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Nine Accepted Papers (6 Main, and 3 Workshops)

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

We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 9 papers to AAAI 2026: 6 Main, and 3 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (6 papers)

H. Chen • J. Li • Y. ZhangJ. 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.

P. HofmanY. SaleE. 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

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. KolpaczkiE. 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. JavanmardiE. 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

Workshops (3 papers)

T. DeckerV. 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

X. XueX. 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

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.

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