[CFP] Workshop on Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence for LLMs and Autonomous Agents at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Bremen

[Daniele Meli]

Call for Papers
Workshop on Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence for LLMs and Autonomous Agents
at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, Bremen

We are pleased to invite submissions to the Workshop on Neuro-Symbolic Intelligence for LLMs and Autonomous Agents, to be held at IJCAI-ECAI 2026 in Bremen, Germany.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry working at the intersection of neuro-symbolic AI, large language models (LLMs), and autonomous agent systems. It will serve as a forum to discuss new methods that integrate learning and reasoning, with the goal of building more robust, interpretable, and capable AI systems.

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Topics of Interest (including but not limited to):

• Neuro-symbolic approaches for autonomous and multi-agent systems
• Integration of LLMs with symbolic reasoning and planning
• World models and symbolic action representations
• Learning symbolic abstractions from sub-symbolic data
• Explainability and interpretability in agentic systems
• Hybrid architectures for perception, reasoning, and action
• Verification and guarantees for learning-based agents
• Human knowledge integration and feedback
• Benchmarks, evaluation, and real-world applications

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Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: May 9, 2026
• Notification of acceptance: June 6, 2026
• Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2026

We welcome original research papers, position papers, and work-in-progress contributions. Submissions will be peer-reviewed based on relevance, originality, technical quality, and clarity.

Note: The workshop is non-archival, allowing authors to submit work that is under review or will be submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a journal special issue associated with the workshop (e.g., on the Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence Journal or ACM Letters).

Submission details and updates are available at:
https://sites.google.com/view/nila-workshop-ijcai-2026/home

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Organizers:

• Celeste Veronese — University of Verona
• Daniele Meli — University of Verona
• Abulhair Saparov — Purdue University
• Djallel Bouneffouf — IBM Research
• Pranava Madhyastha — City St George's, University of London
• Alessandra Russo — Imperial College London

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For inquiries, please contact: celeste.veronese@univr.it and daniele.me...@univr.it