AI Agent for Information Retrieval (Agent4IR)

28 April - 2 May 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. 

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

• ...

Call for Papers

Important Dates (AOE) 

• Workshop paper submission: 18 December, 2024

• Workshop paper notification: 13 January, 2025

• Workshop paper camera-ready: 2 February, 2024

• Workshops: 28 April - 29 April, 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