19.01.2026

MCML at AAAI 2026

17 Accepted Papers (12 Main, and 5 Workshops)

40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 17 papers to AAAI 2026: 12 Main, and 5 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (12 papers)

B. Bühler • I. Bueno • E. Kasneci
Democratizing Writing Support with AI: Insights from One Year of Real-World Interactions with an Open-Access Writing Feedback Tool.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. GitHub

H. Chen • J. Li • Y. Zhang • J. Bi • Y. Xia • J. Gu • V. Tresp
AUVIC: Adversarial Unlearning of Visual Concepts for Multi-modal Large Language Models.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

C. Fiedler
Statistical Learning Theory for Distributional Classification.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

P. Hofman • Y. Sale • E. Hüllermeier
Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning: One Size Does Not Fit All.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

X. Jian • P. Zhang • L. Tian • F. Ji • W. Liang • W. P. Tay • B. Wen • F. Krahmer
Conformal Prediction for Multi-Source Detection on a Network.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

Y. Lei • X. Ge • Y. Zhang • Y. Yang • B. Ma
Do Large Language Models Think Like the Brain? Sentence-Level Evidence from fMRI and Hierarchical Embeddings.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

G. D. Pelegrina • P. Kolpaczki • E. Hüllermeier
Shapley Value Approximation Based on k-Additive Games.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

N. Walha • S. G. Gruber • T. Decker • Y. Yang • A. Javanmardi • E. Hüllermeier • F. Buettner
Fine-Grained Uncertainty Decomposition in Large Language Models: A Spectral Approach.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

M. Wever • M. Muschalik • F. Fumagalli • M. Lindauer
HyperSHAP: Shapley Values and Interactions for Explaining Hyperparameter Optimization.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

M. Wei • K. Yuan • S. Li • Y. Zhou • L. Bai • N. Navab • H. Ren • H. J. Lee • T. Vercauteren • N. Padoy
Where It Moves, It Matters: Referring Surgical Instrument Segmentation via Motion.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

Y. Yeganeh • R. Xiao • G. Guvercin • N. Navab • A. Farshad
Conformable Convolution for Topologically Aware Learning of Complex Anatomical Structures.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv

W. Zhang • Q. Cheng • D. Skuddis • N. Zeller • D. Cremers • N. Haala
HI-SLAM2: Geometry-Aware Gaussian SLAM for Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv GitHub

Workshops (5 papers)

T. Decker • V. Tresp
Towards Quantifying Incompatibilities in Evaluation Metrics for Feature Attributions.
XAI4Science @AAAI 2026 - 2nd Workshop XAI4Science: From Understanding Model Behavior to Discovering New Scientific Knowledge at the 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

A. Fono • G. Kutyniok • H. Boche
How to realize efficient Spiking Neural Networks?
MATH4AI @AAAI 2026 - Workshop on Foretell of Future AI from Mathematical Foundation at the 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

X. Xue • X. Zhu
Towards Unified Vision Language Models for Forest Ecological Analysis in Earth Observation.
AI4ES @AAAI 2026 - Workshop on AI for Environmental Science at the 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv GitHub

S. Zhao • S. Scepanovic • G. Baranyi • Z. Xiong • D. Quercia • X. Zhu
Ecological Determinants of Antidepressants Prescriptions in England: Using Machine Learning for Causal Discovery.
AI4ES @AAAI 2026 - Workshop on AI for Environmental Science at the 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

Y. Zhang • S. Tang • Z. Li • Z. Han • V. Tresp
WebArbiter: A Principle-Guided Reasoning Process Reward Model for Web Agents.
LaMAS @AAAI 2026 - Workshop on LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems: Towards Responsible, Reliable, and Scalable Agentic Systems at the 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL

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