The 2nd ICLR Workshop
on Advances in Financial AI:
Towards Agentic and Responsible Systems

🗓️ April 2026

📍 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

News

[Jan 10] Submission Policy Updated: We have added a note that submissions are non-archival. Plus, We welcome submissions representing preliminary or ongoing work, unpublished research, work under review, or novel research.
[Jan 2] Open Review Link Released: Submission portal will open on January 5.
[Dec 15] Call for Papers Released: We are inviting submissions for original research. Deadline: 30 Jan, 2026.
[Dec 15] Website Launched: Welcome to the official website of FINAI@ICLR2026.

About

This workshop aims to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration at the intersection of AI and finance, a high-stakes domain where the integration of domain expertise is essential for the safe and effective deployment of machine learning technologies.

Building on last year’s successful "Advances in Financial AI: Opportunities, Innovations, and Responsible AI"workshop at ICLR 2025, this second edition will specifically focus on the emergence of agentic systems in finance. This includes autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, decision-making systems, and multi-agent interactions, and the imperative of responsibility (ethics, fairness, accountability, transparency, robustness, and regulation).

The workshop will highlight theoretical advances, practical implementations, new opportunities, and open challenges that arise when adapting agentic AI to financial systems under unique constraints, such as data sparsity, regulatory requirements, and highly non-stationary and adversarial environments.

By bringing together the computer science community, financial researchers, industry practitioners, and regulators, we aim to catalyze interdisciplinary dialogue and accelerate the responsible development of agentic AI tailored to the needs of finance and risk management.

Call for Papers

Important Dates 📅

Paper Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2026 (23:59 GMT)
Notification to Authors: February 28th, 2026
Camera-ready Version: March 10th, 2026
Workshop Date: April, 2026 (exact date to be confirmed)

Topics of Interest (but not limited to) 💡

The workshop invites submissions broadly across the entire field of Financial AI, spanning research, practice, and policy.

Within this broad scope, this year’s edition places a particular focus on the design, deployment, and governance of Agentic AI systems, with an emphasis on responsibility, safety, and trust.

We invite contributions on — but not limited to — the following themes:

Agentic & Multi-Agent Systems: Autonomous agents (trading bots, robo-advisors), coordination, competition, and implications for market dynamics and systemic stability.
Responsible & Trustworthy Agents: Safe, fair, and transparent AI for credit, lending, and compliance; oversight mechanisms and enhanced interpretability.
Robustness & Reliability: Methods for ensuring stability under shocks, distributional shifts, or adversarial conditions; adversarial defense and privacy preservation.
Modeling & Forecasting: Advances in time-series modeling, market prediction, and risk assessment; adapting architectures for financial domain constraints.
Human-AI Collaboration: Frameworks combining machine intelligence with human judgment in advisory, investment, and operational workflows.

Ethics, Policy, & Regulation: Governance frameworks for responsible AI adoption, accountability, regulatory compliance, and broader economic implications.
Foundation Models & Decision-Making: Large-scale models governed by market constraints; uncertainty quantification; and integrated decision-making (e.g., hedging, portfolio construction).
Methodology & Frameworks: Methodological work related to Agentic AI in finance, even without direct financial application.

Submission Instruction 📝

Submission Tracks

This year, we invite submissions across two tracks:

Long Paper Track: Up to 8 pages (excluding references).
Short/Tiny Paper Track: Up to 4 pages (excluding references).

Formatting & Policy

Portal: Submissions must be made via OpenReview [Link].
Style: Submissions must follow the official ICLR 2026 conference proceedings format.
Anonymity: The review process is double-blind. Authors must fully anonymize their manuscripts.
Content: We welcome submissions representing preliminary or ongoing work, unpublished research, work under review, or novel research.
Non-Archival Status: Submissions are non-archival.
LLM Policy: We follow ICLR 2026’s policies on LLM usage. AI assistance may be used for editing, coding, or related tasks, but AI systems cannot serve as primary authors of submissions. All reviewing will be performed by human committee members, with any AI assistance clearly disclosed and subject to human oversight.

Review Process & Publication

Submissions and reviews will remain confidential during the review period. Only accepted papers will be made public via the OpenReview portal.

Presentation

All accepted papers will be presented during the workshop poster session. Additionally, high-impact papers will be selected for oral spotlight presentations.
For accepted papers, the authors must attend the workshop and present their work via a poster or oral presentation in person.

Important Information about Short/Tiny Paper Track

Since 2025, ICLR has discontinued the separate “Tiny Papers” track, and is instead requiring each workshop to accept short (3–5 pages in ICLR format, exact page length to be determined by each workshop) paper submissions, with an eye towards inclusion; see https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForTinyPapers for a history of the ICLR tiny papers initiative. Authors of these papers will be earmarked for potential funding from ICLR, but need to submit a separate application for Financial Assistance that evaluates their eligibility. This application for Financial Assistance to attend ICLR 2026 will become available on https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2026/ at the beginning of February and close early March.