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Yanran Li

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PhD student at Columbia University

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The work "An uncertainty-aware framework for multi-view animal pose estimation” at #AAAI26 workshop uses a Multi-view Transformer and a Variance-Inflated Ensemble Kalman Smoother to improve accuracy without needing extra labels. Huge for data-efficient biology research @aaai.org

27.01.2026 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can AI help us settle arguments? πŸ€–βš–οΈ
Spotted this fascinating poster at #AAAI26 by researchers from USC and Gachon University. They’re exploring how LLMs can mediate synchronous dispute dialogues, which are often high-emotion and high-conflict. @aaai.org

27.01.2026 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This framework, Compare&Generate,
at #AAAI2026 workshop tackles a major hurdle in synthetic data: quality control. Instead of just "thinking step-by-step," the model learns why one output is better than another to iteratively improve. @aaai.org

27.01.2026 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Offline RL often fails when agents accidentally drift into Out-of-Distribution (OOD) states. πŸ“‰
Fascinating poster at #AAAI26 on DASP (Density-Aware State Correction). Instead of just suppressing OOD actions, DASP uses a compact variational model to guide agents @aaai.org

26.01.2026 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Stop #AAAI26 to see VisionReward! πŸš€
This work introduces a fine-grained reward model that addresses reward hacking in image/video generation. By bridging the gap between interpretable learning and multi-dimensional optimization, they are setting a new standard @aaai.org

26.01.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This #AAAI2026 workshop talk on a new distributional treatment for time series anomaly detection is a paradigm shiftβ€”using Isolation Distributional Kernels (IDK). Fascinating to see how IDK^2 maps points through Hilbert spaces to detect group anomalies. @aaai.org

26.01.2026 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#AAAI26 on "Local Guidance for Configuration-Based Multi-Agent Pathfinding" (LG-LaCAM)! πŸ€–πŸ›°οΈ
Tomoki Arita and Keisuke Okumura are pushing the boundaries of MAPF by integrating local guidance into state-of-the-art LaCAM. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#AAAI26 poster hall: "UMNet: Uncertainty-guided Memory Network for Hyperspectral Pansharpening". πŸ›°οΈβœ¨
Xiaozheng Wang and the team at Tiangong University are using spatial-spectral uncertainty-guided loss to solve distortion issues in image fusion. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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at #AAAI2026 on "RECORd: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Reverse Engineering Codebase to Causal Relational Diagram." πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»πŸ”
By using reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) and multi-agent systems, this work transforms complex code into interpretable causal graphs. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Lexicographic Bandits" at #AAAI2026! 🎰bridging the gap between Regret Minimization and Best Arm Identification. In complex decision-making systems where objectives have a strict priority, finding the optimal balance is a tough challenge. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do we handle the computational burden of streaming data in Gaussian Processes? Some brilliant work on Distributed GP Experts today at #AAAI26. By using weighted sums for predictive means and variances, we can keep complexity in check while maintaining accuracy. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a great talk by Robin van der Laag at #AAAI26 on "Stochastic multi-objective optimisation." 🎯
Balancing competing objectives in a decision space vs. objective space is a classic challenge. This session provided some great insights into navigating these trade-offs effectively. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œFlash Embeddings for Online Learning of Categorical Features” at #AAAI2026
Fascinating approach to learning high-cardinality and recurring categorical data over timeβ€”with fixed memory constraints. @aaai.org

25.01.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just attended a fascinating talk on "Bandit Learning in Housing Markets" at #AAAI2026 πŸ πŸ“Š @aaai.org

Combining matching theory with multi-armed bandits to learn core allocationsβ€”both centralized and decentralized settings with provable regret bounds.

25.01.2026 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shift toward using LLMs for both predictions and natural-language explanations is a game-changer for transparency. Seeing impressive results from "TWICE-Rec" on generating high-quality rationales across diverse domains like fashion and scientific research. #AAAI2026 @aaai.org

24.01.2026 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do LLMs give unreliable recommendations? Often because we lose "evidence strength" during normalization. GUIDER leverages LLM logits to quantify uncertainty and uses a dynamic re-ranking strategy to boost transparency and trust. #AAAI2026 @aaai.org

24.01.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why State-Space Models for event cameras? MA-Mamba proves it! By integrating a Spatio-Temporal Association module, they’ve solved the "noisy & inconsistent" channel update issue in standard SSMs. Great results on DSEC and MVSEC #AAAI2026 @aaai.org

24.01.2026 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Deep dive into Hyperspectral Image SR today at #AAAI2026. The GEWDiff model uses an edge-aware EDM noise scheduler and a multi-level loss function to ensure structural invariance and stable convergence. Really clean results compared to other SOTA models. @aaai.org

24.01.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fascinated by the "Think-Free" ranking approach (TFRank) presented at #AAAI2026! πŸš€ It internalizes complex reasoning into small LLMs (<10B), achieving high-accuracy document ranking without the latency of explicit CoT. Practical, efficient, and very impressive. @aaai.org

24.01.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Real-time Novel View Synthesis with just 4 cameras? 🀯

Checked out the PHOTONS demo by China Telecom at #AAAI2026. It achieves 2K resolution at 25 FPS using a sparse view setup (only 4 RGB cameras).qq.com @aaai.org

24.01.2026 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ready to level up your career? πŸš€ Heading to the Job Fair #AAAI2026 today! If you're looking for new opportunities or a complete career pivot, this is the place to be. Time to network and make things happen! πŸ’Όβœ¨ @aaai.org

24.01.2026 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#AAAI2026 5K Fun Run at 6am πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈ Can't believe I actually saw the Merlion without its water fountain! @aaai.org

24.01.2026 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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High-quality Tabular Data Synthesis with Limited Samples! πŸš€The team from The University of Melbourne introduced CtrTab at #AAAI2026 It enhances diffusion models with a novel control mechanism to handle high-dimensional data constraints.πŸ“Š @aaai.org

23.01.2026 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why treat Time Series as just numbers? πŸ“‰πŸ€”

Fascinating talk at #AAAI2026 on using VLMs for Anomaly Detection:1️⃣ TS models lack 'world knowledge' (context). 2️⃣ LLMs lack 'visual understanding' of shapes.
@aaai.org
Solution: Plot the time series as images!

23.01.2026 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How do we reconcile Autoregressive vs. One-shot generative paradigms in Time Series? πŸ€”The TimeCAP presentation at #AAAI2026 offers a solution: during fine-tuning, we need to balance these complementary strengths while properly modeling multivariate dependencies. @aaai.org

23.01.2026 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2nd Invited Talk from Dr. Yolanda Gil at #AAAI2026 day2 🌟 can not agree more: AI should make us better people! @aaai.org

23.01.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2nd Invited Talk from Dr. Yolanda Gil at #AAAI2026 day2 🌟 can not agree more: AI should make us better people! @aaai.org

23.01.2026 09:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As a #Zootopia fan, this poster at #AAAI2026 is really appealing🀩!🐰🦊 @aaai.org Very creative design and make me thinking about how to attract other's when making posters

23.01.2026 09:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Found a gem for the GP & Causal Inference crowd at #AAAI2026! πŸ’Ž 'CaDyT'β€”a new framework for Causal Structure Learning in Dynamical Systems. It cleverly uses GP to model continuous-time dynamics from irregularly sampled data, using an MDL score to find causal graph @aaai.org

23.01.2026 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Standard RDD breaks when people game the system. At #AAAI2026, they propose a Bayesian Mixture Model (BMTM) to handle threshold manipulation in marketing campaignsβ€”effectively separating 'strategic bunching' from organic behavior.
A smart fix for causal inference! @aaai.org

23.01.2026 08:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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