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Once trained, neural networks memorize information in diffusely encoded parameters, making it difficult to forget in support of the right to be forgotten. Unlearning aims to remove the influence of data, with performance measured against a retrained model that excludes the data. However, understanding the behavior of gold-standard retraining remains underexplored. We compare original and retrained models and observe that most prediction changes occur in peripheral samples near decision boundaries. Consequently, we propose PeriUn, a selective strategy that unlearns only peripheral samples to mimic retrained model behavior with minimal disruption, unlike prior works that remove the entire request. Combined with the Random Label based method, PeriUn significantly improves both generalization and privacy metrics. Specifically, on TinyImageNet with VGG16, PeriUn increases the Tug-of-War score by 22 points compared to the strongest. Besides, the MIA gap score surpasses the state-of-the-art method, improving by 8.7 points after applying PeriUn. Further analyses confirm that PeriUn better preserves the feature space and aligns closely with the retrained model.

AAAI 2026 Main Conference

PeriUn: Enhancing Unlearning by Selectively Forgetting Peripheral Samples

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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 rise of 3D generative models has enabled automatic 3D geometry and texture synthesis from multimodal inputs (e.g., text or images). However, these methods often ignore physical constraints and manufacturability considerations. In this work, we address the challenge of producing 3D designs that are both lightweight and self-supporting. We present DensiCrafter, a framework for generating lightweight, self-supporting 3D hollow structures by optimizing the density field. Starting from coarse voxel grids produced by Trellis, we interpret these as continuous density fields to optimize and introduce three differentiable, physically constrained, and simulation-free loss terms. Additionally, a mass regularization penalizes unnecessary material, while a restricted optimization domain preserves the outer surface. Our method seamlessly integrates with pretrained Trellis-based models (e.g., Trellis, DSO) without any architectural changes. In extensive evaluations, we achieve up to 43% reduction in material mass on the text-to-3D task. Compared to state-of-the-art baselines, our method could improve the stability and maintain high geometric fidelity. Real-world 3D-printing experiments confirm that our hollow designs can be reliably fabricated and could be self-supporting.

DensiCrafter: Physically-Constrained Generation and Fabrication of Self-Supporting Hollow Structures

Existing stereotype auditing methods for large language models (LLM) typically rely on isolated rating schemes or task-specific probes, lacking a theoretical grounding and failing to reveal the internal organization beyond surface-level output patterns. In this paper, we introduce SCoUT (Stereotype Content oriented Utility structure via Thurstonian modeling), a closed-loop framework that structurally models, explicitly probes, and causally intervenes on stereotype dimensions(warmth and competence) in LLMs. SCoUT first reconstructs a global stereotype utility structure aligned with Stereotype Content Model theory via Thurstonian comparative judgments. Across multiple open-source LLMs, this modeling achieves high pairwise-preference prediction accuracy ($\ge0.90$ on larger-scale models) and exhibits strong cross-model consistency. Probing internal attention mechanisms localizes this structure to specific heads (Spearman’s $\rho$ up to 0.83 for warmth and 0.90 for competence) and surfaces a salient asymmetry between warmth and competence. Further, targeted inference-time activation modifications on these dimension-sensitive heads consistently steer model outputs along the intended axes. By bridging behavioral measurement with internal representation and controllable steering, SCoUT offers an end-to-end framework that uncovers and interprets the latent structure of stereotypes, advancing stereotype auditing from surface detection to structural analysis.

SCoUT: A Framework for Structured Stereotype Analysis in Language Models

High-quality long-context data is essential for training large language models (LLMs) capable of processing extensive documents, yet existing synthesis approaches using relevance-based aggregation face challenges of computational efficiency. We present LiteLong, a resource-efficient method for synthesizing long-context data through structured topic organization and multi-agent debate. Our approach leverages the BISAC book classification system to provide a comprehensive hierarchical topic organization, and then employs a debate mechanism with multiple LLMs to generate diverse, high-quality topics within this structure. For each topic, we use lightweight BM25 retrieval to obtain relevant documents and concatenate them into 128K-token training samples. Experiments on HELMET and Ruler benchmarks demonstrate that LiteLong achieves competitive long-context performance and can seamlessly integrate with other long-dependency enhancement methods. LiteLong makes high-quality long-context data synthesis more accessible by reducing both computational and data engineering costs, facilitating further research in long-context language training.

LiteLong: Resource-Efficient Long-Context Data Synthesis for LLMs

LiDAR odometry is a critical component of SLAM in autonomous driving and robotics. Learning-based methods have shown remarkable performance by regressing relative poses in an end-to-end manner. However, when applying these trained models, originally developed on the widely used KITTI dataset, to other scenes, performance often drops significantly. In other words, existing methods struggle to generalize well to new environments. To address this challenge, we propose RCP-LO, a simple yet effective LiDAR odometry framework. 
We introduce a novel representation for relative poses, reformulating them as relative coordinates, which can then be solved using geometrical verification. This approach avoids overly simplified pose representations and makes better use of scene geometry, thereby improving generalization.
Moreover, to capture the inherent uncertainties in relative pose estimation from occluded LiDAR point clouds from dynamic environments, we adapt our framework to learn a denoising diffusion model, allowing for sampling plausible relative coordinates while improving robustness. We also introduce a differentiable geometric weighted singular value decomposition module, enabling efficient pose estimation through a single forward pass. 
Extensive experiments demonstrate that RCP-LO, trained exclusively on the KITTI dataset, achieves competitive performance compared to SOTA learning-based methods and generalizes effectively to the KITTI-360, Ford, and Oxford datasets. Our code will be made available upon acceptance.

RCP-LO: A Relative Coordinate Prediction Framework for Generalizable Deep LiDAR Odometry

Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) aims to map entities and relationships into a continuous vector space to facilitate reasoning and downstream tasks. Although previous KGE methods based on Euclidean, complex spaces, or hyperbolic spaces have performed well, they still struggle to effectively model Z-Paradox relation patterns which account for a large proportion in each knowledge graph. To address this issue, we propose a novel KGE method **FlorE** which integrates full Lorentz Group and directional offset operation in hyperbolic space for KGE task. Specifically, we incorporates the full Lorentz Group to enable the same relation in knowledge graph (KG) to perform indefinite isometry, thus avoiding the overlapping of entities. Meanwhile, we implement directional offset operation via exponential mapping to transform the relations to the same Lorentz manifold of the entities, thus maintaining geometric consistency for the relations and entities in KG. By integrating these two techniques, FlorE can effectively model the Z-Paradox relation patterns and improve the representation learning ability for KGs. Experiments on the five benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance. For the Z-Paradox relation patterns, the improvement achieves **26.7\%**, **15.6\%**, **35.4\%**, **33.7\%**, and **31.5\%** on FB15k-237, WN18RR, CoDEx-S, CoDEx-M and CoDEx-L, respectively.

FlorE: Integrating Full Lorentz Group and Directional Offsets for Effective Knowledge Graph Embedding

Branch-and-bound (B\&B) is a fundamental algorithmic framework for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems, where branching decisions critically affect solver efficiency. Recent learning-based methods apply imitation learning to select branching variables, but their deterministic predictions limit exploration and generalization. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that formulates branching variable selection as a conditional generative process, exploring deep-level decision features. Our approach leverages diffusion models to enable diverse and exploratory branching score generation, while consistency modeling distills this process into efficient one-step inference conditioned on the B\&B state. This mode allows our method to achieve both high-quality and fast branching decisions, significantly improving the overall performance of branch-and-bound solvers. Extensive experiments on challenging cross-scale and cross-category benchmarks demonstrate that our framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art imitation learning baselines, delivering substantial improvements in solution quality, computational efficiency, and inference speed.

Generative Branching for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is a critical area of research that focuses on identifying abnormal components within evolving graph structures that deviate significantly from typical patterns. Despite advancements in traditional temporal pattern mining and deep learning techniques, a comprehensive benchmarking framework for Dynamic Graph Anomaly Detection (DyGAD) has been lacking. To address this gap, we introduce \textbf{BAG}, the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for anomaly detection on dynamic graphs. BAG enables extensive evaluation of 25 leading DyGAD models, covering both classical approaches and advanced Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DGNNs), across 10 diverse real-world datasets that include both synthetic and naturally occurring anomalies. The framework supports evaluations at both the edge and node levels, offering a robust tool to advance DyGAD research. Our main finding is that Continuous-time Dynamic Graph (CTDG) models demonstrate superior performance and potential in detecting anomalies in dynamic graph edges, compared to Discrete-time Dynamic Graph (DTDG) models. Furthermore, the results reveal that existing methods are less effective at detecting organic anomalies, primarily due to the presence of temporal anomalies and highly imbalanced samples. The proposed BAG benchmark significantly enhances the evaluation of DyGAD methods by improving dataset selection, metric application, and model training. Moreover, BAG supports reproducibility and further exploration in this field by integrating all models, datasets, and evaluation protocols into an open-source repository at \url{https://github.com/opensource-cmd/BAG}.

BAG: Benchmarking Anomaly Detection on Dynamic Graphs

Large Language Models (LLMs) and causal learning each hold strong potential for clinical decision making (CDM). However, their synergy remains poorly understood, largely due to the lack of systematic benchmarks evaluating their integration in clinical risk prediction. In real-world healthcare, identifying features with causal influence on outcomes is crucial for actionable and trustworthy predictions. While recent work highlights LLMs' emerging causal reasoning abilities, there lacks comprehensive benchmarks to assess their causal learning and performance informed by causal features in clinical risk prediction. To address this, we introduce REACT-LLM, a benchmark designed to evaluate whether combining LLMs with causal features can enhance clinical prognostic performance and potentially outperform traditional machine learning (ML) methods. Unlike existing LLM-clinical benchmarks that often focus on a limited set of outcomes, REACT-LLM evaluates 7 clinical outcomes across 2 real-world datasets, comparing 15 prominent LLMs, 6 traditional ML models, and 3 causal discovery (CD) algorithms. Our findings indicate that while LLMs perform reasonably in clinical prognostics, they have not yet outperformed traditional ML models. Integrating causal features derived from CD algorithms into LLMs offers limited performance gains, primarily due to the strict assumptions of many CD methods, which are often violated in complex clinical data. While the direct integration yields limited improvement, our benchmark reveals a more promising synergy: LLMs serve effectively as knowledge-rich collaborators for identifying and optimizing causal features. Additionally, in-context learning improves LLM predictions when prompts are tailored to the task and model. Different LLMs show varying sensitivity to structured data encoding formats, for example, open-source models perform better with JSON, while smaller models benefit from narrative serialization. These findings highlight the need to match prompts and data formats to model architecture and pretraining. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/LinnaWang-Lena/REACT_LLM.

REACT-LLM: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Integration with Causal Features in Clinical Prognostic Tasks

Gait recognition has emerged as a promising biometric technique for long-distance and non-intrusive human identification. While Transformers have revolutionized vision tasks, their adaptation to gait recognition remains underexplored due to domain-specific challenges such as sparse silhouette modality, spatial-temporal dynamics, fine-grained motion cues, and limited training data. In this paper, we propose Gait Transformer (GaT), an end-to-end Transformer backbone specifically tailored for silhouette-based gait recognition. GaT introduces three key components: (1) a hybrid patch embedding module that combines convolutional stems with group-batch normalization to enhance structural preservation; (2) a decomposed token mixer that explicitly models both short-range and long-range dependencies across spatial-temporal dimensions; and (3) a hybrid positional encoding strategy that integrates absolute, relative, and rotary embeddings to support efficient training under data scarcity. Without relying on any pretraining, GaT achieves state-of-the-art performance on Gait3D, GREW, and CCGR-MINI.

Gait Transformer: End-to-End Transformer Backbone for Gait Recognition

Diffusion models have revealed powerful potential in all-in-one image restoration (AiOIR), which is talented in generating abundant texture details. The existing AiOIR methods either retrain a diffusion model or fine-tune the pretrained diffusion model with extra conditional guidance. However, they often suffer from high inference costs and limited adaptability to diverse degradation types. In this paper, we propose an efficient AiOIR method, Diffusion Once and Done (DOD), which aims to achieve superior restoration performance with only one-step sampling of Stable Diffusion (SD) models. Specifically, multi-degradation feature modulation is first introduced to capture different degradation prompts with a pretrained diffusion model. Then, parameter-efficient conditional low-rank adaptation integrates the prompts to enable the fine-tuning of the SD model for adapting to different degradation types. Besides, a high-fidelity detail enhancement module is integrated into the decoder of SD to improve structural and textural details. Experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms existing diffusion-based restoration approaches in both visual quality and inference efficiency.

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