AI Avatar Inc. Achieves Spotlight Acceptance (Top ~3%) at NeurIPS, the World's Premier AI Conference

AI Avatar Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Ichiro Kato) is pleased to announce that the paper "Angular Steering: Behavior Control via Rotation in Activation Space," co-authored by Torilab, our group's R&D hub, and the National University of Singapore (NUS), has received Spotlight acceptance, an honor awarded to the top approximately 3% of submissions, at NeurIPS 2025, the world's premier international conference on AI and machine learning.

This acceptance at NeurIPS, where top global AI companies such as Google, OpenAI, and Meta, along with prestigious universities worldwide, compete to submit papers, demonstrates our group's world-class fundamental AI research capabilities. Moving forward, we will strengthen our global R&D system, centered on Torilab, and contribute to the social implementation in the era of generative AI.

**Overview of Research Achievements**

Paper Title: Angular Steering: Behavior Control via Rotation in Activation Space

Accepted Conference: NeurIPS 2025 (Neural Information Processing Systems)

Acceptance Category: Spotlight Acceptance (an honor awarded to the top approximately 3% of submitted papers)

Paper ID: arXiv:2510.26243

Joint Research Institutions: Torilab (Our Group's R&D Hub) × National University of Singapore (NUS)

Researchers: Hieu M. Vu (Torilab) / Tan M. Nguyen (NUS)

**About the Research Content**

This research proposes a new method for precisely and safely controlling the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs). By introducing a new mathematical approach of 'Rotation' in the LLM's internal representation space (Activation Space), it enables a dramatic improvement in the safety and reliability of model outputs.

As the social implementation of generative AI progresses, behavior control of models is an extremely important theme for ensuring AI safety and reliability. This achievement represents a contribution at the fundamental research level to a central challenge in the practical application of AI.

**What Spotlight Acceptance Means**

NeurIPS's Position: The world's No. 1 and most authoritative international conference in the field of AI and machine learning.

Spotlight Acceptance Rate: Awarded to only a select few of the thousands of submitted papers each year, representing approximately the top 3%, equivalent to a medal-winning performance in the Olympics.

Competing Research Institutions: The highest stage where top global AI companies like Google, OpenAI, and Meta compete to submit papers.

NeurIPS is the world's most authoritative international conference in the field of AI and machine learning. Spotlight is a category given to only a very small fraction of the thousands to tens of thousands of papers submitted each year, with an acceptance rate of approximately the top 3%, an evaluation equivalent to a medal-winning performance in the Olympics. Our group (Torilab / Vietnam R&D hub) being recognized on a stage alongside top global AI companies demonstrates our contribution to world-class fundamental AI research.

**Future Outlook**

Our conversational AI avatar technology, developed and provided by our company, utilizes multimodal technology (text, voice, facial expressions) as an 'empathetic AI' and is being increasingly used in various fields, including healthcare and education. Moving forward, we will further strengthen our global R&D system, centered on Torilab, and expand the pipeline for basic research in LLM, AI avatar, and speech synthesis (TTS) domains, and quickly deploy its results to business sites both domestically and internationally.

We aim to establish global standards for AI avatar utilization in diverse fields, founded on world-class research and development capabilities.

**About AI Avatar Inc.**

AI Avatar Inc. is engaged in the social implementation of 'empathetic AI' utilizing multimodal technology, primarily through the development and provision of the emotion-understanding conversational app "AI AVATAR." Starting its AI avatar business in Japan in 2022, the company is also promoting expansion into medical and educational fields and collaborations with other companies.

**[Company Overview]**

Company Name: AI Avatar Inc.

Representative: Representative Director Ichiro Kato

Location: Pacific Century Place Marunouchi 20F, 1-11-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Business Activities: Development/operation/sales of AI-powered consumer products

URL: https://na2.hubs.ly/H04nj6M0

Group R&D Hub: Torilab (Vietnam R&D hub)

**Reference Information**

Paper: Angular Steering: Behavior Control via Rotation in Activation Space