Agent4IR

AI Agent for Information Retrieval (Agent4IR)

28 April Morning Session, 2025, Sydney, Australia, The Web Conference 2025

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.

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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
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Call for Papers

Fast Track Guidelines for Authors, please see below ✴️ NEW!!

Important Dates (AOE)

Workshop paper submission: 18 December, 2024, 16 January, 2025
Workshop paper notification: 13 January, 2025, 27 January, 2025
Workshop paper camera-ready: 2 February, 2024, 7 February, 2025
Workshops: 28 April Morning Session, 2025 🎉

Guidelines

We mainly follow the WWW 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 8 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited references (paper content is limited to 8 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.
- Formatting Requirements. Submissions must be in English, in double-column format, and must adhere to the ACM template and format (also available in Overleaf). Word users may use the Word Interim Template and the recommended setting for LaTeX is: \documentclass[sigconf, anonymous, review]{acmart}.
- Papers accepted by a workshop can be included in the Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2025, subject to meeting the camera-ready timeline. Workshop papers that have been previously published or are under review for another journal, conference or workshop should not be considered for publication.
- Papers should be submitted in PDF format, electronically, using the EasyChair submission system. Ensure submitting to Agent4IR workshop.
- Contact: ai4agent@gmail.com

Tracks

We emphasize that the topics list is not exhaustive and welcome submissions in any related areas. Besides regular research papers, though no need to specify your track during submission, we also welcome other tracks, including

Demo Track, which discusses the designing details about agentic IR systems.
Applied/Industry Track, which investigates applied challenges in agent for IR.
Dataset/Benchmark Track, which introduces new dataset, benchmarks regarding agent for IR.

Note: (1)Workshop papers that have been previously published or are under review for another journal, conference or workshop should not be considered for publication in the Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2025. (2) Each accepted paper needs to have at least one full workshop registration. At Least one author for each accepted paper must be present during the talk to take questions from the audience during the live QA. Please follow the registration link for WWW 2025 registration

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Fast Track Guidelines for Authors ✴️ NEW!!

Appendix Requirements:

- Include an Appendix in your submission with:
  - Reviews from the main review process (copy and paste them).
  - A section titled “Improvements” where you describe: (1) Any issues from the reviews you addressed and how. (2) Note: Only light revisions are expected. Heavy changes are not allowed. If your work is already in good shape, no revisions are necessary.

Review Integrity:

- Modifying or tweaking the content of review comments is strictly prohibited.

Privacy Commitment:

- Reviews submitted in the Appendix will remain private and will only be accessible to workshop organizers. They will not be shared with third parties under any circumstances.

Conflict of Interest (COI):

- If there is a conflict of interest (e.g., submissions from colleagues, co-organizers, or co-authors), inform us immediately.
- Authors with COI will be directed to submit elsewhere.

Publication in ACM Companion Proceedings:

- By default, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Companion proceedings.
- If you wish to opt-out of publication, notify us upon acceptance.

Important Notes:

- Failure to follow these guidelines may result in penalties or rejection of your submission.
- Ensure that your submission adheres to these requirements to expedite the review process.