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Ocean exploration requires effective collaboration between the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). We propose UACOF, a USV-AUV collaboration framework that enhances multi-AUV performance under extreme sea conditions. The framework includes high-precision multi-AUV location via USV path planning with Fisher information matrix optimization and reinforcement learning training for cooperative tasks. Experimental results show UACOF&#39;s superior feasibility, performance, coordination and robustness in extreme conditions.

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UACOF: A USV-AUV Collaboration Framework for Underwater Tasks Under Extreme Sea Conditions (Student Abstract)

### Welcome to the 9th annual workshop on Naval Applications of Machine Learning!

NAML is the premier annual event showcasing current machine learning research relevant to Naval applications. We welcome participation from the defense community, industry, and academia. The NAML workshop is an opportunity for researchers from Navy research and development centers and our partner organizations to exchange technical ideas and to come together as a team. 
 Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific is partnering with AFCEA San Diego chapter to host the workshop.

The goals of NAML are:

* To spread awareness of current machine learning research relevant to Naval applications
* To connect machine learning researchers with experts in military requirements
* To build and strengthen collaborations within the defense research community

#### *"What we do as a Navy is a human business. Don’t pass up an opportunity to come together as a team. Don’t pass up leadership opportunities, and don’t outsource them to a PowerPoint. If you have an opportunity to come together as a team, to increase belonging, do it."*
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NAML 2025

The 9th annual workshop on Naval Applications of Machine Learning is an opportunity for researchers from Navy research and development centers and our partner organizations to exchange technical ideas and to come together as a team. The goals of NAML are to spread awareness of current machine learning research relevant to Naval applications, to connect machine learning researchers with experts in military requirements and to build and strengthen collaborations within the defense research community.

Ocean exploration requires effective collaboration between the unmanned surface vehicle (USV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). We propose UACOF, a USV-AUV collaboration framework that enhances multi-AUV performance under extreme sea conditions. The framework includes high-precision multi-AUV location via USV path planning with Fisher information matrix optimization and reinforcement learning training for cooperative tasks. Experimental results show UACOF's superior feasibility, performance, coordination and robustness in extreme conditions.

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We are pleased to announce the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), which will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from February 25 to March 4, 2025.

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. AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and a range of other activities to be announced.

### [Invited Speakers](https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/aaai-25-invited-speakers/)

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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. AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and a range of other activities to be announced.



In this student paper, we report on our project to enhance road safety in South Carolina (SC) by analyzing traffic data provided by the Department of Transportation and evaluating the impact of a school-level student driver education program called Alive@25. We improve the understanding of road safety using these traffic and training data to understand collision patterns and areas for improvement and assess training coverage gaps. Our approach combines geospatial analysis, economic impact assessment, temporal trend analysis, and interactive visualizations while leveraging AI techniques to clean and analyze extensive datasets. Key findings revealed higher collision rates in urban counties and rising collision rates in mostly rural areas, where Alive@25 participation is declining. These insights led to recommendations for improving road infrastructure and expanding safety training programs. This research demonstrates the potential of AI-driven insights to inform timely, cost-effective interventions and promote multi-stakeholder engagement in addressing public safety challenges while teaching students data science and AI skills and civic engagement.

Towards Enhancing Road Safety in South Carolina Using Insights from Traffic and Driver-Education Data (Student Abstract)

We propose the Next Sentence Prediction (NSP) task as a simple, objective, scalable, automated way to test ChatGPT’s text comprehension. Given a context excerpted from a children’s story, the task is to distinguish the next story sentence from a later sentence in the story. We analyze how ChatGPT’s performance on this task is related to various features of the text, using data from English and Swahili children’s stories.

Using Next Sentence Prediction to Test ChatGPT’s Text Comprehension (Student Abstract)

In recent years, reinforcement learning has been widely applied in the field of games. However, most studies focus on assisting agents to achieve victory, with less attention paid to whether the agents exhibit human-like characteristics. In order to build human-like agents with high performance, we propose a method for learning the strategies of human players in modern three-dimensional video games. Our method utilizes a hierarchical framework, learning basic behaviors and intentions of human players at the lower level through imitation learning, and generalized policies at the high level through reinforcement learning. Compared with other existing methods, our method demonstrates significant advantages in learning human-like strategies in complex environments.

Towards Building Human-like Smart Agents in Modern 3D Video Games (Student Abstract)

Increasing student populations and diverse course offerings have led to perceived inequities in U.S. high school course scheduling. Traditional integer programming (IP) methods for the High School Scheduling Problem (HSSP) fail to address these fairness concerns. This research introduces the Fair High School Scheduling Problem (FHSSP), an extension of the HSSP that incorporates student preferences and fairness principles from market design. We develop an IP model to generate course schedules that are both feasible and equitable. Tested on real course request data from a California high school, our model successfully produces schedules that ensure fairness without compromising feasibility. These results demonstrate the potential of our approach to enhance fairness in high school scheduling and its applicability to various real-world scheduling challenges. Additionally, this study highlights the feasibility of integrating human preferences and emotions into mathematical models, promoting more inclusive and balanced allocation systems.

High School Course Scheduling: Student Preferences and Fairness Constraints (Student Abstract)

Causal Inference (CI) plays a crucial role in building unbiased recommender systems. However, most current CI-based debiasing methods only pay attention on either popularity bias or conformity bias. This paper presents a Disentangled Counterfactual Reasoning framework to alleviate dual biases in recommendation, so called DCR. Concretely, we consider the impact of both item popularity and user conformity during training, and separate their indirect effects by disentangling user and item embeddings into biased and unbiased components. In the inference stage, we perform counterfactual reasoning to simultaneously mitigate the indirect and direct effects of bias factors. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our DCR.

Alleviating Dual Biases in Recommendation (Student Abstract)

A vast amount of textual data is added to the internet daily, making utilization and interpretation of textual data difficult and cumbersome.
As a result, automatic text summarization is crucial for extracting relevant information, saving precious time.
Although many transformer models excel in summarization, they are constrained by their input size, preventing them from processing texts longer than their context size.
This study introduces several novel algorithms that allow any LLM to efficiently overcome its input size limitation, effectively utilizing its full potential without any architectural modifications.
We test our algorithms on texts with more than 70,000 words, and our experiments show a significant increase in BERTScore with competitive ROUGE scores.

Automatic Summarization of Long Documents (Student Abstract)

In the rapidly advancing field of AI-assisted medical diagnosis, the generation of medical reports for Chest X-rays (CXR) has significantly improved with the increased availability of radiographs and their corresponding reports. However, these reports often contain complex medical terminology, making them difficult for patients and non-healthcare professionals to understand. In this study, we introduce a strategy called Chained Prompting for Improved Readability of Medical Reports (CPIR-MR), which translates original medical reports into more comprehensible language. Our primary contribution is the creation of a new extension to the IU X-Ray dataset, providing Simplified Medical Reports (SMRs) generated by CPIR-MR. Additionally, we demonstrate that standard methodologies can effectively produce these simplified reports by proposing a multi-modal text decoder (MTD) that combines BLIP with a classification network to generate simplified medical explanations (SMEs) when fine-tuned on SMRs.

From Complexity to Clarity: Transforming Chest X-ray Reports with Chained Prompting (Student Abstract)

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of publicly available text. However, the current training frameworks take for granted that these annotations are accurate reflections of the authors’ true intents. This study questions that assumption by examining the gaps between writers’ actual psychological states and the inferences made by third-party annotators. We explore how readers interpret psychological cues in text and demonstrate that third-person annotations often fail to align with first-person realities. By integrating both first- and third-person annotations, we develop computational models that reveal significant biases in how psychological states are perceived and the downstream effects these perceptions have on reader behavior. Our findings challenge the foundational assumptions of LLM training, suggesting that the reliance on potentially flawed third-person annotations could impact model accuracy and real-world applications.

Understanding Annotator Perception: Modeling Psychological Inference from First- and Third-Person Annotations (Student Abstract)

Achieving optimal design is a crucial aspect of any design process for safe and efficient operation. Such tasks typically require numerous simulations over many iterations, which can become computationally expensive. This paper proposes a novel method that combines Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs) with a Genetic Algorithm to optimize the parameters of an airfoil that aims to achieve favourable aerodynamic conditions. Traditional solvers are computationally expensive for performing such tasks, but using PINNs can significantly reduce this while keeping accuracy high. The proposed approach shows the advantage of using PINNs in optimizing complex engineering problems.

A Hybrid Framework for Airfoil Optimization: Combining PINNs and Genetic Algorithm (Student Abstract)

Machine unlearning is becoming increasingly important as deep models become more prevalent, particularly when there are frequent requests to remove the influence of specific training data due to privacy concerns or erroneous sensing signals. Spatial-temporal Graph Neural Networks, in particular, have been widely adopted in real-world applications that demand efficient unlearning, yet research in this area remains in its early stages. In this paper, we introduce STEPS, a framework specifically designed to address the challenges of spatio-temporal graph unlearning. Our results demonstrate that STEPS not only ensures data continuity and integrity but also significantly reduces the time required for unlearning, while minimizing the accuracy loss in the new model compared to a model with 0% unlearning.

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