Topic Description

The VISTA: Visionary Innovation in Standards and Technology of GenAI workshop at ICDM 2025 examines the intersection of Generative AI (GenAI) advancements and evolving community and legal standards. As GenAI transforms industries, it raises challenges in legal compliance and common sense considerations. This workshop convenes researchers, industry experts, and legal scholars to explore the alignment between technical innovation and regulatory frameworks, fostering discussions on responsible GenAI development.

Generative AI (GenAI) models, including large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models, are reshaping industries by automating content creation, enhancing decision-making, and enabling new forms of user interaction. However, their widespread adoption presents challenges in both technology and standards. How these new technologies perform with legal compliance and respect to common sense remains to be explored. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to explore the interaction of advanced GenAI technology and evolving corresponding standards. It aims to foster discussions on future innovations of GenAI in a regulated landscape.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions on innovations in GenAI at the intersection of technology and standards. We are particularly interested in contributions that align GenAI technologies with legal regulations and common sense considerations. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

New GenAI models with legal considerations

Novel GenAI model training and inference paradigm with legal compliance

Efficient GenAI model customization with respect to legal regulations and common sense

Analysis of data influence on GenAI models' behaviors related to common sense

Copyright challenges in GenAI, including detection, quantification, and mitigation techniques

Machine unlearning of GenAI models for legal compliance

Implementations of GenAI standards in various applications

Case studies of legal challenges in GenAI applications

GenAI-powered applications in digital finance

Technical contributions to ensure GenAI's compliance with financial regulations

GenAI applications in legal research, including contract analysis and case prediction

GenAI applications in risk management and regulatory monitoring

This workshop aims to bring together technical researchers, legal experts, and financial regulators to collaborate on developing comprehensive and practical approaches to GenAI development and its applications. The focus will be on ensuring legal compliance while integrating common-sense considerations.

Submission Details

We invite both research and vision papers to contribute to the intersection of technology and standards in GenAI. Submissions should follow the ICDM regular research paper format guidelines and be submitted via Wi-Lab. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop in either oral or poster presentations. The reviewing process will be double-blind. No formal proceedings will be generated from this workshop. Accepted paper will be indexed in EI (Engineering Index).

  • Paper format: Up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices)
  • Submission deadline: August 29th, 2025
  • Notification of acceptance: September 15th, 2025
  • Camera-ready deadline: September 25th, 2025
  • Workshop date: November 12th, 2025 (tentative)
  • Contact for questions:vistagenai@gmail.com
Submit Your Paper

Preliminary List of Invited Speakers

Vladimir Braverman
Vladimir Braverman
Johns Hopkins University
Matyas Bohacek
Matyas Bohacek
Stanford & Google DeepMind
Ang Li
Ang Li
University of Maryland

Workshop Schedule

Time Session Speaker / Notes
2:00 – 2:10 pm Opening Remarks Workshop Organizers
2:10 – 2:40 pm Keynote Talk 1 Vladimir Braverman
2:40 – 3:10 pm Keynote Talk 2 Ang Li
3:10 – 3:40 pm Keynote Talk 3 Matyas Bohacek
3:40 – 4:00 pm Remarks and Transition to Posters Workshop Organizers
4:00 – 4:30 pm ☕ Coffee Break & Poster Session (5 Papers) Informal discussion with poster authors and networking

Accepted Papers

S44206

SIFT: Scene-Imagination-based Feature Reweighting

Authors: Jiayi Qiu
Contact Author: Jiayi Qiu, United States
S44205

Building Self-Awareness of LLMs Over Weight Quantization

Authors: Alexander Poon and Zhaozhuo Xu
Contact Author: Zhaozhuo Xu, USA
S44204

Mitigating Copyright Violations in LLMs via In-Context Role-Playing and Instructional Framing

Authors: Linxi Wu
Contact Author: Linxi Wu, United States
S44203

CLMC: Code-Level Metacognition for LLM Agents

Authors: Runyang Jian, Yujia Shang, Zunhao Zhu, Kunpeng Liu, Chongyu Bao, and Xiaolan Liu
Contact Author: Xiaolan Liu, United Kingdom
S44202

SpireEval: Transforming Gameplay into Sequential Datasets for LLM Decision-Making Analysis

Authors: Maxim Suslov, Shivashish Khanna, and Zirui Liu
Contact Author: Zirui Liu, United States
S44201

Multi-Agent Framework for Controllable and Protected Generative Content Creation: Addressing Copyright and Provenance in AI-Generated Media

Authors: Haris Khan, Sadia Asif, and Shumaila Asif
Contact Author: Haris Khan, Pakistan

Organizers

Denghui Zhang
Denghui Zhang
Stevens Institute of Technology
Zhaozhuo Xu
Zhaozhuo Xu
Stevens Institute of Technology
Qingyun Wang
Qingyun Wang
College of William & Mary
Jimin Huang
Jimin Huang
The Fin AI
Jing Gao
Jing Gao
Purdue University
Yide Ran
Yide Ran
Stevens Institute of Technology

Contact

For any questions or inquiries about the workshop, please contact the organizers at:

vistagenai@gmail.com