Call for Papers

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:


  • Novel developments for existing XAI techniques, including: global methods such as intrinsically interpretable models or surrogate modeling; local methods such as counterfactual explanations, feature attribution and argumentation; information-theoretic methods; and qualitative and quantitative metrics for explanation quality.

  • Practical deployment of XAI within financial domains: best practices and lessons learned.

  • Reviews highlighting important challenges and open problems within XAI for Finance.

  • User studies of consumer response to XAI techniques and AI model outputs.

  • Novel datasets for use within the XAI in Finance community.

  • Discussion on industry areas that are less automated and how best to leverage XAI moving forward.

  • Quantitative approaches to financial regulation description and enforcement.

Submission deadline: 8th October 2021, 23:59 (anywhere on earth)

Author notification: 22nd October 2021

Workshop: 3rd November 2021, 13:00h - 17:00h GMT

We invite submissions on EasyChair of short papers (4 pages plus up to one page for references) and long papers (8 pages plus up to one page for references).

Papers must be formatted according to ACM’s sigconf layout. Papers must be submitted in pdf format on EasyChair and do not need to be anonymous.