Half-Day Workshop · Co-located with CIKM 2026

LLM4XAI

Generative Models for Explainable AI Narratives

November 8, 2026  •  Rome, Italy

About the Workshop

Bridging generative AI and explainability research.

As AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, regulatory and societal demands for transparency and interpretability continue to grow. While classical Explainable AI (XAI) methods produce structured technical artifacts (e.g., feature attributions and counterfactual examples), these remain difficult to interpret for non-technical users and only partially meet usability and legal requirements. Large Language Models (LLMs) can transform these structured outputs into accessible natural-language XAI narratives, but they introduce new challenges regarding faithfulness, hallucination, and epistemic misalignment.

LLM4XAI sits at the intersection of XAI, NLP, IR, and HCI, investigating how generative systems can act as reliable mediators. The workshop provides a multidisciplinary forum for both academia and industry, focusing on the grounding, robustness, and real-world deployment of XAI narratives to ensure AI explanations bridge the gap between technical rigor and end-user accessibility.

We welcome contributions spanning methods, evaluation frameworks, human-subject studies, and position papers that advance our understanding of LLM-generated explanations — see the Call for Papers for topics of interest and submission details.

Key Dates

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) unless noted otherwise.

Submission Deadline
[DATE — TBD]
Notification of Acceptance
[DATE — TBD]
Camera-Ready Due
[DATE — TBD]
Workshop Date
November 8, 2026

Organizers

Main point of contact: Gabriele Tolomei & Vittoria Vineis

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Gabriele Tolomei
Lead Organizer
Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome · Co-Founder & CSO, tellmewAI
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Ziheng Chen
Co-Organizer
Senior Data Scientist, Walmart Global Tech
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Flavio Giorgi
Co-Organizer
Co-Founder, CEO & CTO, tellmewAI
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Vittoria Vineis
Co-Organizer
PhD Student, Data Science, Sapienza University of Rome
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Matteo Silvestri
Co-Organizer
PhD Student, Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome
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Fabiano Veglianti
Co-Organizer
PhD Student, Data Science, Sapienza University of Rome
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Lorenzo Antonelli
Co-Organizer
PhD Student, Sapienza University of Rome
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Edoardo Gabrielli
Co-Organizer
PhD Candidate, Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome