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Generative retrieval constitutes an innovative approach in information retrieval, leveraging generative language models(LM) to generate a ranked list of document identifiers (docid) for a given query. It simplifies the retrieval pipeline by replacing the large external index with model parameters. However, existing works merely learned the relationship between queries and document identifiers, which is unable to directly represent the relevance between queries and documents. To address the above problem, we propose a novel and general generative retrieval framework, namely Leveraging Document-Oriented Contrastive Learning in Generative Retrieval (DOGR), which leverages contrastive learning to improve generative retrieval tasks. It adopts a two-stage learning strategy that captures the relationship between queries and documents comprehensively through direct interactions. Furthermore, negative sampling methods and corresponding contrastive learning objectives are implemented to enhance the learning of semantic representations, thereby promoting a thorough comprehension of the relationship between queries and documents. Experimental results demonstrate that DOGR achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to existing generative retrieval methods on two public benchmark datasets. Further experiments have shown that our framework is generally effective for common identifier construction techniques.

AAAI 2025

DOGR: Leveraging Document-Oriented Contrastive Learning in Generative Retrieval

We are pleased to announce the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24), which will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia at the Vancouver Convention Centre – West Building from 20-27 February, 2024.

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AAAI 2024

The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. 

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We are pleased to announce the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), which will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from February 25 to March 4, 2025.

The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and a range of other activities to be announced.

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The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and a range of other activities to be announced.



Incomplete multi-view clustering is a challenging task that
perform partition on multi-view data with missing views.
Previous methods directly recover missing instances or fill
in incomplete similarity matrices. However, most of them
suffer from the following limitations: (1) multi-view fusion
and completion are conducted before spectral analysis, resulting
in sub-optimal clustering performance. (2) The complex
optimization process requires heavy computational burden,
limiting their scalability to large-scale problems. In this
paper, we propose a highly efficient rotation-invariant spectral
embedding (RISE) method for scalable incomplete multiview
clustering. Specifically, RISE learns incomplete viewspecific
embeddings from bipartite graphs with incomplete
structural information. Meanwhile, the complete consensus
representation with second-order rotation-invariant property
is recovered from the incomplete view-specific embeddings.
Moreover, we design a fast alternating optimization algorithm
with linear complexity and promising convergence to solve
the proposed formulation. Extensive experiments on multiple
datasets demonstrate the effectiveness, scalability and efficiency
of RISE compared to the state-of-the-art methods.

Highly Efficient Rotation-Invariant Spectral Embedding for Scalable Incomplete Multi-View Clustering

Point-based interactive colorization techniques allow users to effortlessly colorize grayscale images using user-provided color hints. However, point-based methods often face challenges when different colors are given to semantically similar areas, leading to color intermingling and unsatisfactory results—an issue we refer to as color collapse. The fundamental cause of the color collapse is the inadequacy of points for defining the boundaries for each color. To mitigate color collapse, we introduce a lasso tool that can control the scope of each color hint. Additionally, we design a framework that leverages the user-provided lassos to localize the attention masks. The experimental results show that using a single lasso is as effective as applying 4.18 individual color hints and can achieve the desired outcomes in 30% less time than using points alone.

Enabling Region-Specific Control via Lassos in Point-Based Colorization

We propose a transformation diffusion model for point cloud registration to balance precision and efficiency. Our method formulates point cloud registration as a denoising diffusion process from noisy transformation to object transformation, which is represented by quaternion and translation. Specifically, in training stage, object transformation diffuses from ground-truth transformation to random distribution, and the model learns to reverse this noising process. In sampling stage, the model refines randomly generated transformation to the optimal transformation in a progressive way. We derive the variational bound in closed form for training and provide instantiation of the model. Our diffusion model maps transformation into latent space, and splits the transformation into two components (rotation and translation) based on the fact that they belong to different solution spaces. In addition, our work provides the following crucial findings: (i) Point cloud registration, one of the representative discriminative tasks, can be solved by a generative way and mapped into latent space to obtain new unified probabilistic formulation. (ii) Our model, Transformation Diffusion Model (TDM) can be a plug-and-play agent for point cloud registration, making our method applicable to different deep registration networks. Experimental results on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that, in correspondence-free and correspondence-based scenarios, TDM can both achieve exceeding 60% performance improvements and higher efficiency simultaneously.

Where Precision Meets Efficiency: Transformation Diffusion Model for Point Cloud Registration

Personalized text-to-image generation methods can generate customized images based on the reference images, which have garnered wide research interest. Recent methods propose a finetuning-free approach with a decoupled cross-attention mechanism to generate personalized images requiring no test-time finetuning. However, when multiple reference images are provided, the current decoupled cross-attention mechanism encounters the object confusion problem and fails to map each reference image to its corresponding object, thereby seriously limiting its scope of application. To address the object confusion problem, in this work we investigate the relevance of different positions of the latent image features to the target object in diffusion model, and accordingly propose a weighted-merge method to merge multiple reference image features into the corresponding objects. Next, we integrate this weighted-merge method into existing pre-trained models and continue to train the model on a multi-object dataset constructed from the open-sourced SA-1B dataset. To mitigate object confusion and reduce training costs, we propose an object quality score to estimate the image quality for the selection of high-quality training samples. Furthermore, our weighted-merge training framework can be employed on single-object generation when a single object has multiple reference images. The experiments verify that our method achieves superior performance to the state-of-the-arts on the Concept101 dataset and DreamBooth dataset of multi-object personalized image generation, and remarkably improves the performance on single-object personalized image generation. Our code will be made available soon.

Resolving Multi-Condition Confusion for Finetuning-Free Personalized Image Generation

Trajectory generation has garnered significant attention from researchers in the field of spatio-temporal analysis, as it can generate substantial synthesized human mobility trajectories that enhance user privacy and alleviate data scarcity. However, existing trajectory generation methods often focus on improving trajectory generation quality from a singular perspective, lacking a comprehensive semantic understanding across various scales. Consequently, we are inspired to develop a HOlistic SEmantic Representation (HOSER) framework for navigational trajectory generation. Given an origin and destination (OD) pair and the starting time point of a latent trajectory, we first propose a Road Network Encoder to expand the receptive field of road- and zone-level semantics. Second, we design a Multi-Granularity Trajectory Encoder to integrate the spatio-temporal semantics of the generated trajectory at both the point and trajectory levels. Finally, we employ a Destination-Oriented Navigator to seamlessly integrate destination-oriented guidance. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that HOSER outperforms state-of-the-art baselines by a significant margin. The excellent performance demonstrated with minimal training data further verifies the effectiveness of our holistic semantic representation. Our code will be made publicly available.

Holistic Semantic Representation for Navigational Trajectory Generation

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant progress in mathematical reasoning, especially in elementary math. However, they remain indisposed on tackling complex questions at high-school or college levels, which put forward a more advanced requirement of mastering relevant mathematical theorems. For we humans, whether selecting the appropriate theorems according to the provided question is a crucial factor affecting the quality of the ultimate solutions, yet which has been neglected by previous research in the field of LLM reasoning. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance the LLM's capability of utilizing the mathematical theorems to specific problems, which we refer to as Theorem Rationale (TR). To this end, a new dataset encompassing problem-theorem-solution triples is deliberately established for transferring principles of TR. Furthermore, we develop an evolving strategy to boost hierarchical instructions oriented on the theorems to alleviate difficulty in acquiring the curated data and facilitate the digestion of theorem application from various perspectives. Evaluations on a wide range of public datasets exhibit that the model fine-tuned with our dataset achieves consistent improvements at varying mathematical levels compared to the backbone. And further ablation studies illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed evolutionary strategies on enhancing the model's capability of math problem-solving. Overall, extensive experiments reveal the potential of our proposed method which highlights the significance of aligning the problems with the concrete theorems for LLMs to alleviate hallucination and improve the models' mathematical reasoning capabilities.

Learning Theorem Rationale for Improving the Mathematical Reasoning Capability of Large Language Models

Lyric-to-melody generation aims to automatically create melodies based on given lyrics, requiring the capture of complex and subtle correlations between them. However, previous works usually suffer from two main challenges: 1) lyric-melody alignment modeling, which is often simplified to one-syllable/word-to-one-note alignment, while others have the problem of low alignment accuracy; 2) lyric-melody harmony modeling, which usually relies heavily on intermediates or strict rules, limiting model's capabilities and generative diversity. In this paper, we propose SongGLM, a lyric-to-melody generation system that leverages 2D alignment encoding and multi-task pre-training based on the General Language Model (GLM) to guarantee the alignment and harmony between lyrics and melodies. Specifically, 1) we introduce a unified symbolic song representation for lyrics and melodies with word-level and phrase-level (2D) alignment encoding to capture the lyric-melody alignment; 2) we design a multi-task pre-training framework with hierarchical blank infilling objectives (n-gram, phrase, and long span), and incorporate lyric-melody relationships into the extraction of harmonized n-grams to ensure the lyric-melody harmony. We also construct a large-scale lyric-melody paired dataset comprising over 200,000 English song pieces for pre-training and fine-tuning. The objective and subjective results indicate that SongGLM can generate melodies from lyrics with significant improvements in both alignment and harmony, outperforming all the previous baseline methods.

SongGLM: Lyric-to-Melody Generation with 2D Alignment Encoding and Multi-Task Pre-Training

Offline reinforcement learning faces the challenge of distributional shift due to learning policy from static datasets. Current methods primarily deal with this issue by closely aligning the learned policy with the behavior policy or conservatively estimating Q-values for out-of-distribution (OOD) actions. However, these approaches can result in overly pessimistic estimates of Q-values of the OOD actions in unfamiliar situations, leading to a suboptimal policy. To address this, we propose a new method called Dynamic Uncertainty estimation for offline Reinforcement Learning. This method introduces a base density-truncated OOD data sampling approach to reduce the impact of extrapolation errors on uncertainty estimation. It allows for conservative estimation of Q-values for OOD actions while avoiding negative impacts on in-distribution data. We also develop a dynamic uncertainty estimation mechanism to prevent excessive pessimism and enhance the generalization of the Q-function. This mechanism dynamically adjusts the degree of pessimism in the Q-function by minimizing the error between target and estimated values. Our method outperforms existing algorithms, as demonstrated by experimental results based on the D4RL benchmark, and proves its superiority in addressing the distributional shift challenge.

Dynamic Uncertainty Estimation for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Tool learning enables the Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with the external environment by invoking tools, enriching the accuracy and capability scope of LLMs. However, previous works predominantly focus on improving model's tool-utilizing accuracy and the ability to generalize to new, unseen tools, excessively forcing LLMs to adjust specific tool-invoking pattern without considering the harm to model's general performance. This deviates from the actual applications and original intention of integrating tools to enhance model. To tackle this problem, we dissect the capability trade-offs by examining the hidden representation changes and the gradient-based importance score of model's components. Based on the analysis result, we propose a Component Importance-based Tool-utilizing ability Injection method (CITI). According to the gradient-based importance score of different components, it alleviates the capability conflicts caused by fine-tuning process by applying distinct training strategies to different components. CITI applies Mixture-Of-LoRA (MOLoRA) for important components. Meanwhile, it fine-tunes the parameters of few components deemed less important in the backbone of the LLM, while keeping other parameters frozen. CITI can effectively enhance the model's tool-utilizing capability without excessively compromising its general performance. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves outstanding performance across a range of evaluation metrics.

CITI: Enhancing Tool Utilizing Ability in Large Language Models without Sacrificing General Performance

Although diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the field of image generation, their latent space remains under-explored. Current methods for identifying semantics within latent space often rely on external supervision, such as textual information and segmentation masks. In this paper, we propose a method to identify semantic attributes in the latent space of pre-trained diffusion models without any further training. By projecting the Jacobian of the targeted semantic region into a low-dimensional subspace which is orthogonal to the non-masked regions, our approach facilitates precise semantic discovery and control over local masked areas, eliminating the need for annotations. We conducted extensive experiments across multiple datasets and various architectures of diffusion models, achieving state-of-the-art performance. In particular, for some specific face attributes, the performance of our proposed method even surpasses that of supervised approaches, demonstrating its superior ability in editing local image properties.

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