Global
AI Awards and Competition Achievements
Ricoh has positioned AI as a core technology for solving customer challenges as it pursues its medium- to long-term vision of becoming the leading global integrator of the customer's workplace. By embedding AI into its products and services, while also advancing internal business transformation and data utilization platforms, Ricoh is promoting data-driven value creation on the front lines, close to customers.
In addition to its research and development activities, Ricoh has built a data science community around its internal Data Science School and is developing data science talent across the Ricoh Group. Employees can also choose to participate in advanced data science competitions, helping them continuously strengthen their data analytics and AI expertise. The results of these efforts have also been recognized through external awards and by international academic and research communities.
Major Achievements in International Competition and Research
The Ricoh Group has participated in international competitions and research challenges in fields such as natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision, achieving numerous first-place finishes and other top results.
The Ricoh Group has achieved notable results in internationally recognized evaluation tasks, including information extraction at TAC and NTCIR, machine translation at WAT, question answering at SQuAD, and large language model (LLM)-related tasks at TREC and SemEval.
Ricoh's research achievements have also gained recognition from the international research community, including the acceptance of papers to the main track of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
| Name | Organizer | Task | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| TREC 2025 Text Retrieval Conference |
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LLM-Powered Known-Item Retrieval Tip-of-the-Tongue |
1st |
| TREC 2025 Text Retrieval Conference |
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Query-Aware LLM Ranking Million LLM |
1st |
| SemEval 2025 Semantic Evaluation at ACL |
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LLM Finetuning Food Hazard Detection |
1st |
| ICDAR 2024 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition |
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General Document Recognition | 1st |
| ECCV 2024 European Conference on Computer Vision |
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Single Point Tracking | 1st |
| SMM4H 2024 Social Media Mining for Health at ACL |
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LLM Generalizability for Social Media NLP | 1st |
| NTCIR 2023 NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research |
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Multilingual ADE Detection | 1st |
| CDMC 2022 International Cybersecurity Data Mining Competition |
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Document Table Recognition | 1st |
| SQuAD2.0 (2021) Leaderboard on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset |
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Machine Reading Comprehension | 1st |
| TAC 2019 Text Analysis Conference |
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Medical Information Extraction Drug-Drug Interaction |
1st |
| WAT 2019 Workshop on Asian Translation |
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Machine Translation | 1st |
| WAT 2018 Workshop on Asian Translation |
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Machine Translation | 1st |
| TAC 2017 Text Analysis Conference |
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Knowledge Graph | 1st |
| NTCIR 2017 NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research |
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Short Text Conversation | 2nd |
| COAE 2015 Chinese Opinion Analysis Evaluation |
|
Sentiment Analysis | 1st |
2026
2026-11-5
Ricoh paper on information-theoretic method for steering LLM behavior accepted at AACL 2026
2026-9-30
Ricoh's Kenji Komito Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's Biohub - Cell Tracking During Development
2026-8-17
Ricoh's Yoshimitsu Kumai Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's ROGII - Wellbore Geology Prediction
2026-8-7
Ricoh's Kazuma Matsuura Receives a Gold Medal in Kaggle's BirdCLEF+ 2026
2026-7-16
Ricoh's Kenta Sekiguchi Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's The 2026 NeuroGolf Championship
2026-7-1
Ricoh's Yoshimitsu Kumai Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's Hull Tactical - Market Prediction Competition
2026-6-19
Ricoh paper on reliable AI development with limited data accepted for poster presentation at IJCNN 2026
2026-6-4
Ricoh's Yuichiro Uematsu, Kenta Sekiguchi and Risa Ichimura Receive Gold Medals in Kaggle's BirdCLEF+ 2026
2026-5-26
Ricoh's Daisuke Maeda Receives a Gold Medal in Kaggle's Santa 2025 - Christmas Tree Packing Challenge
Beyond His Specialty: How a Ricoh Engineer Reached Kaggle Gold
2026-4-16
Ricoh's Ryoichi Saotome Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's AI Mathematical Olympiad - Progress Prize 3
2026-3-24
Ricoh's Ryoichi Saotome Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's Deep Past Challenge - Translate Akkadian to English
2026-3-11
Ricoh's Kenta Sekiguchi Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's NeurIPS 2025 Google Code Golf Championship
2026-3-11
Ricoh's Kenji Komito Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's RSNA Intracranial Aneurysm Detection
2026-3-11
Ricoh's Kenji Komito Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's MAP - Charting Student Math Misunderstandings
2025
2025-12-2
Ricoh's Kenji Komito Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Stanford RNA 3D Folding
2025-11-20
Ricoh's Kenji Komito Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's NeurIPS - Ariel Data Challenge
2025-10-23
Ricoh's Kenji Komito Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's BYU - Locating Bacterial Flagellar Motors 2025
2025-10-12
Ricoh's Ryoichi Saotome Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's Jane Street Real-Time Market Data Forecasting
2025-9-22
Ricoh's Yoshimitsu Kumai Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's NeurIPS - Open Polymer Prediction 2025
2025-4-25
Ricoh's Ken Oikawa Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's NeurIPS 2024 - Lux AI Season 3
2025-4-6
Ryoichi Saotome and Kenji Komito Receive Silver Medals, and Sho Nemoto Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's CIBMTR - Equity in Post-HCT Survival Predictions
2025-2-7
Ricoh's Ryoichi Saotome Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's CZII CryoET Object Identification
2025-2-4
Ricoh's Daisuke Maeda, Yoichi Ichikawa, and Shiori Osugi Receive Silver Medals in Kaggle's Santa 2024
2025-2-3
Ricoh's Kenta Sekiguchi Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Santa 2024
2025-1-8
Ricoh's Yoshimitsu Kumai Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Child Mind Institute - Problematic Internet Use
2025-1-7
Ricoh's Taisei Saito Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Child Mind Institute - Problematic Internet Use
2024
2024-8-5
Ricoh's Taisei Saito Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Image Matching Challenge 2024 - Hexathlon
2024-6-26
Ricoh's Kenta Sekiguchi Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Santa 2023 - The Polytope Permutation Puzzle
2024-5-24
Ricoh's Yuichiro Uematsu, Takafumi Hiroi, and Kazuma Matsuura Receive Gold Medals in Kaggle's HMS - Harmful Brain Activity Classification, and Hiroi Achieves Kaggle Master Status
2024-1-25
Ricoh's Sho Nemoto Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Linking Writing Processes to Writing Quality
2023
2023-12-21
Ricoh's Kohei Takita Receives His Second Gold Medal in Kaggle's Child Mind Institute - Detect Sleep States
2023-10-31
Ricoh's Kazuma Matsuura and Takafumi Hiroi Receive Silver Medals in Kaggle's RSNA 2023 Abdominal Trauma Detection
2023-6-15
Ricoh's Kazuma Matsuura and Takafumi Hiroi Receive Bronze Medals in Kaggle's Image Matching Challenge 2023
2023-6-15
Ricoh's Hiroki Hiraguchi Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's Image Matching Challenge 2023
2023-6-2
Ricoh's Ken Oikawa Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Lux AI Season 2
2023-6-1
Ricoh's Kazuma Matsuura Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Google - Isolated Sign Language Recognition
2023-5-8
Ricoh's Kohei Takita Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's NFL 1st and Future - Player Contact Detection
2023-4-14
Ricoh's Yuichiro Uematsu Receives His Third Gold Medal in Kaggle's NFL 1st and Future - Player Contact Detection
2023-4-6
Ricoh's Kenta Sekiguchi and Yuichiro Uematsu Receive Silver Medals in Kaggle's Santa 2022 - The Christmas Card Conundrum
2023-4-1
Ricoh's Sho Nemoto Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's RSNA Screening Mammography Breast Cancer Detection
2023-2-16
Ricoh's Kazuma Matsuura and Takafumi Hiroi Receive Silver Medals in Kaggle's OTTO - Multi-Objective Recommender System
2023-1-16
Ricoh's Hiroki Hiraguchi, Kazuma Matsuura, and Takafumi Hiroi Receive Silver Medals in Kaggle's RSNA 2022 Cervical Spine Fracture Detection, and Hiraguchi Achieves Kaggle Master Status
2022
2022-10-19
Ricoh's Kazuma Matsuura and Takafumi Hiroi Receive Silver Medals in Kaggle's UW-Madison GI Tract Image Segmentation
2022-9-5
Ricoh's Yuichiro Uematsu Receives His Second Gold Medal in Kaggle's Google Smartphone Decimeter Challenge 2022
2022-8-9
Ricoh's Ken Oikawa Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's Kore 2022
2022-7-13
Ricoh's Kohei Takita Receives a Silver Medal in Kaggle's U.S. Patent Phrase to Phrase Matching and Achieves Kaggle Master Status
2022-7-6
Ricoh's Sho Nemoto Receives a Bronze Medal in Kaggle's U.S. Patent Phrase to Phrase Matching
2022-6-14
Ricoh's Yuichiro Uematsu Receives a Gold Medal in Kaggle's BirdCLEF 2022
2022-1-24
Ricoh's Kohei Takita Receives a Gold Medal in Kaggle's PetFinder.my - Pawpularity Contest
2021
2021-9-1
Paper on a High-Speed, Low-Power AI Model Training Circuit Architecture Authored by Ricoh's Tamon Sadasue et al. Receives the TSLDM Best Paper Award
2021-2-18
Ricoh's Fumihiro Sasaki's Paper on Imitation Learning Selected for Spotlight Presentation at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)