of Computer Science

    2019.4 - 2025.3

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    Country: Japan

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  • Tokyo Institute of Technology

    2015.4 - 2017.3

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  • Nagoya Institute of Technology

    2011.4 - 2015.3

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    Country: Japan

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Research History

  • Institute of Science Tokyo   School of Computing, Department of Computer Science   Assistant Professor

    2025.4

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    Country:Japan

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  • 産業技術総合研究所   特定集中研究専門員

    2019.7 - 2020.2

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  • 株式会社サイバーエージェント   AI Lab   リサーチサイエンティスト

    2018.6 - 2025.3

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  • 株式会社サイバーエージェント   アドテク本部   エンジニア

    2017.4 - 2018.5

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Papers

  • CatCMA with Margin: Stochastic Optimization for Continuous, Integer, and Categorical Variables Reviewed

    Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2025)   737 - 745   2025.7

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  • Multi-start Optimization Method via Scalarization based on Target Point-based Tchebycheff Distance for Multi-objective Optimization Reviewed

    Kota Nagakane, Masahiro Nomura, Isao Ono

    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2025)   1 - 9   2025.6

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  • A Memetic Algorithm based on Variational Autoencoder for Black-Box Discrete Optimization with Epistasis among Parameters Reviewed

    Aoi Kato, Kenta Kojima, Masahiro Nomura, Isao Ono

    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2025)   1 - 4   2025.6

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  • Instance-wise Supervision-level Optimization in Active Learning Reviewed

    Shinnosuke Matsuo, Riku Togashi, Ryoma Bise, Seiichi Uchida, Masahiro Nomura

    IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025)   4939 - 4947   2025.6

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  • CMA-ES with Learning Rate Adaptation Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Youhei Akimoto, Isao Ono

    ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization   5 ( 6 )   1 - 28   2025.3

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  • Effective Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning in Contextual Combinatorial Bandits Reviewed International coauthorship

    18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems   733 - 741   2024.10

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    DOI: 10.1145/3640457.3688099

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  • CMA-ES for Discrete and Mixed-Variable Optimization on Sets of Points Reviewed

    Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito, Shinichi Shirakawa

    International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2024)   236 - 251   2024.9

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  • Natural Gradient Interpretation of Rank-One Update in CMA-ES Reviewed

    Ryoki Hamano, Shinichi Shirakawa, Masahiro Nomura

    International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2024)   252 - 267   2024.9

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  • Hyperparameter Optimization Can Even be Harmful in Off-Policy Learning and How to Deal with It Reviewed International coauthorship

    Yuta Saito, Masahiro Nomura

    Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024)   4860 - 4867   2024.8

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  • CatCMA: Stochastic Optimization for Mixed-Category Problems Reviewed

    Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024)   656 - 664   2024.7

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  • CMA-ES for Safe Optimization Reviewed

    Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito, Shinichi Shirakawa

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2024)   722 - 730   2024.7

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  • Marginal Probability-Based Integer Handling for CMA-ES Tackling Single- and Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Black-Box Optimization Reviewed

    Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura, Shinichi Shirakawa

    ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization   4 ( 10 )   1 - 26   2024.6

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  • Off-Policy Evaluation of Slate Bandit Policies via Optimizing Abstraction Reviewed International coauthorship

    Haruka Kiyohara, Masahiro Nomura, Yuta Saito

    Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference (WebConf 2024)   3150 - 3161   2024.5

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  • Towards Practical Preferential Bayesian Optimization with Skew Gaussian Processes Reviewed

    Shion Takeno, Masahiro Nomura, Masayuki Karasuyama

    Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)   33516 - 33533   2023.7

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  • (1+1)-CMA-ES with Margin for Discrete and Mixed-Integer Problems Reviewed

    Yohei Watanabe, Kento Uchida, Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura, Shinichi Shirakawa

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2023)   882 - 890   2023.7

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  • CMA-ES with Learning Rate Adaptation: Can CMA-ES with Default Population Size Solve Multimodal and Noisy Problems? Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Youhei Akimoto, Isao Ono

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2023)   839 - 847   2023.7

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  • Towards Resolving Propensity Contradiction in Offline Recommender Learning Reviewed International coauthorship

    Yuta Saito, Masahiro Nomura

    Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2022)   2211 - 2217   2022.7

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  • CMA-ES with Margin: Lower-Bounding Marginal Probability for Mixed-Integer Black-Box Optimization Reviewed

    Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura, Shinichi Shirakawa

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2022)   639 - 647   2022.7

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  • Benchmarking CMA-ES with Margin on the bbob-mixint Testbed Reviewed

    Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura, Shinichi Shirakawa

    Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO Companion 2022)   1708 - 1716   2022.7

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  • Fast Moving Natural Evolution Strategy for High-Dimensional Problems Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Isao Ono

    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2022)   1 - 8   2022.7

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  • Towards a Principled Learning Rate Adaptation for Natural Evolution Strategies Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Isao Ono

    International Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (Part of EvoStar 2022)   721 - 737   2022.4

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  • Multiobjective Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator Reviewed

    Yoshihiko Ozaki, Yuki Tanigaki, Shuhei Watanabe, Masahiro Nomura, Masaki Onishi

    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)   73   1209 - 1250   2022.4

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  • Natural Evolution Strategy for Unconstrained and Implicitly Constrained Problems with Ridge Structure Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Isao Ono

    IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2021)   1 - 7   2022.1

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  • Efficient Hyperparameter Optimization under Multi-Source Covariate Shift Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Yuta Saito

    Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021)   1376 - 1385   2021.10

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  • Distance-weighted Exponential Natural Evolution Strategy for Implicitly Constrained Black-Box Function Optimization Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Nobuyuki Sakai, Nobusumi Fukushima, Isao Ono

    IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2021)   1099 - 1106   2021.8

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  • Evaluating Initialization of Nelder-Mead Method for Hyperparameter Optimization in Deep Learning Reviewed

    Shintaro Takenaga, Shuhei Watanabe, Masahiro Nomura, Yoshihiko Ozaki, Masaki Onishi, Hitoshi Habe

    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020)   3372 - 3379   2021.5

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  • Warm Starting CMA-ES for Hyperparameter Optimization Reviewed

    Masahiro Nomura, Shuhei Watanabe, Youhei Akimoto, Yoshihiko Ozaki, Masaki Onishi

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)   9188 - 9196   2021.2

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  • 機械学習におけるハイパパラメータ最適化手法:概要と特徴 Reviewed

    尾崎嘉彦, 野村将寛, 大西正輝

    電子情報通信学会論文誌D   J103-D ( 9 )   615 - 631   2020.9

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Awards

  • 手島精一記念研究賞 博士論文賞

    2026.3  

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  • Best Paper Nomination (GECCO ENUM Track)

    2025.6   GECCO 2025   CatCMA with Margin: Stochastic Optimization for Continuous, Integer, and Categorical Variables

    Ryoki Hamano, Masahiro Nomura, Shota Saito, Kento Uchida, Shinichi Shirakawa

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  • 全国大会優秀賞

    2024.11   人工知能学会 (JSAI 2024)   『IDOLY PRIDE』におけるアイドル埋め込みを用いたユニット編成最適化

    伊原滉也, 田村和範, 叶穎睿, 野村将寛

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  • Best Paper Nomination (GECCO ENUM Track)

    2023.7   GECCO 2023   CMA-ES with Learning Rate Adaptation: Can CMA-ES with Default Population Size Solve Multimodal and Noisy Problems?

    Masahiro Nomura, Youhei Akimoto, Isao Ono

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  • Best Paper Nomination (GECCO ENUM Track)

    2022.7   GECCO 2022   CMA-ES with Margin: Lower-Bounding Marginal Probability for Mixed-Integer Black-Box Optimization

    Ryoki Hamano, Shota Saito, Masahiro Nomura, Shinichi Shirakawa

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  • 論文賞

    2021.6   電子情報通信学会   機械学習におけるハイパパラメータ最適化手法:概要と特徴

    尾崎嘉彦, 野村将寛, 大西正輝

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Teaching Experience

  • Procedural Programming Basics

    2025 Institution:Institute of Science Tokyo

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