AI Agent for Information Retrieval (Agent4IR)

March 4th, 2025 in  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA @ AAAI2025

The field of information retrieval has significantly transformed with the integration of AI technologies. AI agents, especially those leveraging LLMs and vast computational power, have revolutionized information retrieval, processing, and presentation. LLM agents, with tool-call, advanced memory, reasoning, and planning capabilities, can perform complex tasks, engage in coherent conversations, and provide personalized responses. Despite these advancements, challenges such as ensuring relevance and accuracy, mitigating biases, providing real-time responses, and maintaining data security remain. This workshop is motivated by the need to explore these challenges, share innovative solutions, and discuss future directions. 

Topics Include but not limited to: 

• Agentic Retrieval System
• Agentic Conversational Recommendation
• AI Agent for Personalization
• AI Agent for Sequential Recommendation
• AI Agent for Contextual Information Retrieval
• AI Agents for Cross-lingual and Multimodal Retrieval
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation Searching System
• Optimization of AI Agent Retrieval Models
• Bias Mitigation in AI-driven Information Retrieval
• Interpretable Generative Retrieval System
• Adversarial Attacks and Defenses in Agentic Retrieval System
• Ethical Considerations in Agentic Information Retrieval
• Human-AI Collaboration in Information Retrieval
• Evaluation for Agentic Information Retrieval
• Scalability and Efficiency in AI Agent Retrieval

Important Dates (AOE) 

• August 18, 2024: Paper submission deadline
• August 30, 2024: Paper acceptance notification 
• September 20, 2024: Paper Camera-Ready 
• October 25, 2024: Workshop date

Guidelines

We mainly follow the CIKM guidelines for paper submission except for a single-blind peer review. All important guidelines are as follows:

• Single-blind peer review. There is no requirements for anonymous submission unless authors prefer. 
• Full papers cannot exceed 9 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited references (paper content is limited to 9 pages, that means that if you have an appendix, then it should be included within that page limit. It is also ok if you do not have an appendix and instead 9 pages of content). Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. 
• AAAI two-column format is often preferred. The AAAI 2024 Author Kit with style files, macros, and guidelines for this format is linked below. (Note that the 2024 author kit includes a AAAI copyright slug, which should be removed for workshop publications.)
• Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the EasyChair submission system. Ensure submitting to Agent4IR workshop.  

Workshop Chair:

 Qingsong Wen  ai4agent@gmail.com

Workshop Committee:

Yongfeng Zhang, Zhiwei Liu, Julian McAuley, Linsey Pang, Wei Liu, Philip S. Yu

Workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4ir/aaai-2025

Contact: ai4agent@gmail.com