NEC Labs America Attends the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence #AAAI25

February 27, 2025|byNEC Labs America|inEvents|tagsAAAI, AAAI25, abhishek aich, agentic llm, ai, artificial intelligence, christopher malon, llm, lu an tang, martin renqiang min, mohammad a khojastepour, peng yuan, shaobo han, wenchao yu

Our NEC Lab America team attended the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from February 25 to March 4, 2025.

The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines.
Our team presented technical papers, leading special tracks, delivering talks on key topics, participating in workshops, conducting tutorials, and showcasing research in poster sessions.

The NEC Labs Booth #208 was very busy Thursday through Saturday.

Presentations

Incident Diagnosing and Reporting System based on Retrieval Augmented Large Language Model Poster Presentation

Lu-An Tang, Senior Researcher, Data Science and System Security
Peng Yuan, Senior Associate Researcher, Data Science and System Security
Friday, February 28^th, 12:00pm-2:30pm

Lu-An Tang

Peng Yuan

TimeCAP: Learning to Contextualize, Augment, and Predict Time Series Events with Large Language Model Agents Poster Presentation

Wenchao Yu, Senior Researcher, Data Science and System Security
Saturday, March 1, 12:30pm-2:30pm
Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11418

Learning Disentangled Equivariant Representation for Explicitly Controllable 3D Molecule Generation Poster Presentation

Martin Min, Department Head, Machine Learning
Saturday, March 1, 12:30pm-2:30pm
Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15086

RAG-check: Evaluating Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation Performance Poster Presentation

Mohammad A. Khojastepour, Senior Researcher, Integrated Systems
Monday, March 3^rd
Paper: https://www.nec-labs.com/blog/rag-check-evaluating-multimodal-retrieval-augmented-generation-performance/

Reducing Hallucinations of Medical Multimodal Large Language Models with Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation Poster Presentation

Christopher Malon, Senior Researcher, Machine Learning
Tuesday, March 4^th
Paper on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15040

VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Banks Poster Presentation

Shaobo Han, Senior Researcher, Optical Networking & Sensing
Tuesday, March 4^th
Paper: https://www.nec-labs.com/blog/vb-lora-extreme-parameter-efficient-fine-tuning-with-vector-banks/

Scalable and Efficient Artificial Intelligence Systems (SEAS) Workshop

Abhishek Aich, Researcher, Media Analytics is the lead organizer for the workshop
Tuesday, March 4^th
Organizers: https://seasworkshop.github.io/aaai25/organizers.html

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