Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning for financial data

• Quantum-enhanced financial time-series modeling and forecasting

• Quantum and quantum-inspired reinforcement learning for trading, execution, hedging, and portfolio control

• Quantum kernels, variational quantum circuits, quantum neural networks, and quantum feature maps for financial applications

• Quantum-inspired optimization, sampling, tensor-network methods, and annealing-inspired methods for finance

• Generative models, synthetic financial data, rare-event simulation, and stress scenario generation

• Quantum-enhanced AI agents and sequential decision-making in financial services

• Benchmarks, datasets, evaluation protocols, and reproducibility for quantum-enhanced financial AI

• Classical baselines, ablation studies, noise analysis, and hardware-vs-simulator comparisons

• Explainability, uncertainty quantification, robustness, validation, and calibration of quantum-enhanced financial AI models

• Model risk, governance, responsible AI, and regulatory considerations for emerging AI and quantum-AI systems in finance

Submission Types

• Full workshop papers: up to 8 pages, including references

• Extended abstracts / position papers: up to 4 pages, including references

• Benchmark, reproducibility, and negative-result reports: up to 4 pages, including references

All submissions should use the ACM sigconf format. Reviews will be double-blind. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop in person and present the work. [ACM templates]

Accepted workshop papers are non-archival and will not appear in the ACM ICAIF proceedings. The workshop organizers may list accepted papers on the workshop website.

Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICAIF2026/Track/12/Submission/Create

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2026, 23:59 AoE   October 12, 2026, 23:59 AoE (Final Extension)

Author notification: October 16, 2026

Camera-ready / website version due: October 24, 2026

Workshop date: November 15, 2026.

Conference: ICAIF 2026, Milan, Italy, November 14–17, 2026

Schedule

Session 1 — Quantum Methods and Financial Models (14:00–16:00 CET)

14:00–14:05

Opening Remarks

14:05–14:45

Invited Speaker: Valeria Zaffaroni (Intesa Sanpaolo)

Title: A QUBO-Based Optimization Framework for ATM Cash Replenishment Scheduling

14:45–15:05

#1191 — Orthogonality Where It Matters: A Spectral View of Recurrent Models for Financial Time Series

15:05–15:25

#1164 — Integration Amplitude Loading as a General Primitive for Quantum Monte Carlo Integration in Finance

15:25–15:45

#1329 — Fin-QBM: From Quantum Boltzmann Machines to Financial Decisions with Generative Models

15:45–16:00

Discussion / Buffer

Session 2 — Financial Applications and Evaluation (16:30–18:00 CET)

16:30–16:50

#1324 — Contextual GHZ Strategies for Cross-Venue Liquidity Coordination: Evidence from U.S. Equity Direct Feeds

16:50–17:10

#1165 — Decentralized Quantum Federated Learning: an Application to Private Equity

17:10–17:30

#1145 — When a Quantum-Inspired State Helps: Reproducible Directional Forecasting in Linked Carbon Markets

17:30–17:50

#1317 — Benchmarking Quantum-Inspired Portfolio Optimization Against Classical Solvers

17:50–18:00

Closing Remarks / Discussion