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AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2140 papers with a public code repository

“As Eastern Powers, I Will Veto.”: An Investigation of Nation-Level Bias of Large Language Models in International Relations

Jonghyeon Choi (Yonsei University), Beakcheol Jang (Yonsei University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically evaluates country-level bias in large language models within the field of international relations, constructing a real-world dataset using United Nations Security Council resolutions and voting records, and designing three experiments (direct question answering, association testing, and voting simulation) to quantify bias.

2D Gaussians Spatial Transport for Point-supervised Density Regression

Miao Shang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Xiaopeng Hong (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeObject DetectionPose EstimationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerGaussian SplattingImagePoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the Gaussian Spatial Transport (GST) framework for point annotation density regression tasks. By first performing 2D Gaussian splatting on the input image to estimate the conditional probability between pixels and annotated points, a precomputable transport kernel is constructed; subsequently, during network training, the predicted density map is projected into the annotation space with a single matrix multiplication to compute the error, thereby avoiding the high computational cost of traditional OT iterative solutions for transport plans.

2D-CrossScan Mamba: Enhancing State Space Models with Spatially Consistent Multi-Path 2D Information Propagation

Longlong Yu (Hangzhou Dianzi University), Yuchen Guo (Hangzhou Dianzi University)

CodeClassificationObject DetectionSegmentationImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed a 2D-compatible scanning framework called 2D-CrossScan, improving state space models such as Mamba to enable spatially consistent multi-path information propagation in 2D images.

3D-DRES: Detailed 3D Referring Expression Segmentation

Qi Chen (Xiamen University), Liujuan Cao (Xiamen University)

CodeSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerVision Language ModelTextPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes the detailed 3D referring expression segmentation (3D-DRES) task, which requires the model to map each noun phrase in a sentence to its corresponding 3D instance and generate a segmentation mask.

3DAlign-DAER: Dynamic Attention Policy and Efficient Retrieval Strategy for Fine-grained 3D-Text Alignment at Scale

Yijia Fan (Sun Yat-sen University), Keze Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeClassificationRetrievalRepresentation LearningTransformerContrastive LearningTextMultimodalityPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Proposes the 3DAlign-DAER framework to achieve fine-grained cross-modal alignment between 3D shapes and text.

3DDM: Physically-based Anisotropic 3D Diffusion Model with 3D Gaussian for Point Cloud Completion

Long Xi (Xi'an Polytechnic University), Wen Lv (Bournemouth University)

CodeRestorationTransformerDiffusion modelPoint CloudStochastic Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Proposed a physics-based anisotropic three-dimensional diffusion model (3DDM) for recovering complete 3D models from partial point clouds.

3DTeethSAM: Taming SAM2 for 3D Teeth Segmentation

Zhiguo Lu, Kun Zhou (Tianjin University)

CodeSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerPoint CloudMeshBiomedical DataBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Using the pre-trained SAM2 model, first render 3D dental meshes into multi-view 2D images, segment these images, and then project the 2D segmentation results back into 3D space through voting and Graph Cut, achieving automated 3D dental instance segmentation and semantic annotation.

6DAttack: Backdoor Attacks in the 6DoF Pose Estimation

Jihui Guo (University of Hong Kong), Xinlei He (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodePose EstimationAdversarial AttackConvolutional Neural NetworkImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed the 6DAttack framework to perform backdoor attacks on 6DoF pose estimation models.

A Better Start: Sensitivity-Aware Warm-Up for Robust and Efficient Fine-Tuning

Yile Chen (South China University of Technology), Jin Huang (South China Normal University)

CodeOptimizationComputational EfficiencyTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a learning rate sensitivity-based adaptive warm-up strategy (SAWU) for the warm-up phase in large model fine-tuning, dynamically adjusting loss, learning rate, and phase switching;

A Boundary Token Graph for Zero-Shot Relation Triplet Extraction Involving Discontinuous Entities

Kailun Lyu (Northeastern University), Jingwei Cheng (Northeastern University)

CodeRecognitionTransformerPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: This paper studies the challenges of discrete entities in zero-shot relation triplet extraction (ZSRTE), proposing a new framework based on the Boundary Marking Graph (BoG) that transforms triplet extraction into a graph path search problem.

A Causal Target for Learning to Defer Under Hidden Confounding

Yanmin Li (National University of Defense Technology), Weidong Bao (National University of Defense Technology)

CodeOptimizationTabular

🎯 What it does: Proposes a causal objective based on sharp interval estimation to learn a rejectable (pending) strategy under hidden confounding;

A Domain-specific Heuristic for PDDL+-based Traffic Signal Optimisation

Francesco Doria (University of Calabria), Mauro Vallati (University of Huddersfield)

CodeOptimizationTabularTime Series

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a domain-specific heuristic hCAFE for PDDL+ traffic signal optimization and combines it with Greedy Best-First Search to build a planning framework deployable on actual traffic control infrastructure.

A Flat Minima Perspective on Understanding Augmentations and Model Robustness

Weebum Yoo (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), Sung Whan Yoon (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

CodeDomain AdaptationAdversarial AttackData-Centric LearningImage

🎯 What it does: This paper theoretically derives how label-preserving data augmentation enhances model robustness under distribution shift through the perspective of flat minima.

A General Anchor-Based Framework for Scalable Fair Clustering

Shengfei Wei (National University of Defense Technology), Lei Luo (National University of Defense Technology)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTabularFinance Related

🎯 What it does: Designed a generic anchor-based fundamental framework (AFCF) to scale any fair clustering algorithm to linear time.

A GPU-based Constraint Programming Solver

Pierre Talbot (University of Luxembourg)

CodeOptimization

🎯 What it does: Proposed and implemented Turbo, a discrete constraint solver that runs entirely on the GPU, employing integer interval boundary propagation and backtracking search. The core technology involves converting the constraint network into a ternary constraint network (TCN) and performing parallel propagation and on-demand subproblem search on the GPU.

A Hybrid Space Model for Misaligned Multi-modality Image Fusion

Yi Xiao (Dalian University of Technology), Risheng Liu (Dalian University of Technology)

CodeConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes a dual-space framework that jointly optimizes image registration and fusion to address error alignment and information fusion in infrared and visible images.

A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Multi-Domain Low-Resource In-Context NER via Knowledge Retrieval, Disambiguation and Reflective Analysis

Wenxuan Mu, Yijia Zhang (Dalian Minzu University)

CodeRecognitionLarge Language ModelAgentic AIPrompt EngineeringTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose a multi-agent large language model framework called KDR-Agent, specifically designed for context learning in named entity recognition in multi-domain low-resource scenarios.

A Multimodal EEG-Eye Movement Model for Automatic Depression Detection

Hao-Long Yin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Bao-Liang Lu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeClassificationTransformerMixture of ExpertsContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: This study proposes a multimodal EEG-eye movement model called E Mo, which automatically detects depression using EEG and eye movement signals.

A Network of Biologically Inspired Rectified Spectral Units (ReSUs) Learns Hierarchical Features Without Error Backpropagation

Shanshan Qin (Flatiron Institute), Dmitri Chklovskii (Flatiron Institute)

CodeImage TranslationRepresentation LearningTime SeriesBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Designed and trained a self-supervised neural network based on past-future Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) - Rectified Spectral Units (ReSUs) - achieving hierarchical features analogous to fly visual motion detection in a 1D natural image translation task.

A Novel Approach to Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Multi-Output Structured Prediction

Akshay Vyas (University of Texas at Dallas), Nicholas Ruozzi (University of Texas at Dallas)

CodeImage TranslationSegmentationGenerationTransformerContrastive LearningImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Built an evaluation framework based on task approximate invariance, using this framework to systematically evaluate the reliability of existing evaluation metrics in multi-output structured prediction tasks (image colorization, machine translation, image captioning), and added invariance auxiliary loss during model training, comparing model performance across multiple metrics before and after invariance regularization.

A Novel Fine-Tuned CLIP-OOD Detection Method with Double Loss Constraint Through Optimal Transport Semantic Alignment

Hengyang Lu (Jiangnan University), Chenyou Fan (Anhui University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionRepresentation LearningTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a Fine-Tuned Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection method called DOT-OOD for Vision-Language models (CLIP), addressing the low-focus attention problem.

A Novel Retrieve-Read-Group Paradigm for Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization

Binhan Yang (Nankai University), Han Tian (Nankai University)

CodeRepresentation LearningTransformerContrastive LearningTextBenchmarkRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Retrieve-Read-Group three-phase paradigm, and implemented the normalization of entity phrases in open knowledge bases (OKB) using the self-supervised DUVK framework.

A Paradigm Shift in High-Resolution Depth Estimation Using SPAD-Based LiDAR Histograms: From Signal Filtering to Lightweight Similarity Learning

Minsung Lee (Ajou University), Jongmin Lee (Ajou University)

CodeDepth EstimationComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a lightweight similarity learning network called LITOFNET, which directly estimates depth from SPAD LiDAR histograms, avoiding traditional signal filtering methods.

A Principle-Driven Adaptive Policy for Group Cognitive Stimulation Dialogue for Elderly with Cognitive Impairment

Jiyue Jiang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Chuan Wu (University of Hong Kong)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Proposed GCSD—a principle-driven adaptive strategy for multi-party cognitive stimulation dialogues targeting elderly patients with cognitive impairments, integrating multi-speaker context control, dynamic participant cognitive state modeling, cognitive stimulation attention loss, and multi-dimensional reward optimization;

A Pseudo-Label Optimization Method Based on Polar Coordinate Modeling and Prior Constraints

Yudi Wang (Central South University), Zailiang Chen (Central South University)

CodeSegmentationConvolutional Neural NetworkBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: Proposed a pseudo-label optimization method (PMPC) based on polar coordinate modeling and prior constraints to enhance the accuracy of medical image semi-supervised segmentation and reduce false positives.

A Reasoning Paradigm for Named Entity Recognition

Hui Huang (Guizhou University), Yongbin Qin (Guizhou University)

CodeRecognitionTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningPrompt EngineeringTextRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposed a Chain-of-Thought (CoT) based named entity recognition framework called ReasoningNER, which achieves explicit reasoning for entities through a three-phase process (CoT generation, CoT fine-tuning, and inference enhancement);

A Scalable and Exact Relaxation for Densest k-Subgraph via Error Bounds

Ya Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Aritra Konar (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeOptimizationGraph

🎯 What it does: Proposes an exact penalty continuous relaxation method based on the error bound principle for solving the dense k-subgraph (DkS) problem.

A Solution Space Transformation-Guided Co-Evolution for Energy-Saving Distributed Heterogeneous Flexible Job Shop Scheduling

Tao Li (Henan Normal University), Zhi-Hui Zhan (Henan Normal University)

CodeOptimizationReinforcement LearningTabularBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a Solution Space Transformation Guided Coevolutionary Algorithm (SSTCE) for the Energy-Saving Distributed Heterogeneous Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (ES-DHFJSP), significantly improving scheduling quality and reducing energy consumption.

A Stage-Aware Mixture of Experts Framework for Neurodegenerative Disease Progression Modelling

Tiantian He (University College London), Daniel C. Alexander (University College London)

CodeGraph Neural NetworkMixture of ExpertsAuto EncoderTime SeriesBiomedical DataPositron Emission TomographyAlzheimer's Disease

🎯 What it does: Propose a phase-aware hybrid expert framework to model the long-term progression of neurodegenerative diseases.

A Text-Routed Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Model with Explanation and Temporal Alignment for Multi-Modal Sentiment Analysis

Dongning Rao (Guangdong University of Technology), Jujian Lv (Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University)

CodeClassificationExplainability and InterpretabilityLarge Language ModelMixture of ExpertsMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a text routing sparse expert model that combines multi-modal large language models to generate explanations and time alignment for multi-modal sentiment analysis.

A Theory of Adaptive Scaffolding for LLM-Based Pedagogical Agents

Clayton Cohn (Vanderbilt University), Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Develop and evaluate an adaptive teaching agent, Inquizzitor, based on large language models, integrating Evidence-Centered Design, Social Cognitive Theory, and the Zone of Proximal Development framework, to implement immediate formative assessment and personalized feedback in middle school Earth science STEM+C courses.

A Theory-Inspired Framework for Few-Shot Cross-Modal Sketch Person Re-Identification

Yunpeng Gong (Xiamen University), Min Jiang (Xiamen University)

CodeRecognitionRetrievalDomain AdaptationMeta LearningGenerative Adversarial NetworkContrastive LearningImageMultimodality

🎯 What it does: To address the challenge of matching hand-drawn sketches with RGB surveillance images, the KTCAA framework is proposed, which achieves transfer from the data-rich RGB domain to the sketch domain with limited samples through local sketch-style enhancement and adversarial perturbations of RGB images under a meta-learning framework.

A TSP-Based Algorithm for Multi-League Traveling Tournament

Jingyang Zhao (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Ken-Ichi Kawarabayashi

CodeOptimization

🎯 What it does: This paper studies the p-partite Traveling Tournament Problem (p-partite TTP), proposes an efficient algorithm based on the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), and proves that the problem is NP-hard when p≥3.

A Unified Convergence Analysis for Semi-Decentralized Learning: Sampled-to-Sampled vs. Sampled-to-All Communication

Angelo Rodio (Linkping University), Erik G. Larsson (Centre Inria d'Universit' e Cˆte d'Azur)

CodeFederated LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper conducts a unified convergence analysis of two server-to-device communication primitives in semi-decentralized federated learning—Sampled-to-Sampled (S2S) and Sampled-to-All (S2A)—and provides both theoretical and experimental comparisons;

A Unified Shape-Aware Foundation Model for Time Series Classification

Zhen Liu (South China University of Technology), Qianli Ma (South China University of Technology)

CodeClassificationExplainability and InterpretabilityRepresentation LearningConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerContrastive LearningTime Series

🎯 What it does: Proposes UniShape, a unified shape-aware foundation model for time series classification, which enhances cross-domain generalization capability through pre-training + transfer learning.

A²Flow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation via Self-Adaptive Abstraction Operators

Mingming Zhao, Zhitang Chen (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)

CodeLarge Language ModelAgentic AITextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented the A²Flow framework, which automatically generates agentic workflows from expert examples without requiring manual definition of operators.

A²LC: Active and Automated Label Correction for Semantic Segmentation

Youjin Jeon (Yonsei University), Euntai Kim (Yonsei University)

CodeSegmentationTransformerVision Language ModelImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed a two-stage active and automatic label correction framework ALC2 for semantic segmentation.

AbductiveMLLM: Boosting Visual Abductive Reasoning Within MLLMs

Boyu Chang, Tianfei Zhou (Beijing Institute of Technology)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelDiffusion modelContrastive LearningVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a multimodal large language model called AbductiveMLLM that integrates language and visual imagination to enhance visual abductive reasoning (VAR) capabilities.

Accelerating LLM Inference Throughput via Asynchronous KV Cache Prefetching

Yanhao Dong (Alibaba Cloud), Feng Lyu (Central South University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerText

🎯 What it does: Propose an asynchronous KV Cache prefetch method based on GPU L2 cache, significantly improving LLM inference throughput

Accommodate Knowledge Conflicts in Retrieval-augmented LLMs: Towards Robust Response Generation in the Wild

Jiatai Wang (Nankai University), Tao Li (Eigen AI)

CodeRetrievalTransformerTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Swin-VIB framework, which uses variational information bottleneck and sliding windows to adaptively filter retrieval contexts, alleviating knowledge conflicts in retrieval-enhanced LLMs and improving response reliability.

ACID-Style: An Adaptive Condition Injection Diffusion Model for Arbitrary Style Transfer

Ting Yang (Central South University), Hui Fang (Sony (China) Limited)

CodeImage TranslationGenerationDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: Propose the ACID-Style framework, which employs a lightweight content and style injection adapter to achieve efficient arbitrary style transfer on Stable Diffusion.

Action-and-object Aware Alignment for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

Chuanshen Chen (South China University of Technology), Mingkui Tan (South China University of Technology)

CodeRetrievalConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a dual-branch framework A3PRVR for retrieving partially relevant video segments from untrimmed videos based on text queries, employing both action and object visual features, and incorporating query-specific deformable temporal attention (Q-DTA) and action/object-aware contrastive loss to achieve fine-grained video-text alignment.

Activation Manipulation Attack: Penetrating and Harmful Jailbreak Attack Against Large Vision-Language Models

Haojie Hao (Beihang University), Xianglong Liu (Beihang University)

CodeAdversarial AttackVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed ActMan, an activation manipulation attack framework that achieves stronger penetration and harmful destruction in large-scale vision-language models through fine-grained control of visual and language activations.

Activation-wise Propagation: A One-Timestep Strategy for Spiking Neural Networks

Jian Song, Donglin Wang (Westlake University)

CodeClassificationRecognitionObject DetectionSegmentationComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkSpiking Neural NetworkTransformerImagePoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose Activation Layer Membrane Potential Propagation (AMP2), a spiking neural network (SNN) framework enabling training and inference within a single clock cycle.

Activations as Features: Probing LLMs for Generalizable Essay Scoring Representations

Jinwei Chi, Qiang Xu (Jinan University)

CodeClassificationRepresentation LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringContrastive LearningTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Studied and verified that intermediate layer activations of large language models can effectively distinguish essay quality through linear probes, achieving significant performance in cross-prompt automatic essay scoring tasks.

Actor-Critic for Continuous Action Chunks: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation with Sparse Reward

Jiarui Yang (Fudan University), Yu-Gang Jiang (Fudan University)

CodeRobotic IntelligenceRecurrent Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningContrastive LearningSequentialBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Designed a new Actor-Critic framework AC3 specifically for directly learning continuous action blocks to address long-horizon robotic manipulation tasks with sparse rewards

AdaDepth: Exploiting Inherent Scene Information for Self-Supervised Depth Estimation in Dynamic Scenes

Xuanang Gao (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Wei Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeDepth EstimationAutonomous DrivingOptical FlowVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposes the AdaDepth framework, which generates more accurate monocular depth maps in dynamic scenes using self-supervised learning.

AdaField: Generalizable Surface Pressure Modeling with Physics-Informed Pre-training and Flow-Conditioned Adaptation

Junhong Zou (MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xiangyu Zhu (MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeAutonomous DrivingConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningPoint CloudPhysics Related

🎯 What it does: Propose the AdaField framework for predicting pressure fields on vehicle surfaces, achieving efficient transfer from pre-trained public car data to data-scarce train and aircraft scenarios.

Adapt Before Continual Learning

Aojun Lu (Sichuan University), Yanan Sun (Sichuan University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a framework called ACL that adaptively fine-tunes the pre-trained model (PTM) before each incremental task to enhance plasticity in continual learning while maintaining stability.

AdaptCLIP: Adapting CLIP for Universal Visual Anomaly Detection

Bin-Bin Gao (Tencent Youtu Lab), Chengjie Wang (Tencent Youtu Lab)

CodeAnomaly DetectionTransformerPrompt EngineeringContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Propose the AdaptCLIP framework, which adds three simple adapters to CLIP, achieving zero/few-shot visual anomaly detection and segmentation in cross-domain scenarios without requiring target domain fine-tuning.

Adaptive Diffusion-based Augmentation for Recommendation

Na Li (Harbin Institute of Technology), Ying Ma (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeRecommendation SystemDiffusion modelScore-based ModelGraphSequential

🎯 What it does: Proposed ADAR, a controllable negative sampling enhancement module based on diffusion models, which generates high-quality negative samples by progressively corroding positive samples during the diffusion process, thereby improving the performance of recommendation systems.

Adaptive Dynamic Dehazing via Instruction-Driven and Task-Feedback Closed-Loop Optimization for Diverse Downstream Task Adaptation

Yafei Zhang (Kunming University of Science and Technology), Yu Liu (Hefei University of Technology)

CodeRestorationObject DetectionSegmentationDepth EstimationTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a closed-loop optimization based adaptive dynamic dehazing framework that can adjust dehazing results in real-time without retraining during inference through bidirectional guidance from task feedback and text instructions;

Adaptive Evidential Learning for Temporal-Semantic Robustness in Moment Retrieval

Haojian Huang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Zhongjiang He (China Telecom)

CodeRetrievalTransformerVision Language ModelVideoText

🎯 What it does: Propose the DEMR model, introducing deep evidence regression in temporal-semantic retrieval, and significantly improving uncertainty estimation and retrieval accuracy through cross-modal fusion, query reconstruction, and geometric regularization.

Adaptive Evolutionary Fusion for Multi-View Clustering

Yunxiao Zhao (Shanxi University), Xian Yang (University of Manchester)

CodeOptimizationRepresentation LearningData-Centric LearningGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose an adaptive hierarchical fusion framework AEF-MVC based on unsupervised evolutionary algorithms, which uses a tree structure to fuse multi-view features to enhance clustering performance.

Adaptive Hyperbolic Kernels: Modulated Embedding in de Branges-Rovnyak Spaces

Leping Si (Southeast University), Pengfei Fang (Southeast University)

CodeClassificationRetrievalRepresentation LearningImageText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes an adaptive hyperbolic kernel based on curvature-adjustable de Branges-Rovnyak spaces, utilizing isometric mapping to embed hyperbolic spaces with arbitrary curvature into RKHS, and dynamically modulating hyperbolic features through learnable multipliers, further constructing adaptive hyperbolic kernels applicable to linear, polynomial, RBF, Laplacian, and the novel AHRad kernel;

Adaptive Initial Residual Connections for GNNs with Theoretical Guarantees

Mohammad Shirzadi (Australian National University), Ahad N. Zehmakan (Australian National University)

CodeClassificationRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkGraph

🎯 What it does: Propose Adaptive Initial Residual Connections (Adaptive IRC) to alleviate the over-smoothing problem in graph neural networks and enhance their expressiveness.

Adaptive LiDAR Scanning: Harnessing Temporal Cues for Efficient 3D Object Detection via Multi-Modal Fusion

Sara Shoouri (University of Michigan), Hun-Seok Kim (University of Michigan)

CodeObject DetectionAutonomous DrivingComputational EfficiencyTransformerMultimodalityPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose a multi-modal perception framework that predicts based on historical information and adaptively controls LiDAR scan density;

Adaptive Momentum and EMA-weighted Modeling for Imbalanced Label Distribution Learning

Yongbiao Gao (Qilu University of Technology), Guohua Lv (Qilu University of Technology)

CodeClassificationOptimizationImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the AMEMA framework, which addresses the issues of gradient vanishing and optimization imbalance in imbalanced label distribution learning by splitting the label distribution into dominant and non-dominant branches, and applying exponential moving average (EMA) dynamic reweighting and adaptive momentum allocation on each branch.

Adaptive Morph-Patch Transformer for Aortic Vessel Segmentation

Zhenxi Zhang (Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shoujun Zhou (Institute of Scientific Instrumentation, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeSegmentationTransformerBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Proposed an adaptive Morph-Patch Transformer (MPT) for aortic vessel segmentation, addressing the issues of vascular shape distortion and insufficient semantic hierarchy caused by the fixed-size rectangular patches in traditional Transformers.

Adaptive Theory of Mind for LLM-based Multi-Agent Coordination

Chunjiang Mu (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Shuyue Hu (Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelAgentic AITabular

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented an adaptive Theory of Mind (A-ToM) agent that dynamically estimates and matches the ToM levels of partners using large language models, thereby enhancing zero-shot multi-agent coordination performance.

Addressing Polarization and Unfairness in Performative Prediction

Kun Jin (University of Michigan), Xueru Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz)

CodeOptimizationData-Centric LearningImageTabular

🎯 What it does: This paper studies the impact of data distribution shifts caused by model deployment under the Performative Prediction framework on fairness, and proposes a Fair-PS solution.

Advanced Black-Box Tuning of Large Language Models with Limited API Calls

Zhikang Xie (Fudan University), Cheng Jin (Fudan University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyKnowledge DistillationLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a method that uses a Gaussian Process (GP) surrogate model to approximate the outputs of large language models under the premise of limited API calls, and uses this approximation to guide the training of the surrogate model, thereby achieving efficient black-box fine-tuning.

Advancing Protein Design via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Pareto-Based Collaborative Optimization

Mingming Zhu (Sun Yat-sen University), Yuedong Yang (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeOptimizationDrug DiscoveryTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningAgentic AIBiomedical DataBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the MAProt multi-agent framework, integrating structural models and protein language models for protein design;

AEDR: Training-Free AI-Generated Image Attribution via Autoencoder Double-Reconstruction

Chao Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), Kejiang Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeClassificationRecognitionAnomaly DetectionDiffusion modelAuto EncoderImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a training-agnostic, non-intrusive AI image source attribution method called AEDR, which uses dual autoencoder reconstruction and employs the ratio of reconstruction loss for attribution judgment.

AerialFusion: Co-Motion-Driven Unified Registration and Fusion on Multi-modal Data Streams from Aerial View

Junhui Qiu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Jiaqi Gui (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeConvolutional Neural NetworkGenerative Adversarial NetworkSimultaneous Localization and MappingMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a unified registration and fusion framework for multi-modal aerial visual streams based on collaborative motion, named AerialFusion, and constructed the EUM3D dataset.

AerialMind: Towards Referring Multi-Object Tracking in UAV Scenarios

Chenglizhao Chen (China University of Petroleum (East China)), Qing-Long Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeObject TrackingTransformerLarge Language ModelVideoTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the AerialMind large-scale UAV scenario referential multi-object tracking (RMOT) dataset, and developed a semi-automated collaborative annotation framework COALA and a novel tracking method HETrack

Agent Journey Beyond RGB: Hierarchical Semantic-Spatial Representation Enrichment for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Xuesong Zhang (Hefei University of Technology), Zhenzhen Hu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkTransformerReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelVision-Language-Action ModelContrastive LearningImageTextPoint Cloud

🎯 What it does: Propose a hierarchical semantic-spatial representation enhancement framework (SUSA), which improves environmental perception and instruction alignment in vision-language navigation through a text semantic view and a deep exploration graph.

AgentODRL: A Large Language Model-based Multi-agent System for ODRL Generation

Wanle Zhong (Renmin University of China), Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningAgentic AIText

🎯 What it does: Proposed AgentODRL, a multi-agent system that automatically converts natural language data into ODRL format using rules.

AgentSense: Virtual Sensor Data Generation Using LLM Agents in Simulated Home Environments

Zikang Leng (Georgia Institute of Technology), Thomas Plötz

CodeData SynthesisLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningAgentic AIPrompt EngineeringTime SeriesRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes AgentSense, which generates structured, privacy-preserving environmental sensor data by having LLM-driven virtual agents perform diversified daily activities in an extended VirtualHome simulation environment, used for training and pretraining human activity recognition (HAR) models.

AgentSwift: Efficient LLM Agent Design via Value-Guided Hierarchical Search

Yu Li (Tsinghua University), Fengli Xu (Tsinghua University)

CodeOptimizationNeural Architecture SearchLarge Language ModelAgentic AITextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the AgentSwift framework to achieve automated design of LLM agents, jointly optimizing workflows and pluggable functional modules (memory, tool usage, planning), and employing a value model and uncertainty-guided hierarchical MCTS for efficient search.

AgriEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Agricultural Benchmark for Large Language Models

Lian Yan (Harbin Institute of Technology), Jingchi Jiang (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelTextBenchmarkAgriculture RelatedRetrieval-Augmented GenerationChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose AgriEval, a large-scale Chinese agricultural domain evaluation benchmark covering 6 major categories and 29 subcategories, with a total of 14,697 multiple-choice questions and 2,167 open-ended questions.

AIR-DR: Adaptive Image Retargeting with Instance Relocation and Dual-guidance Repainting

Zhitong Dong (Southeast University), Hao Chen (Alibaba Group)

CodeGenerationTransformerDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: Proposes the AIR-DR framework, treating image aspect ratio adaptation as instance-level relayout to avoid pixel-level deletion, and combines adaptive decision-making with bidirectional guided background repainting to achieve high-quality, detail-preserving retargeting.

AirDDE: Multifactor Neural Delay Differential Equations for Air Quality Forecasting

Binqing Wu (Zhejiang University), Ling Chen (Zhejiang University)

CodeRecurrent Neural NetworkTabularTime SeriesPhysics RelatedOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes AirDDE, which is based on a neural delay differential equation framework, integrating multi-factor memory-enhanced attention and physics-guided delay evolution functions to achieve continuous-time air quality prediction.

AirWino: Optimized Winograd Convolution for Accelerating CNN Inference on ARMv8 Processors

Haoyuan Gui (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Huiyuan Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeComputational EfficiencyConvolutional Neural NetworkBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes AirWino, a high-performance Winograd convolution implementation targeting ARMv8-A processors, covering 2D and 3D convolutions, FP32/FP16 precision, 3×3 and 5×5 kernels, and achieving significant acceleration through multiple microkernels, double buffering, and custom data layouts.

Align When They Want, Complement When They Need! Human-Centered Ensembles for Adaptive Human-AI Collaboration

Hasan Amin (Purdue University), Rajiv Khanna (Purdue University)

CodeConvolutional Neural NetworkSupervised Fine-TuningImageTabularBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose a human-centric adaptive AI integration framework that can switch between alignment models and complementary models based on context in human-AI collaboration to achieve a balance between alignment and complementarity;

AlignCVC: Aligning Cross-View Consistency for Single-Image-to-3D Generation

Xinyue Liang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Lei Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisSupervised Fine-TuningDiffusion modelScore-based ModelImageMesh

🎯 What it does: Propose the AlignCVC framework, which jointly post-trains multi-view generation and reconstruction models, enhances cross-view consistency through distribution alignment, and compresses the 3D-aware sampling steps to 4 steps.

ALTER: Asymmetric LoRA for Token-Entropy-Guided Unlearning of LLMs

Xunlei Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Wenhong Tian (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China)

CodeSafty and PrivacyExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: Propose ALTER, a lightweight LLM unlearning framework based on heterogeneous LoRA and token-entropy guided selective forgetting, achieving knowledge forgetting without modifying the base model's weights.

Ambiguity-aware Truncated Flow Matching for Ambiguous Medical Image Segmentation

Fanding Li, Shuo Li (Harbin Institute Of Technology)

CodeSegmentationDiffusion modelFlow-based ModelBiomedical DataComputed Tomography

🎯 What it does: Proposed the Ambiguity-aware Truncated Flow Matching (ATFM) framework for simultaneously improving prediction accuracy and diversity in medical image segmentation.

Ambiguity-Tolerant Cross-Modal Hashing with Partial Labels

Chao Su (Sichuan University), Yuan Sun (Sichuan University)

CodeRetrievalRepresentation LearningContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper studies the partially labeled scenario in cross-modal retrieval, proposing a fuzzy-tolerant cross-modal hashing method called ATCH to address label ambiguity and modality alignment issues.

AMS-IO-Bench and AMS-IO-Agent: Benchmarking and Structured Reasoning for Analog and Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuit Input/Output Design

Zhishuai Zhang (Tsinghua University), Nan Sun (Princeton University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelAgentic AITextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes AMS-IO-Agent, a domain-specific agent based on large language models (LLMs), designed to convert natural language design intent into structured I/O subsystem generation, while simultaneously providing the AMS-IO-Bench evaluation benchmark.

An Adaptive Configuration-Aware Simulated Annealing for the Maximally Diverse Grouping Problem

Baiyu Chen (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Zhipeng Lü (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeOptimizationGraphBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose an Adaptive Configuration-Aware Simulated Annealing (ACSA) algorithm to solve the Maximum Diversity Grouping Problem (MDGP), achieving search through relaxed insertion, memory-based exchange, and vertex-level sequence coordination.

An Adaptive Sampling Framework for Diffusion-based Dataset Distillation with High Fidelity and Diversity

Sunbeom Jeong (Seoul National University), Jungwoo Lee (Seoul National University)

CodeData SynthesisKnowledge DistillationDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: This study proposes a dataset distillation framework based on diffusion models, which generates both faithful and diverse synthetic datasets by leveraging adaptive sampling (Bayesian optimization to select CFG scale and denoising strength) and repulsion regularization, without requiring fine-tuning of the diffusion model.

An Efficient and Harmonized Framework for Balanced Cross-Domain Feature Integration

Shaoxu Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Ye Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeImage TranslationSupervised Fine-TuningDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: Fine-tune Stable Diffusion using LoRA and achieve single-image style transfer through cross-model feature and attention injection, supporting mask-based local transfer and multi-style combinations

An Improved Privacy and Utility Analysis of Differentially Private SGD with Bounded Domain and Smooth Losses

Hao Liang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Hong Xing (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeOptimizationSafty and Privacy

🎯 What it does: This paper presents an improved analysis of privacy and utility for differential privacy stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD), particularly under bounded domains and smooth loss functions, revealing the convergence of privacy loss over iterations.

An LLM-based Quantitative Framework for Evaluating High-Stealthy Backdoor Risks in OSS Supply Chains

Zihe Yan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Guancheng Li (Tencent)

CodeAnomaly DetectionExplainability and InterpretabilityTransformerLarge Language ModelText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a fine-grained, attacker-perspective backdoor risk assessment framework with high stealthiness, combining large language models for semantic analysis to automatically evaluate backdoor risks in open-source software supply chains, and experimentally validates it on 66 high-priority packages in the Debian ecosystem.

An LLM-based Simulation Framework for Embodied Conversational Agents in Psychological Counseling

Lixiu Wu (Tsinghua University), Jiangtao Gong (Tsinghua University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Developed an 'ECAs' framework based on a large language model to simulate embodied dialogue agents in psychological counseling and generate high-fidelity, context-rich dialogue data.

Analyzing and Mitigating Object Hallucination: A Training Bias Perspective

Yifan Li (Renmin University of China), Jirong Wen

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically evaluates the object hallucination phenomenon caused by training data bias in large vision-language models by constructing the POPEv2 benchmark.

Anatomical Region-Guided Contrastive Decoding: A Plug-and-Play Strategy for Mitigating Hallucinations in Medical VLMs

Xiao Liang (Xidian University), Yuanyuan Shi (Chinese PLA General Hospital)

CodeTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelContrastive LearningBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Proposed an anatomy-region guided three-layer contrastive decoding (ARCD) framework to suppress hallucinations in medical vision-language models;

Anchor Watermark: Robust Attribution for Diffusion-based Text-to-Audio Model

Xianjin Rong (Hefei University of Technology), Donghui Hu (Hefei University of Technology)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisDiffusion modelAudio

🎯 What it does: In text-to-audio diffusion models, watermarks are embedded into the initial latent vector and extracted in real-time through optimization during reverse diffusion of the generated audio, achieving audio attribution without additional training.

Anchor-Driven Nyström for Deep Graph-Level Clustering

Jiaxin Wang (Hainan University), Yue Yang (Hainan University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyRepresentation LearningGraph Neural NetworkContrastive LearningGraph

🎯 What it does: Designed an end-to-end graph-level clustering framework named ANGC, combining GNN encoding with learnable Nyström anchors to compute kernel similarity.

Anchor-Guided Discriminative Subspace Alignment and Clustering for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Imagery

Yongshan Zhang (China University of Geosciences), Zhihua Cai (Wuhan University)

CodeDomain AdaptationImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed a cross-scenario hyperspectral image clustering framework (ADSAC), which obtains source scenario clustering labels through anchor-enhanced graph learning (APGL), then eliminates distribution shift by discriminative cross-scenario subspace alignment (DCSA), and infers target scenario labels using KNN in the aligned subspace.

AnchorDS: Anchoring Dynamic Sources for Semantically Consistent Text-to-3D Generation

Jiayin Zhu (National University of Singapore), Angela Yao (National University of Singapore)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisSupervised Fine-TuningDiffusion modelScore-based ModelImageTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the AnchorDS method, which improves text-to-3D generation through dynamic source anchoring.

Annealed Relaxation of Speculative Decoding for Faster Autoregressive Image Generation

Xingyao Li (National University Of Singapore), Hui Ji (National University Of Singapore)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: Proposes COOL-SD, an acceleration method for autoregressive image generation based on theoretical analysis, improving the relaxation acceptance strategy and resampling distribution of Speculative Decoding;

Anomagic: Crossmodal Prompt-driven Zero-shot Anomaly Generation

Yuxin Jiang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Yunkang Cao (Hunan University)

CodeGenerationAnomaly DetectionPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelDiffusion modelContrastive LearningImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: The study proposes a zero-shot anomaly generation framework that utilizes cross-modal prompts (visual + text) to drive Stable Diffusion for generating anomalous images in painting;

AnoStyler: Text-Driven Localized Anomaly Generation via Lightweight Style Transfer

Yulim So (Sungkyunkwan University), Seokho Kang (Sungkyunkwan University)

CodeGenerationAnomaly DetectionConvolutional Neural NetworkImageText

🎯 What it does: Propose a lightweight zero-shot anomaly generation method, AnoStyler, which generates high-quality and diverse anomaly images on a single normal image by utilizing text-guided local style transfer;

Answering the Unanswerable Is to Err Knowingly: Analyzing and Mitigating Abstention Failures in Large Reasoning Models

Yi Liu (Nanjing University), Wei Hu (Nanjing University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionExplainability and InterpretabilityComputational EfficiencyTransformerPrompt EngineeringTextChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: This paper analyzes the failure of large reasoning models to deny unsolvable problems and proposes a two-phase cognitive monitoring and intervention method during reasoning.

Anti-adversarial Learning: Desensitizing Prompts for Large Language Model

Xuan Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Beijun Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeSafty and PrivacyTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringText

🎯 What it does: Propose PromptObfus, a method for desensitizing LLM prompts through 'oppositional adversarial learning,' replacing sensitive words to make them unrecognizable to humans while preserving the original task output.

AntiDote: Bi-level Adversarial Training for Tamper-Resistant LLMs

Debdeep Sanyal (KIIT Bhubaneswar), Murari Mandal (KIIT Bhubaneswar)

CodeOptimizationSafty and PrivacyAdversarial AttackTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningText

🎯 What it does: Propose the AntiDote method, which trains LLMs through bi-level optimization to make them resistant to malicious fine-tuning.

Any2Critical: Safety-Critical Scenario Generation from Arbitrary Real-World Driving Contexts

Yao Huang (Beihang University), Xingxing Wei (Beihang University)

CodeData SynthesisAutonomous DrivingTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodalityRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Generate safety-critical (collision) test scenarios from any real driving scene, ensuring both diversity and behavioral plausibility.

Any2RSI: Controllable Remote Sensing Text-to-Image Generation via Any Control and Enriched Description

Xu Zhang (Wuhan University), Lefei Zhang (Wuhan University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelDiffusion modelContrastive LearningMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the Any2RSI framework, enabling the flexible combination of multiple spatial controls for remote sensing text-to-image generation;