Workshop scope

EARL 2026 welcomes research on the evaluation and application of large language models within recommender systems. We particularly encourage work connecting recommendation with core CIKM themes such as information retrieval, knowledge representation, knowledge management, user modeling, personalization, and data-driven intelligent systems.

We welcome submissions from academia and industry, including exploratory work that raises important questions about the future of LLM-enhanced recommender systems.

Topics of interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Retrieval-augmented and knowledge-grounded recommendation.
• Conversational, interactive, and agent-based recommendation.
• Multimodal recommendation powered by LLMs.
• Efficient and scalable deployment of LLM-enhanced recommender systems.
• Evaluation, reproducibility, and methodological soundness.
• Real-world applications and deployment experiences.
• Personalization, user modeling, and recommendation across domains.
• Fairness, safety, privacy, transparency, explainability, and responsible AI.

Submission formats

We accept submission formats for both Full Research Papers and Short Research Papers, following the same Call-for-Paper with the CIKM main conference.

Submissions should use the ACM Proceedings template in double-column format. All accepted papers will be non-archival. We particularly welcome contributions from early-career researchers and students.

Review process

Submissions will undergo double-blind peer review and will be evaluated by at least three reviewers based on academic soundness, relevance to the workshop themes, and interest to the CIKM community.

Important dates

Submissions are handled through OpenReview. Remaining dates will be announced soon.

• Paper submission deadline: 25 August 2026, 23:59 AoE
• Author notification: 23 September 2026, 23:59 AoE
• Camera-ready version: 30 September 2026, 23:59 AoE

Host conference

EARL 2026 will be held at the 35th International ACM Conference on Knowledge and Information Management (CIKM 2026), 8 November 2026, in Rome, Italy. See the official CIKM 2026 website for conference-wide information.