Researches

External Links

T. Yamana and J. Hoshino: Compressing the Evaluation Function With Small-Scale Deep Learning on Othello, IEEE Transactions on Games, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 128-138, doi: 10.1109/TG.2025.3624825 (2026) (Impact Factor=3.0)
Takuto Yamana, and Junichi Hoshino: Developing and Evaluating a Strong Othello AI with Small-scale Deep Learning as a Compression, IPSJ Journal, Vol. 65, No. 10, pp. 1545-1553, doi: 10.20729/00239899 {Specially Selected Paper}

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Takuto Yamana, and Junichi Hoshino: Development and Evaluation of an Othello Explanation System using Othello AI and LLM, Proceedings of Game Programming Workshop, Vol. 2025, pp.104-111 (2025) {Game Programming Workshop Best Poster Award}

Takuto Yamana, and Junichi Hoshino: Interaction Design of an Othello Learning-Support Robot and Design Insights from Exhibitions, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of JSSD, Vol. 2026, No. 73, Session ID C-05-01 (2026)
山名琢翔：GPGPUによるαβ法を用いた高速なオセロ探索手法, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports (GI), Vol. 2024-GI-51, No. 26, pp. 1-9 (2024) {Young Encouragement Award}
Takuto Yamana: Mastering Othello with Deep Learning as a Compression, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports (GI), Vol. 2022-GI-48, No. 5, pp. 1-5 (2022) {Excellent Research Award, and IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award}

Takuto Yamana：Is Othello Solved? Let's Make it Clear!, IPSJ Magazine, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 134-136 (2024) {Special Commentary}
Takuto Yamana：A Robot that Solves 2x2x2 Cube Puzzle in 2 Seconds, Toragi Junior, 2021 Winter (No. 44), Transistor Gijutsu, 2021 February (2021)

Takuto Yamana: From Algorithms to Robots! The World Expanded by Othello AI, JOI Spring Seminar 2026 (2026) {General Lecture}
Takuto Yamana：2 months after weakly solved. Othello AI predicts the future of humans and AI, The 65th Programming Symposium (2024) {Special Lecture}
Takuto Yamana：A quarter century has passed since the victory over humans. Othello AI is not finished yet, The 28th Game Programming Workshop (GPW-23) (2023) {Invited Lecture}

Takuto Yamana: The Future of Othello AI is Robots, Yoriai.tech with mairu (LT) (2026)
Takuto Yamana: Othello AI Recommended, わくわくLT会 Vol.2 (LT) (2025)
Takuto Yamana: Othello AI is Interesting, 新年LT (LT) (2025)
Takuto Yamana: An Interesting Othello AI because it's Late, さくらのAI Meetup vol.3 #さくらのAI (2024)
Takuto Yamana: Happy if Othello AI could be Useful for Robots, 第45回ロボティクス勉強会 (Regular Presentation) (2024)
Takuto Yamana: In Othello, you have 4 squares filled in at the beginning. That's actually a command..., coinsLT #1000 (Walk-in Presentation) (2023)
Takuto Yamana: Making an Othello AI and Turning Othello into Music, Music×Analytics Meetup Vol.9 (7min LT) (2022)
Takuto Yamana: Othello AI Released on the Web, #さくらのマイクロコミュニティ（Webサービス開発者の会） #1 (LT) (2022)
Takuto Yamana: Making and Rubik's Cubes, #stdout2020 学生LT会 (LT) (2020)
Takuto Yamana: I want to be the world record holder for Rubik's Cube (in the robotics category), CubingLT #1 (LT) (2020)