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Mesh watermark embeds secret messages in 3D meshes and decodes the message from watermarked meshes for ownership verification. Current watermarking methods directly hide secret messages in vertex and face sets of meshes. However, mesh is a discrete representation that uses vertex and face sets to describe a continuous signal, which can be discretized in other discrete representations with different vertex and face sets. This raises the question of whether the watermark can still be verified on the different discrete representations of the watermarked mesh. We conduct this research in an attack-then-defense manner by proposing a novel function space mesh watermark removal attack FuncEvade and then mitigating it through function space mesh watermarking FuncMark. In detail, FuncEvade generates a different discrete representation of a watermarked mesh by extracting it from the signed distance function of the watermarked mesh. We observe that the generated mesh can evade ALL previous watermarking methods. FuncMark mitigates FuncEvade by watermarking signed distance function through message-guided deformation. Such deformation can survive isosurfacing and thus be inherited by the extracted meshes for further watermark decoding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FuncEvade achieves 100% evasion rate among all previous watermarking methods while achieving only 0.3% evasion rate on FuncMark. Besides, our FuncMark performs similarly on other metrics compared to state-of-the-art mesh watermarking methods.

AAAI 2025

Mesh Watermark Removal Attack and Mitigation: A Novel Perspective of Function Space

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.

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-24 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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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.



Large Language Models (LLMs) offer groundbreaking advancements in recommender systems through superior text analysis and decision-making support. However, integrating LLMs into recommender systems still suffers from the problems of  identifier uninterpretability and lack of transparency. To address these issues and fully leverage the capabilities of LLMs, we propose a chain of thought (CoT) based recommendation  framework called CoT4Rec which employs LLMs as data enhancers for user preference analysis. Initially, we design a CoT reasoning strategy that can derive more behaviorally-aligned user preference features by clustering users’ historical interactions. Subsequently, we propose a two-stage recommendation model that not only makes full use of the world knowledge embedded in LLMs but also generates a logically transparent reasoning path. By integrating a user preference analyzer early in the recommendation pipeline, the model deeply analyzes users' historical interactions, helping to enhance the personalization and transparency of the recommender system. CoT4Rec demonstrates superior performance over existing state-of-the-art models in recommendation tasks across four public datasets, achieving improvements ranging from 2.2% to 12.2%. The source code is available at https://github.com/815382636/CoT4Rec.

CoT4Rec: Revealing User Preferences through Chain of Thought for Recommender Systems

Multi-view unsupervised feature selection (MUFS) has received considerable attention in recent years. Existing MUFS methods for processing unlabeled incomplete multi-view data, where some samples are missing in certain views, first impute the missing values and then perform feature selection on the completed dataset. However, treating imputation and feature selection as two separate processes overlooks their potential interactions. The graph-guided local structure gleaned from feature selection can aid in imputation, which in turn can enhance the feature selection performance. Additionally, most similarity graph-based MUFS methods suffer from high computational costs. To address these problems, we propose a novel MUFS method, termed Tensorial Incomplete Multi-view unsupErvised Feature Selection (TIME-FS). TIME-FS unifies missing value recovery, discriminative feature selection, and low-dimensional representation learning within a joint framework through matrix decomposition. Then, TIME-FS conducts  CP decomposition on tensor data formed by the low-dimensional representations of different views to learn a consistent anchor graph across views and a view-preference weight matrix, both of which simultaneously guide missing view imputation and feature selection. Furthermore, an efficient algorithm with low time complexity and rapid convergence is proposed to solve TIME-FS. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of TIME-FS over state-of-the-art methods.

TIME-FS: Joint Learning of Tensorial Incomplete Multi-View Unsupervised Feature Selection and Missing-View Imputation

Large language models (LLMs) provide a promising way for accurate session-based recommendation (SBR), but they demand substantial computational time and memory. Knowledge distillation (KD)-based methods can alleviate these issues by transferring the knowledge to a small student, which trains a student based on the predictions of a cumbersome teacher. However, these methods encounter difficulties for LLM-based KD in SBR. 1) It is expensive to make LLMs predict for all instances in KD. 2) LLMs may make ineffective predictions for some instances in KD, e.g., incorrect predictions for hard instances or similar predictions as existing recommenders for easy instances. In this paper, we propose an active LLM-based KD method in SBR, contributing to sustainable AI. To efficiently distill knowledge from LLMs with limited cost, we propose to extract a small proportion of instances predicted by LLMs. Meanwhile, for a more effective distillation, we propose an active learning strategy to extract instances that are as effective as possible for KD from a theoretical view. Specifically, we first formulate gains based on potential effects (e.g., effective, similar, and incorrect predictions by LLMs) and difficulties (e.g., easy or hard to fit) of instances for KD. Then, we propose to maximize the minimal gains of distillation to find the optimal selection policy for active learning, which can largely avoid extracting ineffective instances in KD. Experiments on real-world datasets show that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods for SBR.

Active Large Language Model-Based Knowledge Distillation for Session-Based Recommendation

In the coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging system, Deep Unfolding Networks (DUNs) have made impressive progress in recovering 3D hyperspectral images (HSIs) from a single 2D measurement.  However, the inherent nonlinear and ill-posed characteristics of HSI reconstruction still pose challenges to existing methods in terms of accuracy and stability. To address this issue, we propose a Mamba-inspired Joint Unfolding Network (MiJUN) to incorporate physics-embedded DUNs and learning-based HSI imaging. Firstly, leveraging the concept of trapezoid discretization to expand the representation space of unfolding networks, we introduce an accelerated unfolding network scheme. This approach can be interpreted as a generalized accelerated half-quadratic splitting with a second-order differential equation, which reduces the reliance on initial optimization stages and addresses challenges related to long-range interactions.
Crucially, within the Mamba framework, we restructure the Mamba-inspired global-to-local attention mechanism, incorporating a selective state space model and an attention mechanism. This effectively reinterprets Mamba as a variant of the Transformer architecture, improving its adaptability and efficiency. Furthermore, we refine the scanning strategy with Mamba by integrating the tensor mode-$k$ unfolding into the Mamba network. This approach emphasizes the low-rank properties of tensors along various modes, while conveniently facilitating 12 scanning directions. Numerical and visual comparisons on both simulation and real datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed MiJUN, and achieving overwhelming detail representation. The code will be released soon.

Detail Matters: Mamba-Inspired Joint Unfolding Network for Snapshot Spectral Compressive Imaging

Drug Target Interaction (DTI) prediction has witnessed promising performance boosts accompanied by advanced multimodal feature extraction. However, existing approaches suffer from two main difficulties. First, the complex protein structures cannot be well represented by current protein-sequence-based feature extractors. Second, the gap between protein and drug features increases the vulnerability of the obtained classifier thus degrading the prediction robustness. To address these issues, we propose a novel R-DTI method by exploring the second-order relevance in both protein structural feature extraction and DTI prediction phases. Specifically, we construct a pre-trained structural feature extractor that mines the atomic relevance of each amino acid. Then, an inter-feature structure-preserved Riemannian network is designed to expand the existing protein extraction patterns. To improve the prediction robustness, we also develop a Riemannian classifier that uses the second-order protein-drug relevance with a unified feature space. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the merits and superiority of our R-DTI against the state-of-the-art, achieving 1.4\% and 1.9\% higher AUC-ROC on the BindingDB and DrugBank datasets, respectively.

R-DTI: Drug Target Interaction Prediction Based on Second-Order Relevance Exploration

Fashion design is a challenging and complex process. Recent works on fashion generation and editing are all agnostic of the actual fashion design process, which limits their usage in practice. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical diffusion-based framework tailored for fashion design, coined as HieraFashDiff. Our model is designed to mimic the practical fashion design workflow, by unraveling the denosing process into two successive stages: 1) an ideation stage that generates design proposals given high-level concepts and 2) an iteration stage that continuously refines the proposals using low-level attributes. Our model supports fashion design generation and fine-grained local editing in a single framework. To train our model, we contribute a new dataset of full-body fashion images annotated with hierarchical text descriptions. Extensive evaluations show that, as compared to prior approaches, our method can generate fashion designs and edited results with higher fidelity and better prompt adherence, showing its promising potential to augment the practical fashion design workflow.

HieraFashDiff: Hierarchical Fashion Design with Multi-stage Diffusion Models

With the availability of egocentric 3D hand-object interaction datasets, there is increasing interest in developing unified models for hand-object pose estimation and action recognition. However, existing methods still struggle to recognise seen actions on unseen objects due to the limitations in representing object shape and movement using 3D bounding boxes. Additionally, the reliance on object templates at test time limits their generalisability to unseen objects. To address these challenges, we propose to leverage superquadrics as an alternative 3D object representation to bounding boxes and demonstrate their effectiveness on both template-free object reconstruction and action recognition tasks. Moreover, as we find that pure appearance-based methods can outperform the unified methods, the potential benefits from 3D geometric information remain unclear. Therefore, we study the compositionality of actions by considering a more challenging task where the training combinations of verbs and nouns do not overlap with the testing split. We extend H2O and FPHA datasets with compositional splits and design a novel collaborative learning framework that can explicitly reason about the geometric relations between hands and the manipulated object. Through extensive quantitative and qualitative evaluations, we demonstrate significant improvements over the state-of-the-arts in (compositional) action recognition.

Collaborative Learning for 3D Hand-Object Reconstruction and Compositional Action Recognition from Egocentric RGB Videos Using Superquadrics

Distributed machine learning (DML) is promising for training large models on  large datasets. In DML, multiple workers collaborate on the training of neural  networks, significantly reducing the time required for neural network training. The  efficiency of DML is heavily influenced by communication, making it crucial to balance the trade-off between communication cost and model performance in current  research. Local methods are excellent at reducing communication costs, yet face  degradation in accuracy and generalizability. Indeed, global knowledge is valuable  for improving performance in local methods. However, the theoretical analysis  of global knowledge validity is lacking, and global knowledge can currently only  be used in the global aggregation of local methods due to communication limitations and staleness. To this end, in this paper, we establish the mechanism  of global knowledge guidance and propose Adaptive Global Knowledge Guided  Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (AdaGK-SGD) to extend the guidance of  global knowledge to the whole distributed training process without any additional  communication. Specifically, we define the maximum lifetime of global knowledge based on the mechanism, and establish a correlation between the maximum  lifetime and the validity of global knowledge to circumvent the adverse effects  of global knowledge staleness. The Maximum Lifetime of Global Knowledge  module of our algorithm can be applied separately to other algorithms. In addition,  considering the application, we provide a straightforward and efficient strategy for  achieving the maximum lifetime adaptive setting. We establish the convergence  rate of AdaGK-SGD for convex and non-convex scenarios. Numerically, we find  that AdaGK-SGD can significantly improve the accuracy and generalizability of  distributed algorithms compared with existing methods.

AdaGK-SGD: Adaptive Global Knowledge Guided Distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent

With the continuous improvement of device imaging resolution, the popularity of Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) images is increasing. Unfortunately, existing methods for fusing multi-exposure images in dynamic scenes are designed for low-resolution images, which makes them inefficient for generating high-quality UHD images on a resource-constrained device. To alleviate the limitations of extremely long-sequence inputs, inspired by the Large Language Model (LLM) for processing infinitely long texts, we propose a novel learning paradigm to achieve UHD multi-exposure dynamic scene image fusion on a single consumer-grade GPU, named Infinite Pixel Learning (IPL). The design of our approach comes from three key components: The first step is to slice the input sequences to relieve the pressure generated by the model processing the data stream; Second, we develop an attention cache technique, which is similar to the KV cache for infinite data stream processing; Finally, we design a method for attention cache compression to alleviate the storage burden of the cache on the device. In addition, we provide a new UHD benchmark to evaluate the effectiveness of our method. Extensive experimental results show that our method maintains high-quality visual performance while fusing UHD dynamic multi-exposure images in real-time (>40fps) on a single consumer-grade GPU.

Ultra-High-Definition Dynamic Multi-Exposure Image Fusion via Infinite Pixel Learning

Adversarial examples’ (AE) transferability refers to the phenomenon that AEs crafted with one surrogate model can also fool other models. Notwithstanding remarkable progress in untargeted transferability, its targeted counterpart remains challenging. This paper proposes an $everywhere$ scheme to boost targeted transferability. Our idea is to attack a victim image both globally and locally. We aim to optimize ‘an army of targets’ in every local image region instead of previous works that optimize a high-confidence target in the image. Specifically, we split a victim image into non-overlap blocks and jointly mount a targeted attack on each block. Such a strategy mitigates transfer failures caused by attention inconsistency between surrogate and victim models and thus results in stronger transferability. Our approach is method-agnostic, which means it can be easily combined with existing transferable attacks for even higher transferability. Extensive experiments on ImageNet demonstrate that the proposed approach universally improves the state-of-the-art targeted attacks by a clear margin, e.g., the transferability of the widely adopted Logit attack can be improved by 28.8%~300%. We also evaluate the crafted AEs on a real-world platform: Google Cloud Vision. Results further support the superiority of the proposed method.

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