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Artificial intelligence has made significant strides in reasoning
over complex structured multimodal and multilingual
data, addressing critical challenges in domains such as finance
and healthcare. This abstract highlights key advancements
in tabular reasoning, temporal analysis, and structured
multimodal reasoning.
One major contributions include TempTabQA (Gupta
et al. 2023), a benchmark for temporal question answering;
novel methods to enhance temporal reasoning in large
language models (LLMs); and a framework for evaluating
mathematical reasoning in financial documents (Srivastava
et al. 2024). These works establish robust approaches for interpreting
time-sensitive and quantitative data. Building on
this foundation, we have developed hybrid SQL-text adaptive
reasoning models, H-STAR, and knowledge-aware reasoning
techniques for semi-structured tables (Mathur et al.
2024), enabling precise and efficient handling of complex
queries.
In the vision-language domain, our contributions include
advancements in spatial reasoning for geographic
data, MAPWise (Mukhopadhyay et al. 2024b), methods
to improve robustness in chart interpretation, FlowVQA
(Singh et al. 2024), and evaluations of LLMs’ ability
to understand visual data, such as charts, RobustCQA
(Mukhopadhyay et al. 2024a). Furthermore, we have addressed
challenges in multilingual and cross-modal robustness
through innovations in multilingual table synchronization,
InfoSync(Khincha et al. 2023), concurrent robustness
evaluation across languages and modalities (Gupta et al.
2024), and numerical reasoning in tabular data (Akhtar et al.
2023).
Our future work focuses on enhancing reasoning for dynamically
evolving data through hybrid LLM-SQL queries,
symbolic query generation, and multi-table retrieval. We
also aim to address challenges in interpreting hierarchical
structures, complex multiple charts, and diverse map types,
while advancing the analysis of real-world multimodal data.
Additionally, we seek to improve table generation for both
closed-book and open-book scenarios and refine evaluation
frameworks for structured data tasks.
These efforts highlight AI’s potential to tackle

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Advancements in AI for Reasoning with Complex Data

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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.



Tâtonnement is a simple, intuitive market process where prices are iteratively adjusted based on the difference between demand and supply. Many variants under different market assumptions have been studied and shown to converge to a market equilibrium, in some cases at a fast rate. However, the classical case of linear Fisher markets have long eluded the analyses, and it remains unclear whether tâtonnement converges in this case. We show that, for a sufficiently small stepsize, the prices given by the tâtonnement process are guaranteed to converge to equilibrium prices, up to a small approximation radius that depends on the stepsize. To achieve this, we consider the dual Eisenberg-Gale convex program in the price space, view tâtonnement as subgradient descent on this convex program, and utilize novel last-iterate convergence results for subgradient descent under error bound conditions. In doing so, we show that the convex program satisfies a particular error bound condition, the quadratic growth condition, and that the price sequence generated by tâtonnement is bounded above and away from zero. We also show that a similar convergence result holds for tâtonnement in quasi-linear Fisher markets. Numerical experiments are conducted to demonstrate that the theoretical linear convergence aligns with empirical observations.

On the Convergence of Tâtonnement for Linear Fisher Markets

Image forgery localization (IFL) is a crucial technique for preventing tampered image misuse and protecting social safety. However, due to the rapid development of image tampering technologies, extracting more comprehensive and accurate forgery clues remains an urgent challenge. To address these challenges, we introduce a novel information-theoretic IFL framework named SUMI-IFL that imposes sufficiency-view and minimality-view constraints on forgery feature representation. First, grounded in the theoretical analysis of mutual information, the sufficiency-view constraint is enforced on the feature extraction network to ensure that the latent forgery feature contains comprehensive forgery clues. Considering that forgery clues obtained from a single aspect alone may be incomplete, we construct the latent forgery feature by integrating several orthogonal individual image features. Second, based on the information bottleneck, the minimality-view constraint is imposed on the feature reasoning network to achieve an accurate and concise forgery feature representation that counters the interference of task-unrelated features. Extensive experiments show the superior performance of SUMI-IFL to existing state-of-the-art methods, not only on in-dataset comparisons but also on cross-dataset comparisons.

SUMI-IFL: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Image Forgery Localization with Sufficiency and Minimality Constraints

Screen-shooting robust watermarking is an effective means of preventing screen content leakage, as it can trace the leaked source through the watermark extraction thereby providing an effective deterrent. However, current screen-shooting resilient watermarking schemes are limited to scenarios where the watermarked image is fully captured, technically because they need the contours of the image to synchronize the watermarked area. While in practical applications, it's common for only a portion of the image to be captured. In this scenario, none of the previous schemes can be applied. To address this problem, we propose the RoPaSS: a robust watermarking scheme for partial screen-shooting, which effectively constructs symmetric characteristics on the embedding watermark to handle the re-synchronization issue. Specifically, RoPaSS consists of a watermark encoder, a decoder, and three estimators, which are trained in two stages. In the first training stage, RoPaSS integrates the flipping operation into the watermark encoder and decoder training to increase the redundancy of watermark messages and artificially guide the generation of symmetric watermarks. In the second stage, aiming to resynchronize the partially captured watermarked image, estimators utilize the watermark symmetry as an additional reference to estimate the restoration parameters of homography transformation. Experiments have demonstrated the excellent performance of RoPaSS in partial screen-shooting traceability, with extraction accuracy of above 93% in frontal shooting and above 86% in 30° shooting even if only 50% of the image content is captured.

RoPaSS: Robust Watermarking for Partial Screen-Shooting Scenarios

The rapid spread of information in the digital age highlights the critical need for effective fact-checking tools, particularly for languages with limited resources, such as Vietnamese. In response to this challenge, we introduce ViFactCheck, the first publicly available benchmark dataset designed specifically for Vietnamese fact-checking across multiple online news domains. This dataset contains 7,232 human-annotated pairs of claim-evidence combinations sourced from reputable Vietnamese online news, covering 12 diverse topics. It has been subjected to a meticulous annotation process to ensure high quality and reliability, achieving a Fleiss Kappa inter-annotator agreement score of 0.83. Our evaluation leverages state-of-the-art pre-trained and large language models, employing fine-tuning and prompting techniques to assess performance. Notably, the Gemma model demonstrated superior effectiveness, with an impressive macro F1 score of 89.90%, thereby establishing a new standard for fact-checking benchmarks. This result highlights the robust capabilities of Gemma in accurately identifying and verifying facts in Vietnamese. To further promote advances in fact-checking technology and improve the reliability of digital media, we have made the ViFactCheck dataset, model checkpoints, fact-checking pipelines, and source code freely available on GitHub. This initiative aims to inspire further research and enhance the accuracy of information in low-resource languages.

ViFactCheck: A New Benchmark Dataset and Methods for Multi-Domain News Fact-Checking In Vietnamese

With the rise of social media and Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN), check-in data across platforms has become crucial for User Identity Linkage (UIL). These data not only reveal users' spatio-temporal information but also provide insights into their behavior patterns and interests. However, cross-platform identity linkage faces challenges like poor data quality, high sparsity, and noise interference, which hinder existing methods from extracting cross-platform user information. To address these issues, we propose a Correlation-Attention Masked Transformer for User Identity Link age Network (MT-Link), a transformer-based framework to enhance model performance by learning spatio-temporal co-occurrence patterns of cross-platform users. Our model effectively captures spatio-temporal co-occurrence in cross-platform user check-in sequences. It employs a correlation attention mechanism to detect the spatio-temporal co-occurrence between user check-in sequences. Guided by attention weight maps, the model focuses on co-occurrence points while filtering out noise, ultimately improving classification performance. Experimental results show that our model significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines by 12.92%-17.76% and 5.80%-8.38% improvements in terms of Macro-F1 and Area Under Curve (AUC). The source code of our method is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/model-EDDA.

Correlation-Attention Masked Temporal Transformer for User Identity Linkage Using Heterogeneous Mobility Data

Event-based semantic segmentation (ESS) has attracted much attention recently, as event cameras can solve problems such as under/over-exposure or motion blur that are usually difficult for RGB cameras to handle. However, event data are noisy and extremely sparse, resulting in difficulties for the learning model to locate and extract reliable cues from their sparse representations for downstream tasks, especially when performing pixel-level tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel learning framework ESEG to alleviate the above dilemma. Given that event signals relate closely to moving edges, instead of proposing complex learning structures to expect them to recognize those reliable edge regions behind event signals on their own, we introduce the explicit edge-semantic supervision as a reference to force the ESS model to globally optimize semantics considering the high confidence of event data in edge regions. In addition, we propose a fusion module named Density-Aware Dynamic-Window Cross Attention Fusion (D\textsuperscript{2}CAF), in which the density perception, cross-attention, and dynamic window masking mechanisms are jointly imposed to optimize edge-dense feature fusion considering the characteristics of event cameras. Experimental results on DSEC and DDD17 datasets demonstrate the efficacy of the ESEG and its core designs. The code and generated semantic edge labels will be released upon acceptance.

ESEG: Event-Based Segmentation Boosted by Explicit Edge-Semantic Guidance

In this paper, we propose an efficient, fast, and versatile distillation method to accelerate the generation of pre-trained diffusion models. The method reaches state-of-the-art performances in terms of FID and CLIP-Score for few steps image generation on the COCO2014 and COCO2017 datasets, while requiring only several GPU hours of training and fewer trainable parameters than existing methods. In addition to its efficiency, the versatility of the method is also exposed across several tasks such as *text-to-image*, *inpainting*, *face-swapping*, *super-resolution* and using different backbones such as UNet-based denoisers (SD1.5,  SDXL), DiT (Pixart-$\alpha$) and MMDiT (SD3), as well as adapters. In all cases, the method allowed to reduce drastically the number of sampling steps while maintaining very high-quality image generation.

Flash Diffusion: Accelerating Any Conditional Diffusion Model for Few Steps Image Generation

Symbolic regression (SR) has emerged as a pivotal technique for uncovering the intrinsic information within data and enhancing the interpretability of AI models. However, current state-of-the-art (sota) SR methods struggle to perform correct recovery of symbolic expressions from high-noise data. To address this issue, we introduce a novel noise-resilient SR (NRSR) method capable of recovering expressions from high-noise data. Our method leverages a novel reinforcement learning (RL) approach in conjunction with a designed noise-resilient gating module (NGM) to learn symbolic selection policies. The gating module can dynamically filter the meaningless information from high-noise data, thereby demonstrating a high noise-resilient capability for the SR process. And we also design a mixed path entropy (MPE) bonus term in the RL process to increase the exploration capabilities of the policy. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms several popular baselines on benchmarks with high-noise data. Furthermore, our method also can achieve sota performance on benchmarks with clean data, showcasing its robustness and efficacy in SR tasks.

Noise-Resilient Symbolic Regression with Dynamic Gating Reinforcement Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning hold immense potential to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering design. A fundamental challenge in these domains involves efficiently exploring a large space of hypotheses using expensive experiments in a resource-efficient manner. My research focuses on developing novel adaptive experimental design methods to address this broad challenge. Specifically, I develop new probabilistic modeling and decision making tools that operate in small data settings. These approaches have yielded substantial improvements in sample-efficiency, particularly for black-box optimization over high-dimensional combinatorial spaces (e.g., sequences and graphs). This cover letter outlines key methods I have developed and their real-world sustainability applications in areas such as nano-porous materials discovery, hardware design, and additive manufacturing. Additionally, I highlight my initiatives to foster collaboration between Science/Engineering and AI communities.

Adaptive Experimental Design to Accelerate Scientific Discovery and Engineering Design

Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed vision and language modeling, Scientific Machine Learning (SciML) complements data-driven AI via a knowledge-driven approach, enhancing our understanding of the physical world. My work focuses on: 1) automating scientific reasoning with language models, 2) improving geometric interpretation, 3) developing foundation models for multiphysics.

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