The 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2025 is starting on November 20th at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). Here is an update:

• The main conference is in-person, single-track format. Registration includes online access to >400 papers in Spring LNCS and CCIS.

• Tutorials can be joined in-person or online. Registration allows access to recordings of all tutorials.

• Registrations for the banquet, childcare, shuttle bus, etc. will close on October 31st (AoE).

• Open Forum on AI Agents and Human Society is organized for dialogue with local citizens and students.

Please visit the web https://iconip2025.apnns.org and register. We hope to see many of you in beautiful Okinawa.

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The 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2025
Date: November 20 to 24, 2025
Venue: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST): https://www.oist.jp
Web site: https://iconip2025.apnns.org

Honorary Chairs: Shun-ichi Amari, Kunihiko Fukushima

Keynote Lectures:
Jun Tani (OIST): Development of Higher Cognitive Mechanisms: Insights From Neurorobotics

Yew Soon Ong (NTU): Closing the gap: From Digital AI to Physically grounded intelligence
Asako Kanezaki (IST): Machine Learning for Robots: From Perception to Action

Tutorials:
Taiji Suzuki (U Tokyo): Mathematical Theories of Deep Foundation Models
Takuya Isomura (RIKEN): Free-energy Principle for AI Researchers and Neuroscientists
Saori Tanaka (ATR, NAIST), Okito Yamashita (ATR, RIKEN), Yu Takagi (NIT): AI for Human Neuroscience Research
Maryam Doborjeh, Nikola Kasabov (AUT): Improved Explainability with Spiking Neural Networks
Yoshimasa Tawatsuji, Hiroshi Yamakawa, Yudai Suzuki (U Tokyo): Methodology for Designing Brain-Like AI Software

Special Sessions:
Sustainable Smart Villages – Harnessing Edge AI and TinyML for Low-Resource Communities
Generative AI and Deep Learning for Advancing Affective Human-Robot Interaction
Reliable, Robust and Secure Machine Learning Algorithms
and 5 more

Workshops:
18th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity (AICS 2025)
Quantifying and Simulating Multi-Neuromodulatory Dynamics in the Biological Brain
and 5 more

Open Forum: Society of Humans and AI Agents (in Japanese with English transcript)

Yutaro Yamada (Sakana AI)

Mizuki Oka (Chiba Tech, Artificial Life Institue)

and other panelists

General Chairs: Kenji Doya, Maryam Doborjeh
Program Chairs: Tadahiro Taniguchi, Andrew Chi Sing Leung

Inquiry: iconip2025@apnns.org

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Kenji Doya <doya@oist.jp>
Neural Computation Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
1919-1 Tancha, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
Phone: +81-98-966-8594; Fax: +81-98-966-2891 https://www.oist.jp/ncu