#AAAI2025 workshops round-up 1: Artificial intelligence for music, and towards a knowledge-grounded scientific research lifecycle

The workshop featured 20 accepted papers across diverse application areas, including five oral presentations and 15 posters. Research topics ranged from agent debate evaluation and taxonomy expansion to hypothesis generation, AI4Research benchmarks, caption generation, drug discovery, and financial auditing. Additionally, the workshop hosted a dedicated mentoring session for early-career researchers. The workshop had six inspiring invited talks from academic and industry experts covering a wide range of research topics. Professor Wei Wang (UCLA) presented work on multimodal scientific foundation models for knowledge extraction and synthesis.