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High-accuracy image segmentation models require abundant training annotated data which is costly for pixel-level annotations. Our work addresses a high-cost manual annotating process or the lack of detailed annotations via a generative approach. In particular, our approach (1) proposes the conditional instance-level synthesis to enrich the limited data to enhance the segmentation performance, and (2) employs the generative architectures to complete the segmentation task under few-shot learning concepts. The initial results on the Cityscapes benchmark emphasize our potential generative solution on the instance segmentation task given limited data.

AAAI 2025

A Generative Approach at the Instance-Level for Image Segmentation Under Limited Training Data Conditions (Student Abstract)

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.

We expect for AAAI-24 to be an in-person conference – one author of all accepted papers will be expected to present work in person unless there are exceptional circumstances that prevent this.

In order to access the AAAI-24 event page you need to register [here](https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/registration/)

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.

### [Invited Speakers](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/aaai-25-invited-speakers/)

Register [here](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/registration/)

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.



This paper proposes extended Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for the knowledge tracing task and employs explainable AI methods to address interpretability issues. Specifically, we developed an extended LSTM-based model to automatically diagnose students' knowledge states. We then leveraged three interpreting methods—gradient sensitivity, gradient*input, and Deep SHAP—to explain the model's predictions by computing input contributions. The results demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms DKT, and the three methods effectively explain its predictions. Additionally, we identified three key insights into the model's working mechanisms.

Extended LSTMs for Knowledge Tracing: Peeking Inside the Black Box (Student Abstract)

This abstract presents a simulated annealing based approach that constructs hyper-spectral images from the frequency spectrums of a distributed acoustic sensing system and iteratively improves them through the training of learnable filters. The aim is to construct an image that represents features of signals from events while repressing noise. Hyper-spectral images are specifically created for downstream computer vision tasks such as object detection. Hyper-spectral images are images with more than three channels that are derived from a frequency spectrum to obtain the spectrum for each image pixel. Simulated annealing is used to train the filters to automatically select frequencies and bin them into frequency bands. Each frequency band is mapped into an image channel. We fully integrate our filtering method with an object detection network so that filters are trained in conjunction with the neural network. The detection model serves as both the measure and the selector. Our simulated annealing approach significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art methods by a margin of 22%. Limitations include a dependency on randomness and excluding parts of the search space prematuraly due to the design of the local moves.

Acoustic-to-Hyper-Spectral: Hyper-Spectral Image Construction from Frequency Spectrums Through Simulated Annealing (Student Abstract)

Attempting to align AI capabilities and value structures by means of value elicitation from humans, such as through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), is a computational challenge that raises both psychological and philosophical questions. Adopting an evolutionary perspective on the emergence of value structures in humans and machine learning systems can offer a bridge between qualitative and quantitative aspects of alignment. Here, evolutionary dynamics are applied to a game-theoretic model of RLHF. This allows for formal reasoning about the process and capabilities that result from alignment training, even where quantitative benchmarks cannot be clearly defined. A simple parametrized game model of RLHF, subject to replicator dynamics, shows how the success of the training method is sensitive to bias in human judgments. Under ideal conditions, RHLF training leads to aligned behavior. If the choice pattern of the human judge is biased, the training instead incentivizes misalignment. This application shows that evolutionary analyses can contribute to improving the prospects for safety and support successful cooperation between humans and AI systems in deployment.

An Evolutionary Perspective on AI Alignment (Student Abstract)

Recent advancements in single-cell sequencing technologies enable the measurement of multiple modalities in individual cells, offering insights into the transcriptome and regulome in various biological systems and human diseases in an unprecedented resolution. However, effectively using these ultra-high-dimensional and large-scale multiomic data to understand gene regulation remains challenging. Inspired by the success of adapting large language models into the genomics field, we develop scMBERT, a BERT framework-based pre-trained deep learning model using single-cell multiomic data. We showed that scMBERT increases model flexibility and performance in downstream tasks like cell type annotation and batch-effect correction, demonstrating the potential of leveraging multiomic data to improve single-cell genomic data analyses.

scMBERT: A Pre-Trained Deep Learning Model for Single-Cell Multiomic Data Representation and Prediction (Student Abstract)

Counterfactual explanations in Explainable AI (XAI) identify which features to change to alter an outcome, but existing methods adjust only the features of a single agent. We present a new approach to re-evaluating rankings that is based on predictions of future features of the other agents in a ranking system. It uses an algorithm that provides a more realistic counterfactual explanation of changing the ranking of a particular agent. Computer experiments demonstrated that the proposed algorithm can capture the time variation of the entire ranking system in the inference results.

Counterfactual Explanations of Time Varying Rankings (Student Abstract)

This paper addresses contention window optimization for multi-access scenarios. 
Our investigation into state-of-the-art models revealed that a limited number of nodes dominate the communication channels. Such monopolization issues are critical in networks as they can lead to significant disruptions. To mitigate this monopolization problem, we propose an imitation learning-based backoff mechanism. The proposed model is a reinforcement learning-based contention window optimization method. It imitates the expert's policy to ensure fair policy convergence for the agent and includes opportunities for weight adjustment to boost performance. The proposed model shows a fairness improvement of approximately 20% to 41% across various scenarios.

Imitation Learning Backoff: Reinforcement Learning-based Channel Access for Guaranteeing Fairness (Student Abstract)

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) trains multiple agents in shared environments. Recently, MARL models have significantly improved performance by leveraging sequential decision-making processes. Although these models can enhance performance, they do not explicitly con-sider the importance of the order in which agents make decisions. We propose AOAD-MAT, a novel model incorporating action decision sequence into learning. AOAD-MAT uses a Transformer-based actor-critic architecture to dynamically adjust agent action order. It introduces a subtask predicting the next agent to act, integrated into a PPO-based loss function. Experiments on StarCraft Multi-Agent Challenge and Multi-Agent MuJoCo benchmarks show AOAD-MAT out-performs existing models, demonstrating the effectiveness of adjusting agent order in MARL.

Sequential Order Adjustment of Action Decisions for Multi-Agent Transformer (Student Abstract)

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) struggle with continual learning, sacrificing performance on previously learned tasks to acquire new task knowledge. Here we propose a new approach allowing to mitigate catastrophic forgetting during continuous task learning. Typically a new task is trained until it reaches maximal performance, causing complete catastrophic forgetting of the previous tasks. In our new approach, termed Optimal Stopping (OS), network training on each new task continues only while the mean validation accuracy across all the tasks (current and previous) increases. The stopping criterion creates an explicit balance: lower performance on new tasks is accepted in exchange for preserving knowledge of previous tasks, resulting in higher overall network performance. The overall performance is further improved when OS is combined with Sleep Replay Consolidation (SRC), wherein the network converts to a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) and undergoes unsupervised learning modulated by Hebbian plasticity. During the SRC, the network spontaneously replays activation patterns from previous tasks, helping to maintain and restore prior task performance. This combined approach offers a promising avenue for enhancing the robustness and longevity of learned representations in continual learning models, achieving over twice the mean accuracy of baseline continuous learning while maintaining stable performance across tasks.

When to Learn and When to Stop: Quitting at the Optimal Time (Student Abstract)

The recent success of transformer language models owes much to their conversational fluency, which includes linguistic and morphological proficiency. An affine Taylor approximation has been found to be a good approximation for transformer computations over certain factual and encyclopedic relations. We show that the truly linear approximation W s, where s is a early layer representation of the base form and W is a local model derivative, is necessary and sufficient
to approximate morphological derivation, achieving above 80% top-1 accuracy across most morphological tasks in the Bigger Analogy Test Set. We argue that many morphological forms in transformer models are likely linearly encoded.

Linear Decoding of Morphology Relations in Language Models (Student Abstract)

FuSE-MET addresses critical challenges in deploying human activity recognition (HAR) systems in uncontrolled environments by effectively managing noisy labels, sparse data, and undefined activity vocabularies. By integrating BERT-based word embeddings with domain-specific knowledge (i.e., MET values), FuSE-MET optimizes label merging, reducing label complexity and improving classification accuracy. Our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques, including ChatGPT-4, by balancing semantic meaning and physical intensity.

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