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On 30 June - 5 July 2025, CMAI researchers will participate at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), the flagship conference of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the International Neural Network Society.

The Centre for Multimodal AI will have a strong presence at the conference. The following papers authored/co-authored by CMAI members will be presented at IJCNN 2025:

• VLLMs Provide Better Context for Emotion Understanding Through Common Sense Reasoning, by Alexandros Xenos, Niki Foteinopoulou, Ioanna Ntinou, Ioannis Patras, Georgios Tzimiropoulos
• ImprovNet - Generating Controllable Musical Improvisations with Iterative Corruption Refinement, by Keshav Bhandari, Sungkyun Chang, Tongyu Lu, Fareza Rahman Enus, Louis Bradshaw, Dorien Herremans, Simon Colton
• Mamba-Diffusion Model with Learnable Wavelet for Controllable Symbolic Music Generation, by Jincheng Zhang, George Fazekas, Charalampos Saitis
• Towards a Unified Representation Evaluation Framework Beyond Downstream Tasks, by Christos Plachouras, Julien Guinot, George Fazekas, Elio Quinton, Emmanouil Benetos, Johan Pauwels

The following presentation from CMAI members will also be made at IJCNN 2025:

• Split Fine-Tuning of BERT-based Music Models in the Edge-Cloud Continuum: An Empirical Analysis, by Bradley Aldous, Wai Fong Tam, Ahmed M. A. Sayed

See you in Rome!