Call for Papers
Important Dates
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Submission deadline
August 24, 2026August 31, 2026 - Notification of acceptance September 23, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline September 30, 2026
- Workshop date November 8, 2026
Topics of Interest
Submissions are welcome across—but not limited to—the following themes.
Generating Explanation Narratives
- From artifacts to narratives: turning attributions, counterfactuals & saliency into language
- Multimodal explanations (text, visuals, tables, code)
- Agentic & multi-agent explanation pipelines
- Causal and structured grounding of explanations
- Narrative planning, composition & audience framing
- Retrieval- and tool-augmented explanation generation
Trustworthy & Interpretable Explanations
- Faithfulness and factual consistency of narratives
- Detecting and mitigating hallucinated explanations
- Mechanistic interpretability & circuit-level analysis
- Aligning narratives with the model's actual reasoning
- Evaluation: automatic metrics, human studies & benchmarks
- Reproducibility and robustness
Human-Centered & Responsible XAI
- Interactive and conversational explanations
- Personalized, audience-adaptive explanations
- Actionable recourse and human-in-the-loop decisions
- High-stakes applications (healthcare, finance, public sector)
- Auditing, compliance & regulation (EU AI Act, GDPR)
- Responsible AI governance and risk
We encourage approaches grounded in structured explanation artifacts, rather than direct prompting of LLMs to generate post-hoc explanations without explicit XAI grounding.
Submission Guidelines
Paper length and format
- Full papers — 10 pages excluding references; mature and validated research contributions, presented orally.
- Short papers — 4 pages excluding references; preliminary, late-breaking, or exploratory work, presented as spotlights.
- All submissions must use the official CEUR-WS paper template, comply with the CEUR-WS formatting guidelines, and be anonymized for double-blind review.
Review process
- Double-blind review with at least two Program Committee reviewers per submission.
- Conflicts of interest and all review procedures strictly follow the official CIKM 2026 policies and guidelines.
Submission site
- Submit your paper through the CMT platform here.
Proceedings
- Subject to receiving a sufficient number of submissions, the workshop proceedings will be published in CEUR-WS.
Presentation
- Full papers are presented orally; short papers as spotlights.
- Both formats may include a poster to foster informal discussion.
For any questions regarding the workshop or the submission process, please feel free to contact us at vineis@diag.uniroma1.it.