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Dense video captioning aims to detect and describe all events in untrimmed videos. This paper presents a dense video captioning network called Multi-Concept Cyclic Learning (MCCL), which aims to: (1) detect multiple concepts at the frame level, using these concepts to enhance video features and provide temporal event cues; (2) design cyclic co-learning between the generator and the localizer within the captioning network to promote semantic perception and event localization. Specifically, we perform weakly supervised concept detection for each frame, and the detected concept embeddings are integrated into the video features to provide event cues. Additionally, video-level concept contrastive learning is introduced to obtain more discriminative concept embeddings. In the captioning network, we establish a cyclic co-learning strategy where the generator guides the localizer for event localization through semantic matching, while the localizer enhances the generator’s event semantic perception through location matching, making semantic perception and event localization mutually beneficial. MCCL achieves state-of-the-art performance on the ActivityNet Captions and YouCook2 datasets. Extensive experiments demonstrate its effectiveness and interpretability.

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Exploring Temporal Event Cues for Dense Video Captioning in Cyclic Co-Learning

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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.

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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.



Growing customer demand for smart solutions in robotics and augmented reality has attracted considerable attention to 3D object detection from point clouds. Yet, existing indoor datasets taken individually are too small and insufficiently diverse to train a powerful and general 3D object detection model. In the meantime, more general approaches utilizing foundation models are still inferior in quality to those based on supervised training for a specific task.
In this work, we propose UniDet3D, a simple yet effective 3D object detection model, which is trained on a mixture of indoor datasets and is capable to work in various indoor environments. By unifying different label spaces, UniDet3D enables learning a strong representation across multiple datasets through a supervised joint training scheme. The proposed network architecture is built upon a vanilla transformer encoder, making it easy to run, customize and extend the prediction pipeline for practical use. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UniDet3D obtains significant gains over existing 3D object detection methods in 6 indoor benchmarks: ScanNet (+1.1 $mAP_{50}$), S3DIS (+9.1 $mAP_{50}$), ARKitScenes (+19.4 $mAP_{25}$), MultiScan (+14.3 $mAP_{50}$), 3RScan (+3.2 $mAP_{50}$), and ScanNet++ (+2.7 $mAP_{50}$).

UniDet3D: Multi-dataset Indoor 3D Object Detection

In recent years, visually-rich document understanding has attracted increasing attention. Transformer-based pre-trained models have become the mainstream approach, yielding significant performance gains in this field. However, the self-attention mechanism's quadratic computational complexity hinders their efficiency and ability to process long documents. In this paper, we present DocMamba, a novel framework based on the state space model. It is designed to reduce computational complexity to linear while preserving global modeling capabilities. To further enhance its effectiveness in document processing, we introduce the Segment-First Bidirectional Scan (SFBS) to capture contiguous semantic information. Experimental results demonstrate that DocMamba achieves new state-of-the-art results on downstream datasets such as FUNSD, CORD, and SORIE, while significantly improving speed and reducing memory usage. Notably, experiments on the HRDoc confirm DocMamba's potential for length extrapolation. The code is included in the supplementary material and will also be available online.

DocMamba: Efficient Document Pre-training with State Space Model

Text-video retrieval (TVR) has seen substantial advancements in recent years, fueled by the utilization of pre-trained models and large language models (LLMs). Despite these advancements, achieving accurate matching in TVR remains challenging due to inherent disparities between video and textual modalities and irregularities in data representation. In this paper, we propose Text-Video-ProxyNet (TV-ProxyNet), a novel framework designed to decompose the conventional 1-to-$N$ relationship of TVR into $N$ distinct 1-to-1 relationships. By replacing a single text query with a series of text proxies, TV-ProxyNet not only broadens the query scope but also achieves a more precise expansion. Each text proxy is crafted through a refined iterative process, controlled by mechanisms we term as the director and dash, which regulate the proxy's direction and distance relative to the original text query. This setup not only facilitates more precise semantic alignment but also effectively manages the disparities and noise inherent in multimodal data. Our experiments on three representative video-text retrieval benchmarks, MSRVTT, DiDeMo, and ActivityNet Captions, demonstrate the effectiveness of TV-ProxyNet. The results show an improvement of 2.0\% to 3.3\% in R@1 over the baseline. TV-ProxyNet achieved state-of-the-art performance on MSRVTT and ActivityNet Captions, and a 2.0\% improvement on DiDeMo compared to existing methods, validating our approach's ability to enhance semantic mapping and reduce error propensity.

Text Proxy: Decomposing Retrieval from a 1-to-$N$ Relationship into $N$ 1-to-1 Relationships for Text-Video Retrieval

As the global population ages and the incidence of chronic diseases rises, the demand for early detection of abnormal medical conditions is increasing. Traditional health monitoring methods often require significant resources and specialized personnel, limiting their widespread use. Leveraging advancements in AI technologies, this study proposes a non-invasive method for detecting abnormal medical conditions from image data. A multi-modal perception framework is introduced, integrating features from various modalities, including facial expressions and body postures, to enhance detection accuracy. The framework employs a Cascaded Squeeze-Excitation (CSE) module, consisting of Adaptive and Multi-modal Squeeze-Excitation components, to capture complex feature dependencies and improve cross-modal performance. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach, showing improved performance over existing methods. Additionally, a new dataset encompassing a wide range of medical conditions has been released, providing a valuable resource for future research in this domain.

MMPF: Multi-Modal Perception Framework for Abnormal Medical Condition Detection

Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) is an emerging information extraction (IE) task, aiming to simultaneously extract entity spans, types, and corresponding visual regions of entities from given sentence-image pairs data. Recent unified methods employing machine reading comprehension or sequence generation-based frameworks show limitations in this difficult task. The former, utilizing human-designed queries, struggles to differentiate ambiguous entities, such as Jordan (Person) and off-White x Jordan (Shoes). The latter, following the one-by-one decoding order, suffers from exposure bias issues. We maintain that these works misunderstand the relationships of multimodal entities. To tackle these, we propose a novel unified framework named Multi-grained Query-guided Set Prediction Network (MQSPN) to learn appropriate relationships at intra-entity and inter-entity levels. Specifically, MQSPN consists of a Multi-grained Query Set (MQS) and a Multimodal Set Prediction Network (MSP). MQS explicitly aligns entity regions with entity spans by employing a set of learnable queries to strengthen intra-entity connections. Based on distinct intra-entity modeling, MSP reformulates GMNER as a set prediction, guiding models to establish appropriate inter-entity relationships from a global matching perspective. Additionally, we incorporate a query-guided Fusion Net (QFNet) to work as a glue network between MQS and MSP. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performances in widely used benchmarks. Our code is available at Supplementary Material.

Multi-Grained Query-Guided Set Prediction Network for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition

Text-to-audio generation models (TAG) such as AudioGen have achieved significant advances in generating audio conditioned on text descriptions. However, a critical challenge lies in the lack of transparency of how textual input contributes to the generated audio. To address this issue, we introduce AudioGenX, an Explainable AI (XAI) method that provides both factual and counterfactual explanations for text-to-audio generation models. AudioGenX optimizes $Explainer$ by leveraging factual and counterfactual objective functions, to provide faithful explanations to be generated at the audio token level. The method offers a detailed and comprehensive understanding of the relationship between text inputs and audio outputs, enhancing both the explainability and trustworthiness of TAG models. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of AudioGenX in producing faithful explanations, which are benchmarked against existing methods using novel evaluation metrics specifically designed for audio generation tasks. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/audiogenX/.

AudioGenX: Explainability on Text-to-Audio Generative Models

Multi-label few-shot image classification is a crucial and challenging task due to limited annotated data and elusive category specificity. However, research on this topic is still in the rudimentary stage and few methods are available. Existing methods either leverage data augmentation to alleviate data scarcity or utilize label features as auxiliary knowledge to eliminate the negative effect caused by irrelevant categories, but they ignore the utilization of image region features for data augmentation, and overlook to learn appropriate text feature to better match the image features of specific categories. Moreover, these methods only focus on one side and do not effectively tackle the above two issues simultaneously. In this paper, we introduce a novel prototype-based multi-label few-shot learning framework that seamlessly integrates pairwise feature augmentation and flexible prompt learning. Specifically, by pairwise feature augmentation, we leverage the region features of images in the support set to generate more image features and construct image prototypes, thus alleviating the issue of data scarcity. By flexible prompt learning, we adaptively acquire class-specific prompts to build text prototypes that highly match the image features of specific classes, thereby mitigating the impact of irrelevant classes. Finally, with adaptive learnable parameters, we merge image and text prototypes to obtain the final prototypes, achieving a more powerful classifier for multi-label few-shot image classification. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method can push the performance to a higher level.

Multi-Label Few-Shot Image Classification via Pairwise Feature Augmentation and Flexible Prompt Learning

Cross-domain few-shot learning (CDFSL) requires the model to transfer knowledge from the data-abundant source domain to data-scarce target domains for fast adaptation, where the large domain gap makes CDFSL a challenging problem.
Masked Autoencoder (MAE) excels in effectively using unlabeled data and learning image's global structures, enhancing model generalization and robustness. However, in the CDFSL task with significant domain shifts, we find MAE even shows lower performance than the baseline supervised models. 
In this paper, we first delve into this phenomenon for an interpretation.
We find that MAE tends to focus on low-level domain information during reconstructing pixels while changing the reconstruction target to token features could mitigate this problem. However, not all features are beneficial, as we then find reconstructing high-level features can hardly improve the model's transferability, indicating a trade-off between filtering domain information and preserving the image's global structure. 
In all, the reconstruction target matters for the CDFSL task.
Based on the above findings and interpretations, we further propose Domain-Agonostic Masked Image Modeling (DAMIM) for the CDFSL task. DAMIM includes an Aggregated Feature Reconstruction module to automatically aggregate features for reconstruction, with balanced learning of domain-agnostic information and images' global structure, and a Lightweight Decoder module to further benefit the encoder's generalizability.
Experiments on four CDFSL datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance.

Reconstruction Target Matters in Masked Image Modeling for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

Label correction methods are popular for their simple architecture in learning with noisy labels. However, they suffer severely from false label correction and achieve subpar performance compared with state-of-the-art methods. In this paper, we revisit the label correction methods through theoretical analysis of gradient scaling and demonstrate that the sample-wise dynamic and class-wise uniformity of interpolation weight prevents memorization of the mislabeled samples. We then propose DULC, a simple yet effective label correction method 
that uses the normalized Jensen-Shannon divergence (JSD) metric as the interpolation weight to promote sample-wise dynamic and class-wise uniformity. Additionally, we provide theoretical evidence that sharpening predictions in label correction facilitates the memorization of true class, and we achieve it by employing the augmentation strategy along with the sharpening function. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, TinyImageNet, WebVision and Clothing1M datasets demonstrate substantial improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available in supplementary material.

Revisiting Interpolation for Noisy Label Correction

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.

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