[CFP][Workshop] GRAIL 2026 @ CIKM 2026 — Generative, Retrieval-augmented & Agentic Intelligence for Personalization (Rome, Nov 8)
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Shubham Chatterjee
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CALL FOR PAPERS — GRAIL 2026
Generative, Retrieval-augmented, and Agentic
Intelligence for Personalization
A half-day workshop co-located with CIKM 2026
Rome, Italy · November 8, 2026
https://grail2026.github.io/
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Paper submission deadline: August 24, 2026 (AoE)
--- OVERVIEW ---
Personalization is being rebuilt around generative models. Large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic systems are transforming how recommender systems retrieve, rank, explain, converse with, and even simulate users — while surfacing hard new challenges around hallucination, controllability, evaluation, privacy, fairness, and long-term user impact.
GRAIL 2026 is dedicated to generative recommender systems: methods that use generative models for retrieval, ranking, planning, and explanation, as well as for conversational agents, user simulation, and evaluation. It brings academic researchers and industry practitioners together to push these approaches forward while giving equal attention to their reliability, safety, and responsible deployment.
Whether you build, study, or deploy recommender systems, we invite you to take part and join us in Rome.
--- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---
We welcome original research, position pieces, and practical
contributions at the intersection of generative AI and
personalization. Topics include, but are not limited to:
* LLM-based recommendation
* Retrieval-augmented personalization
* Generative sequential & session-based recommendation
* Multimodal & content-generating recommenders
* Conversational & agentic recommendation
* Knowledge-grounded recommendation
* Synthetic interaction data
* User modeling with GenAI
* Evaluation of generated recommendations
* Fairness, privacy & safety
* Controllability & user feedback
* Scalable production architectures
--- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---
Full papers (max 8 pages)
Mature research results. Up to 8 pages, plus unlimited pages for references, appendix, and GenAI-usage disclosure.
Short papers (max 4 pages)
Ongoing work, demos, position, or opinion papers. Up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references, appendix, and GenAI-usage disclosure.
All submissions must follow the standard ACM double-column template (sigconf). Each paper receives at least three reviews.
===============================================================
CALL FOR PAPERS — GRAIL 2026
Generative, Retrieval-augmented, and Agentic
Intelligence for Personalization
A half-day workshop co-located with CIKM 2026
Rome, Italy · November 8, 2026
https://grail2026.github.io/
===============================================================
Paper submission deadline: August 24, 2026 (AoE)
--- OVERVIEW ---
Personalization is being rebuilt around generative models. Large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic systems are transforming how recommender systems retrieve, rank, explain, converse with, and even simulate users — while surfacing hard new challenges around hallucination, controllability, evaluation, privacy, fairness, and long-term user impact.
GRAIL 2026 is dedicated to generative recommender systems: methods that use generative models for retrieval, ranking, planning, and explanation, as well as for conversational agents, user simulation, and evaluation. It brings academic researchers and industry practitioners together to push these approaches forward while giving equal attention to their reliability, safety, and responsible deployment.
Whether you build, study, or deploy recommender systems, we invite you to take part and join us in Rome.
--- TOPICS OF INTEREST ---
We welcome original research, position pieces, and practical
contributions at the intersection of generative AI and
personalization. Topics include, but are not limited to:
* LLM-based recommendation
* Retrieval-augmented personalization
* Generative sequential & session-based recommendation
* Multimodal & content-generating recommenders
* Conversational & agentic recommendation
* Knowledge-grounded recommendation
* Synthetic interaction data
* User modeling with GenAI
* Evaluation of generated recommendations
* Fairness, privacy & safety
* Controllability & user feedback
* Scalable production architectures
--- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---
Full papers (max 8 pages)
Mature research results. Up to 8 pages, plus unlimited pages for references, appendix, and GenAI-usage disclosure.
Short papers (max 4 pages)
Ongoing work, demos, position, or opinion papers. Up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references, appendix, and GenAI-usage disclosure.
All submissions must follow the standard ACM double-column template (sigconf). Each paper receives at least three reviews.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register
and present in person in Rome.
Submission site (EasyChair): coming soon — please watch
https://grail2026.github.io/ for the link.
--- IMPORTANT DATES ---
Paper submission deadline .... August 24, 2026
Acceptance notification ...... September 23, 2026
Workshop day (Rome) .......... November 8, 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
--- PROGRAM ---
GRAIL 2026 is a half-day, in-person workshop featuring an invited keynote, peer-reviewed paper presentations, a poster/demo session, and a moderated panel. The detailed schedule will be posted after acceptance notifications.
--- ORGANIZERS ---
Ashish Jain (Workshop Chair) ........ Airbnb
Shubham Chatterjee .................. Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology
Amit Goyal .......................... Amazon
Xi Wang ............................. University of Sheffield
Marios Kokkodis ..................... Airbnb
Panos Adamopoulos ................... Emory University
Selen Uguroglu ...................... Airbnb
Katerina Iliakopoulou-Zanos ......... The Walt Disney Company
Duong Tran .......................... Thumbtack
Minmin Chen ......................... Google DeepMind
--- CONTACT ---
For questions about the workshop, please contact:
Ashish Jain — ashis...@airbnb.com
Website: https://grail2026.github.io/
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Rome!
The GRAIL 2026 Organizing Committee
and present in person in Rome.
Submission site (EasyChair): coming soon — please watch
https://grail2026.github.io/ for the link.
--- IMPORTANT DATES ---
Paper submission deadline .... August 24, 2026
Acceptance notification ...... September 23, 2026
Workshop day (Rome) .......... November 8, 2026
All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
--- PROGRAM ---
GRAIL 2026 is a half-day, in-person workshop featuring an invited keynote, peer-reviewed paper presentations, a poster/demo session, and a moderated panel. The detailed schedule will be posted after acceptance notifications.
--- ORGANIZERS ---
Ashish Jain (Workshop Chair) ........ Airbnb
Shubham Chatterjee .................. Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology
Amit Goyal .......................... Amazon
Xi Wang ............................. University of Sheffield
Marios Kokkodis ..................... Airbnb
Panos Adamopoulos ................... Emory University
Selen Uguroglu ...................... Airbnb
Katerina Iliakopoulou-Zanos ......... The Walt Disney Company
Duong Tran .......................... Thumbtack
Minmin Chen ......................... Google DeepMind
--- CONTACT ---
For questions about the workshop, please contact:
Ashish Jain — ashis...@airbnb.com
Website: https://grail2026.github.io/
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Rome!
The GRAIL 2026 Organizing Committee
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