Call for Papers

We encourage the submission of research exploring developmental perspectives on AI, spanning developmental psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and machine learning, as well as papers introducing new developmental datasets and benchmarks for AI. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Core Knowledge and Inductive Biases

• Development of Representations and Concepts

• Learning and Generalization from Limited Experience 

• Development of Multimodal Representations 

• Social Learning and Social Cognition in Humans and Machines

• Intuitive Physics, Causal Reasoning, and World Models

• Few-Shot and Data-Efficient Learning Inspired by Development

• Development of Representations in Brains and Machines  

• Visual Representation Learning Inspired by Development

• Language Acquisition and Developmental Language Learning

• Developmental Neuroscience and Computational Accounts of Early Learning

• Developmental Datasets and Naturalistic Learning Environments

• Computational Models of Cognitive Development

• Developmentally Inspired Machine Learning Architectures

• Developmental Benchmarks for AI Systems

• AI as a Tool for Studying Cognitive and Brain Development

Submission Instructions

Format

• Submissions must use the NeurIPS 2026 LaTeX style file and be submitted as a single PDF in English.

• Full papers: up to 8 pages (excluding references and appendices).

• Extended abstracts: up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices).

• Supplementary material and appendices may follow the references; reviewers are not required to read them.

• Submissions must be fully anonymized for double-blind review: no author names, affiliations, or acknowledgments, and prior work cited in the third person.

Review and policy

• All submissions are made through OpenReview.

• Each submission receives at least three reviews.

• The workshop is non-archival: there are no published proceedings, and authors retain the right to submit their work elsewhere, subject to the policies of the other venue. Accepted papers will be posted on OpenReview and the workshop website.

• Submissions must describe new, unpublished work. Papers that have already appeared at an archival venue are not eligible.

• Concurrent submission to the NeurIPS 2026 main conference is welcome. However, per NeurIPS workshop guidelines, a paper accepted to and presented at the main conference cannot also be presented at a workshop  - please notify us promptly so we can withdraw it from the program.

• Accepted papers will be presented as posters; a subset will be selected for spotlight talks.

• Questions about the submission process: shify.treger@weizmann.ac.il

Reviewer Registration

Interested in reviewing for DevAI? We welcome reviewers with relevant expertise across AI, cognitive science, neuroscience, and developmental psychology.

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