Singapore

Few-shot action recognition (FSAR) has recently made notable progress through set matching and efficient adaptation of large-scale pre-trained models. However, two key limitations persist. First, existing set matching metrics typically rely on cosine similarity to measure inter-frame linear dependencies and then perform matching with only instance-level information, thus failing to capture more complex patterns such as nonlinear relationships and overlooking task-specific cues. Second, for efficient adaptation of CLIP to FSAR, recent work performing fine-tuning via skip-fusion layers (which we refer to as side layers) has significantly reduced memory cost. However, the newly introduced side layers are often difficult to optimize under limited data conditions. To address these limitations, we propose TS-FSAR, a framework comprising three components: (1) a visual Ladder Side Network (LSN) for efficient CLIP fine-tuning; (2) a metric called Task-Specific Distance Correlation Matching (TS-DCM), which uses $\alpha$-distance correlation to model both linear and nonlinear inter-frame dependencies and leverages a task prototype to enable task-specific matching; and (3) a Guiding LSN with Adapted CLIP (GLAC) module, which regularizes LSN using the adapted frozen CLIP to improve training for better $\alpha$-distance correlation estimation under limited supervision. Extensive experiments on five widely-used benchmarks demonstrate that our TS-FSAR yields superior performance compared to prior state-of-the-arts.

AAAI 2026

Task-Specific Distance Correlation Matching for Few-Shot Action Recognition

distance correlation

few-shot action recognition

metric learning

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/)

AAAI 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.



poster

We are pleased to announce the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), which will be held in Singapore EXPO from January 20 to January 27, 2026.

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-26 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.

To access this event page, you need to log in with the **email address you registered with**. Access credentials will be sent to your email from Underline - subject line "Welcome to AAAI 2026". Please be sure to check your spam email folder if you do not see an email confirmation right away.

Please log in

To access this event page, you are required to register.
Please complete your registration to continue.

We recommend reading [**the registration information**](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/registration/) first.

**Online Registration Form**: https://aaai.getregistered.net/conference-2026 

Registration Required

We are pleased to announce the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), which will be held in Singapore EXPO from January 20 to January 27, 2026.

Generating interaction-centric videos, such as those depicting humans or robots interacting with objects, is crucial for embodied intelligence, as they provide rich and diverse visual priors for robot learning, manipulation policy training, and affordance reasoning. However, existing methods often struggle to model such complex and dynamic interactions. While recent studies show that masks can serve as effective control signals and enhance generation quality, obtaining dense and precise mask annotations remains a major challenge for real-world use. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Mask2IV, a novel framework specifically designed for interaction-centric video generation. It adopts a decoupled two-stage pipeline that first predicts plausible motion trajectories for both actor and object, then generates a video conditioned on these trajectories. This design eliminates the need for dense mask inputs from users while preserving the flexibility to manipulate the interaction process. Furthermore, Mask2IV supports versatile and intuitive control, allowing users to specify the target object of interaction and guide the motion trajectory through action descriptions or spatial position cues. To support systematic training and evaluation, we curate two benchmarks covering diverse action and object categories across both human-object interaction and robotic manipulation scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves superior visual realism and controllability compared to existing baselines.

Mask2IV: Interaction-Centric Video Generation via Mask Trajectories

Accurate segmentation of aortic vascular structures is critical for diagnosing and treating cardiovascular diseases. Traditional Transformer-based models have shown promise in this domain by capturing long-range dependencies between vascular features. 
However, their reliance on fixed-size rectangular patches often influences the integrity of complex vascular structures, leading to suboptimal segmentation accuracy. 
To address this challenge, we propose the adaptive Morph-Patch Transformer (MPT), a novel architecture specifically designed for aortic vascular segmentation. 
Specifically, MPT introduces an adaptive patch partitioning strategy that dynamically generates morphology-aware patches aligned with complex vascular structures.
This strategy can preserve semantic integrity of complex vascular structures within individual patches.
Moreover, a Semantic Clustering Attention (SCA) method is proposed to dynamically aggregate features from various patches with similar semantic characteristics.
This method enhances the model's capability to segment vessels of varying sizes, preserving the integrity of vascular structures.
Extensive experiments on three open-source dataset(AVT, AortaSeg24 and TBAD) demonstrate that MPT achieves state-of-the-art performance, with improvements in segmenting intricate vascular structures. 
Our code and datasets are detailed described in the appendix.

Adaptive Morph-Patch Transformer for Aortic Vessel Segmentation

With the growing prevalence of HDR-capable cinema venues such as Cinity LED theaters, there is an increasing demand to convert existing Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) films into High Dynamic Range (HDR) formats for theatrical presentation. However, existing SDR-to-HDR conversion methods are primarily tailored for consumer-grade content such as television and therefore fall short of the stringent requirements of professional cinematic material. To bridge this gap, we present HDRMovie7K, the first large-scale, lossless dataset of cinematic SDR-HDR frame pairs sourced from professional Digital Cinema Distribution Master (DCDM) workflows. Based on this foundation, we introduce HDRMovieformer, a transformer-based framework featuring a Luminance Estimator module for luminance guidance, a Luminance-Guided Multi-Head Self-Attention to focus on critical fine-detail recovery, and a Chroma Refiner for color accuracy, optimized with a novel Wide Color Gamut Loss. To further evaluate our model in online streaming media scenarios, we introduce HDRMovie1K, a dataset curated from publicly available HDR film clips. Extensive experiments on both HDRMovie7K and HDRMovie1K demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance. The source code and pre-trained models will be available.

HDRMovieformer: A Transformer Framework and Benchmark for Cinematic SDR-to-HDR Conversion

With the rapid advancement of intelligent education, Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) has attracted increasing attention by integrating educational psychology with deep learning technologies. Unlike traditional paper-and-pencil testing, CAT aims to efficiently and accurately assess ex- aminee abilities by adaptively selecting the most suitable items during the assessment process. However, its real-time and sequential nature presents limitations in practical scenarios, particularly in large-scale assessments where interaction costs are high, or in sensitive domains such as psychological evaluations where minimizing noise and interfer- ence is essential. These challenges constrain the applicability of conventional CAT methods in time-sensitive or resource- constrained environments. To this end, we first introduce a novel task called one-shot adaptive testing (OAT), which aims to select a fixed set of optimal items for each test-taker in a one-time selection. Meanwhile, we propose PEOAT, a Personalization-guided Evolutionary question assembly framework for One-hot Adaptive Testing from the perspec- tive of combinatorial optimization. Specifically, we began by designing a personalization-aware initialization strategy that integrates differences between examinee ability and ex- ercise difficulty, using multi-strategy sampling to construct a diverse and informative initial population. Building on this, we proposed a cognitive-enhanced evolutionary framework incorporating schema-preserving crossover and cognitively guided mutation to enable efficient exploration through infor- mative signals. To maintain diversity without compromising fitness, we further introduced a diversity-aware environmen- tal selection mechanism. The effectiveness of PEOAT is val- idated through extensive experiments on two datasets, com- plemented by case studies that uncovered valuable insights.

PEOAT: Personalization-Guided Evolutionary Question Assembly for One-Shot Adaptive Testing

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still face significant challenges in complex visual tasks (e.g., spatial understanding, fine-grained perception). Prior methods have tried to incorporate visual reasoning, however, they fail to leverage attention correction with spatial cues to iteratively refine their focus on prompt-relevant regions. In this paper, we introduce SIFThinker, a spatially-aware “think-with-images” framework that mimics human visual perception. Specifically, SIFThinker enables attention correcting and image region focusing by interleaving depth-enhanced bounding boxes and natural language. Our contributions are twofold: First, we introduce a reverse-expansion-forward-inference strategy that facilitates the generation of interleaved image-text chains of thought for process-level supervision, which in turn leads to the construction of the SIF-50K dataset. Besides, we propose GRPO-SIF, a reinforced training paradigm that integrates depth-informed visual grounding into a unified reasoning pipeline, teaching the model to dynamically correct and focus on prompt-relevant regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SIFThinker outperforms state-of-the-art methods in spatial understanding and fine-grained visual perception, while maintaining strong general capabilities, highlighting the effectiveness of our method.

SIFThinker: Spatially-Aware Image Focus for Visual Reasoning

Continual learning (CL) aims to equip models with the ability to learn from a stream of tasks without forgetting previous knowledge. With the progress of vision-language models like Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), their promise for CL has attracted increasing attention due to their strong generalizability. However, the potential of rich textual semantic priors in CLIP in addressing the stability–plasticity dilemma remains underexplored. During backbone training, most approaches transfer past knowledge without considering semantic relevance, leading to interference from unrelated tasks that disrupt the balance between stability and plasticity. Besides, while text-based classifiers provide strong generalization, they suffer from limited plasticity due to the inherent modality gap in CLIP. Visual classifiers help bridge this gap, but their prototypes lack rich and precise semantics. To address these challenges, we propose Semantic-Enriched Continual Adaptation (SECA), a unified framework that harnesses the anti-forgetting and structured nature of textual priors to guide semantic-aware knowledge transfer in the backbone and reinforce the semantic structure of the visual classifier. Specifically, a Semantic-Guided Adaptive Knowledge Transfer (SG-AKT) module is proposed to assess new images' relevance to diverse historical visual knowledge via textual cues, and aggregate relevant knowledge in an instance-adaptive manner as distillation signals. Moreover, a Semantic-Enhanced Visual Prototype Refinement (SE-VPR) module is introduced to refine visual prototypes using inter-class semantic relations captured in class-wise textual embeddings. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks validate the effectiveness of our approach. Code is available in the supplementary materials.

Harnessing Textual Semantic Priors for Knowledge Transfer and Refinement in CLIP-Driven Continual Learning

Unrestricted adversarial attacks aim to fool DNNs by generating effective yet photorealistic examples. However, previous methods usually rely on global perturbations to enhance attack performance, which inevitably introduces visual distortions. To reduce visual distortions in the background, we propose a diffusion-based framework that focuses on local perturbations to generate object-level unrestricted adversarial examples (ObjectAdv). Since the cross-attention maps of Stable Diffusion contain the object information, we directly leverage the attention maps to localize the semantic region of object where for attacking. Second, a prompt-switching strategy is proposed for both imperceptibility and attack capacity. Specifically, to preserve layout and object shape of clean image, a prompt of true category is used at early denoising steps. At the later steps, we propose a well-designed prompt to guide the diffusion model to generate transferable adversarial examples. This local attack may cause inconsistency between the perturbed object and the background in adversarial examples. An FFT-based edge smoother is utilized to ensure seamless blending of the edges. ObjectAdv achieves an average ASR of 99.2% in white-box test on the ImageNet-compatible dataset, and outperforms existing methods on defense performance (+5%) and image quality metrics, e.g., SSIM of 0.9140 (+0.1048) and FID of 25.63 (-19.27).

ObjectAdv: Object-Level Unrestricted Adversarial Attacks via Diffusion Models

Graph classification is a critical task in analyzing graph data, with applications across various domains. While graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable results, their ability to generalize across graphs of varying scales remains a challenge. Conventional models often perform well on largescale graphs but struggle with distributions that are skewed towards small scales. Conversely, models tailored to address scale imbalances frequently prioritize small-scale graphs, leading to diminished performance in more balanced scenarios. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a Unbalanced-Balanced Representation Converter (U2B), which exhibits no explicit bias toward graph scales. U2B employs a two-step workflow: a distillation phase to extract base features from both node-level and graph-level representations, followed by a refinement phase to generate biased representations for improved balance. In the distillation phase, a static constraint guides node-level adjustments, improving the representation of nodes in small graphs. Simultaneously, a dynamic constraint in the graph-level process mitigates biases toward features from large graphs. To ensure harmony between the representations, a consistency alignment loss is introduced, aligning node-level and graph-level features to create more cohesive and balanced graph representations. Extensive experiments with 16 baselines across 8 datasets demonstrate that U2B achieves SOTA performance, boasting improvements of up to 22.19%. Additionally, we establish its strong compatibility with a range of other models. All associated code is provided in Supplement.

U2B: Scale-unbiased Representation Converter for Graph Classification with Imbalanced and Balanced Scale Distributions

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling, yet their high computational cost hinders real-time deployment. While feature caching offers a promising training-free acceleration solution by exploiting temporal redundancy, existing methods suffer from two key limitations: (1) uniform caching intervals fail to align with the non-uniform temporal dynamics of DiT, and (2) naive feature reuse with excessively large caching intervals can lead to severe error accumulation. In this work, we analyze the evolution of DiT features during denoising and reveal that both feature changes and error propagation are highly time- and depth-varying. Motivated by this, we propose ProCache, a training-free dynamic feature caching framework that addresses these issues via two core components: (i) a constraint-aware caching pattern search module that generates non-uniform activation schedules through offline constrained sampling, tailored to the model’s temporal characteristics; and (ii) a selective computation module that selectively compute within deep blocks and high-importance tokens for cached segments to mitigate error accumulation with minimal overhead. Extensive experiments on PixArt-$\alpha$ and DiT demonstrate that ProCache achieves up to 1.96$\times$ and 2.90$\times$ acceleration with negligible quality degradation, significantly outperforming prior caching-based methods.

ProCache: Constraint-Aware Feature Caching with Selective Computation for Diffusion Transformer Acceleration

6-DoF object grasping is a crucial skill for embodied intelligent robots. Previous methods often rely on large-scale networks for feature extraction, followed by grasp pose prediction, which increases the network's parameter count and overlooks the geometric and graph features of the point cloud. To address these challenges, we propose GraphGrasp, a graph-guided 6-DoF grasping pose prediction method. It performs graph analysis from the perspectives of scene, object, and grasping graphs. First, we introduce a graph feature embedding method based on local-global features to model the scene graph effectively. Then, we use a graph transformer strategy to represent spatial relationships between objects in the object graph. Finally, we propose a multi-metric, multi-level grasp pose evaluation algorithm to predict and explore graspable points, enabling effective construction of grasp graphs and accurate grasp pose evaluation. We test GraphGrasp on the GraspNet-1Billion dataset, and the results show that, compared to previous methods, it achieves nearly the same performance with about $\frac{1}{5}$ of the parameters of state-of-the-art methods, significantly improving grasp pose prediction speed. Additionally, in real-world robot grasping scenarios, GraphGrasp outperforms previous methods in practical grasp pose prediction tasks.

Downloads

Next from AAAI 2026

Mask2IV: Interaction-Centric Video Generation via Mask Trajectories

Similar lecture

Frame Order Matters: A Temporal Sequence-Aware Model for Few-Shot Action Recognition

.css-70qvj9{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;}Downloads

Next from AAAI 2026

Mask2IV: Interaction-Centric Video Generation via Mask Trajectories

Similar lecture

Frame Order Matters: A Temporal Sequence-Aware Model for Few-Shot Action Recognition

Downloads