Junichiro Niimi

Junichiro Niimi
Meijo University · Department of Business Management

Doctor of Economics
Looking for fun from Japan. Specialty in Multimodal Deep Learning in Marketing Analysis.

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Introduction
Dr. Junichiro NIIMI is the marketing/data science researcher in Tokyo, Japan. He studied at Nagoya University, Japan and completed Doctor of Economics in March, 2018. Now belonged to RIKEN AIP (AIP: center for Advanced Intelligence Project) which is Japanese bridgehead in leading AI/statistics research, and now working on the better prediction on consumer behaviors.
Additional affiliations
April 2020 - present
RIKEN
Position
  • Researcher
April 2022 - present
Meijo University
Position
  • Professor (Associate)
April 2019 - March 2022
Meijo University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
April 2015 - March 2018
Nagoya University
Field of study
  • Marketing Science
April 2013 - March 2015
Nagoya University
Field of study
  • Marketing Science
April 2009 - March 2013
Nagoya University
Field of study
  • Finance

Publications

Publications (29)
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Nowadays, along with the popularity of E-Commerce, the marketing strategy of retail stores has been more complicated with O2O or Omni-Channel. Therefore, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the important issue for the retail stores. It can be difficult to predict customers future behavior with the simple quantitive information such as...
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In the marketing field, understanding consumer heterogeneity, which is the internal or psychological difference among consumers that cannot be captured by behavioral logs, has long been a critical challenge. However, a number of consumers today usually post their evaluation on the specific product on the online platform, which can be the valuable s...
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In recent years, various novel techniques have emerged in the realm of deep learning for enhanced pattern recognition. Multimodal learning is a widely used approach that enables simultaneous data input across multiple modalities, including video, audio, and text. For customer relationship management in the field of marketing, a comprehensive analys...
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In this study, we aimed to understand and reduce the difference between self-report in a survey and the actual behavior. Thus, we investigated whether such a difference was caused by participants who engaged in insufficient effort responding (IER), which has been receiving increasing research attention. We collected and analyzed data of actual and...
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Background Public perceptions and personal characteristics are heterogeneous between countries and subgroups, which may have different impacts on health-protective behaviors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To assess whether self-reported perceptions of COVID-19 and personal characteristics are associated with protective beh...
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In recent years, machine learning methods, including deep learning, have continued to evolve rapidly. As examples, generative models capable of generating media data and large-scale language models capable of natural communication have emerged, and are having a significant impact in a wide range of fields, not only in the creation of simple applica...
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It has become common for consumers to post texts online, such as opinions and product reviews. Various methods to analyze these data have been explored in the field of natural language processing. Recently, large language models (LLMs) are actively utilized. While many commercially available LLMs are provided as cloud services, the demand for local...
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User-generated contents (UGCs) on online platforms allow marketing researchers to understand consumer preferences for products and services. With the advance of large language models (LLMs), some studies utilized the models for annotation and sentiment analysis. However, the relationship between the accuracy and the hyper-parameters of LLMs is yet...
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User-generated contents (UGCs) on online platforms allow marketing researchers to understand consumer preferences for products and services. With the advance of large language models (LLMs), some studies utilized the models for annotation and sentiment analysis. However, the relationship between the accuracy and the hyper-parameters of LLMs is yet...
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In recent years, various novel techniques have emerged in the realm of deep learning for enhanced pattern recognition. Multimodal learning is a widely used approach that enables simultaneous data input across multiple modalities, including video, audio, and text.For customer relationship management in the field of marketing, a comprehensive analysi...
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In the marketing field, online service providers have recently implemented personalized recommendations on various mobile applications as a part of customer relationship management. However, there has long been an issue of consumer heterogeneity, where each customer has internal differences that are difficult to discern from behavioral logs. On the...
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Today, the acquisition of various behavioral log data has enabled deeper understanding of customer preferences and future behaviors in the marketing field. In particular, multimodal deep learning has achieved highly accurate predictions by combining multiple types of data. Many of these studies utilize with feature fusion to construct multimodal mo...
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In recent, the assessment of short-term usage behavior has relied on the Clumpiness index. However, it became evident that relying solely on Clumpiness is insufficient in capturing the nuances of such behavior. In response, this study systematically addresses the limitations of Clumpiness and introduces the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) as an ad...
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This study examines the impact of consumers' short-term intensive use of smartphone games on behavioral loyalty. In recent, short-term usage called clumpiness has received increasing attentions. However, if we utilize the indice in order to capture those short-term intensive use, several problems pop up. In this presentation, we sort the problems i...
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Background: Public perceptions and personal characteristics are heterogeneous between countries and subgroups, which may have different impacts on health-protective behaviors during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To assess whether self-reported perceptions of COVID-19 and personal characteristics are associated with protective be...
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In recent, the concept of clumpiness has received increasing attention as a novelmethod called RFMC in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). However, it hasbeen not so long since clumpiness is proposed, there still remains difficulties. In thispaper we firstly identify the problems of clumpiness in both statistical and practicalfields, propose th...
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In recent, the concept of clumpiness has received increasing attention as a novel method called RFMC in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). However, it has been not so long since clumpiness is proposed, there still remains difficulties. In this paper we firstly identify the problems of clumpiness in both statistical and practical fields, propos...
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In recent, the concept of clumpiness has received increasing attention as a novel method called RFMC in Customer Relationship Management (CRM). However, it has been not so long since clumpiness is proposed, there still remains difficulties. In this paper we firstly identify the problems of clumpiness in both statistical and practical fields, propos...
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Both in academia and practice various methods of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) have been in use especially RFMC (Zhang et al., 2014) which is recently proposed as a novel method due to its high performance of predicting competitive purchase. However, it still has difficulty identifying consumer heterogeneity compared to variety variables p...
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Nowadays various kinds of data about customers behavior on online websites or applications can be collected for the marketing analysis. However, especially for the physical retailing stores, it is still difficult to acquire their behaviors on competing firms. In this research, we develop a novel approach of considering the usage of competitors We p...
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Nowadays it is difficult for companies to formulate marketing strategy without considering their customers behavior in competing �rms. However, even in the big data era, combining large scale data in the company and the general lifestyle survey data is still tough. In this research we created the data fusion model with Deep Boltzmann Machine to com...
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Nowadays, along with the popularity of E-Commerce, the marketing strategy of retail stores has been more complicated with O2O or Omni-channel. Therefore, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the important issue for the retail stores. It can be difficult to predict customers future behavior with the simple quantitive information such as...
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It is important for the companies to get much information about their customers. For example, the information that how often each customer purchases from the competitors can be useful when we plan the promotion strategy. In this paper, we focus on the web services and predict customers' behaviors such as browses and purchases in two companies and t...
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It is important for the companies to get much information about their customers. For example, the information that how often each customer purchases from the competitors can be useful when we plan the promotion strategy. In this paper, we focus on the web services and predict customers' behaviors such as browses and purchases in two companies...

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Hi there, I'm so appreciated you pay attentions to this question.
Nowadays, it is quite common that we consider masking or padding when dealing with the data including missing values on sequential data on RNN (or perhaps on image data on CNN).
However, I have not found the paper to propose/establish the exact method.
The reason why I'm looking for it is that I would like to learn what exact happens in RNN to LSTM layer when it is masked as 'Skip the input' .
If you know of any, please let me know.
Thanks from Japan.
---I would make a few additions---
When reading about masking technique, we can often see the descriptions like “ignore the missing value” or “skip the input” with masking. On the other hand, there are few references in the literature that explain in mathematical formulas the skipping of input missing values.
Then, I wonder what exactly happens inside the RNN layer when input is masked.
As you can see in the attached image of the formula, RNN state z^t in timestep t can be expressed with the input x^t, recurrent input z^{t-1}, and the wights W.
And, if the input is masked to be ignored, how is z^t calculated?
Is z^t calculated with imputing x^t (like, same values in previous timestep is inputted) ?
Or, is z^t not calculated and exported as NaN value?
I'm sorry but I'm not looking for an imputation method but the mechanism inside RNN or LSTM when masked to ignore the input.
Again, thank you from Japan.
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In these days, the "feature fusion" in deep neural networks became so popular that many of the academic papers implement it without references.
So, could you please recommend some papers dealing with the effects of feature fusion (i.e., concatenating the hidden layers/multiple inputs), or forking the network (for multiple outputs) ?
Papers in any fields are welcome.
Appreciated for your attention.
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Hi, now I'm looking for existing literatures to apply Cox Proportional Hazards Model as survival analysis to customer churn predictions in marketing field.
Customer churn prediction is important in terms of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and can be applied to following fields:
- Continuous service (such as )
- Continuous product (such as mobile apps)
- E-Commerce (such as Amazon, e-bay)
- Retailers (such as supermarket)
Do you have any suggestion?
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Hi, now I'm facing new problem at the construction of neural network in tensotflow.
I would like to implement regression/classification problem at a same time in one neural network, which has two outputs, one for the classification [discrete variable as 0 or 1] and the other for the regression [continuous positive variable like time or length]. This kind of network shares any weights and biases for the several outputs.
In the deepnet library, I can construct this kind of network by jointly locating multiple layers (sigmoid and ReLU) for the output like multi-modal network, however, does anyone know how to do it with Tensorflow?
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Does anyone know good Gaussian Bernoulli Deep Boltzmann Machine (GBDBM) library which is easy to modify? I have used deepnet by Nitish Srivastava (https://github.com/nitishsrivastava/deepnet) for several years but it is no longer maintained. So it is better if available in Tensorflow.
Thank you.

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