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MCML at AAAI 2026

19 Accepted Papers (14 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 19 papers to AAAI 2026: 14 Main, and 5 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!

Main Track (14 papers)

B. BühlerI. BuenoE. 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. DOI GitHub

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. DOI

C. Fiedler
Statistical Learning Theory for Distributional Classification.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI

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. DOI

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. DOI

Y. Lei • X. Ge • Y. Zhang • Y. Yang • B. Ma
Do Large Language Models Think like the Brain? Sentence-Level Evidences from Layer-Wise Embeddings and fMRI.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI

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. DOI

Y. Wang •  Aniri • J. Bi • S. Pirk • Y. Ma
ASCD: Attention-Steerable Contrastive Decoding for Reducing Hallucination in MLLM.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI

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. DOI

S. Wang • J. He • N. Andreo • X. Zhu
GEWDiff: Geometric Enhanced Wavelet-based Diffusion Model for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI

M. Wever • M. MuschalikF. Fumagalli • M. Lindauer
HyperSHAP: Shapley Values and Interactions for Explaining Hyperparameter Optimization.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI

M. Wei • K. Yuan • S. Li • Y. ZhouL. BaiN. 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. DOI

Y. Yeganeh • G. Guvercin • N. NavabA. Farshad
Conformable Convolution for Topologically Constrained Learning of Complex Anatomical Structures.
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI GitHub

W. Zhang • Q. Cheng • D. Skuddis • N. Zeller • D. Cremers • N. Haala
HI-SLAM2: Geometry-Aware Gaussian SLAM for Fast Monocular Scene Reconstruction (Abstract Reprint).
AAAI 2026 - 40th Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Singapore, Jan 20-27, 2026. DOI GitHub

Workshops (5 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

A. FonoG. 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. 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

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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