[Call For Papers] IJCLR2026, paper submission deadline extended
César Ferri
*** apologies for cross-postings ***
6th International Joint Conference on Learning and Reasoning to be held at Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain, 16-18 September 2026
https://ijclr2026.webs.upv.es/
Since 2021, IJCLR has aimed at being the conference bringing
together the international AI community that is interested in the
research of integrating learning and reasoning for addressing many
of the shortcomings of contemporary AI approaches, including the
black-box nature and the brittleness of deep learning, and the
difficulty to adapt knowledge representation models in the light
of new data.
The authors could submit their papers to the "Main Track" or
"Recently Published Papers Track". Selected conference papers from
these two tracks are also invited to submit a significantly
revised and extended version of their paper to a post-conference
special issue of the Machine Learning Journal (please see below).
Submissions are solicited on all aspects of Learning and Reasoning
and topics where machine learning is combined with machine
reasoning or knowledge representation.
Authors are invited to submit novel, high-quality work that has
neither appeared in nor is under consideration for publication by
other journals or conferences (except for the Recently Published
Papers Track).
Topics of interest for the Journal Track include, but are not
limited to:
- Theory & foundations of logical & relational learning.
- Learning in various logical representations and formalisms, such as logic programming & answer set programming, first-order & higher-order logic, description logic & ontologies.
- Inductive methods for program synthesis or example-driven programming.
- Combining logic and functional program induction, meta-interpretative learning & predicate invention.
- Statistical Relational AI, including structure/parameter learning for probabilistic logic languages, relational probabilistic graphical models, kernel-based methods, neural-symbolic learning.
- Systems and techniques that integrate neural, statistical & symbolic learning.
- Systems and techniques addressing aspects of integrating learning, reasoning & optimization.
- Knowledge representation and reasoning in deep neural networks.
- Symbolic knowledge extraction from neural and statistical learning models.
- Neural-symbolic AI.
- Techniques that foster explainability & trustworthiness of AI models, including combinations of machine learning with constraints & satisfiability, explainable AI frameworks and reasoning about the behavior of machine learning models.
- Scaling-up logical & relational learning: parallel & distributed learning techniques, online learning and learning structured representations from data streams.
- Human-Like Computing, including Cognitive and AI aspects of perception, action and learning.
- Machine Teaching, including example-based explanations for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)
Main Track
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Conference papers, describing original work with appropriate experimental evaluation and/or a self-contained theoretical contribution. Submitted conference papers should not have been published, or be under review for a journal, or another conference with published proceedings. Conference papers may be either long papers, of up to 15 pages, including references, or short papers of up to 6-9 pages, including references. Submitted papers should contain a substantial contribution that justifies their length, e.g. proofs of extensive experimental studies. Visit the Important Dates page for the Main Track cut-off dates. Visit the Submission Guidelines page for more information. Papers accepted to the Main Track will be presented at IJCLR.
Keynotes
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Recently Published Papers Track:
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IJCLR invites high-quality papers relevant to the scope of the
conference, which have been recently published, or accepted for
publication, by a first-class conference such as IJCAI, AAAI,
NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, ECML/PKDD, ICDM, etc., or journals such as
AIJ, MLJ, DMKD, JMLR, etc. Visit the Important Dates page for the
Recently Published Papers Track cut-off dates. Visit the
Submission Guidelines page for more information. Papers submitted
to the “Recently Published Papers Track” will be accepted on the
grounds of relevance and quality of the original publication
venue. Accepted papers will be presented at IJCLR.
Late-breaking Papers, Posters and Demo Track:
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IJCLR 2026 invites submissions of late-breaking papers, posters,
and demos that present novel ideas, proposals, or system
demonstrations relevant to the IJCLR conference. These may include
original work in progress without conclusive experimental results,
or other related research not yet ready for formal publication.
This year, we particularly welcome system demo submissions
showcasing innovative applications or tools aligned with IJCLR
themes. Submissions to this track must be between 2 to 4 pages in
length, including references, and will be evaluated based on
relevance to IJCLR. Visit the Submission Guidelines page for more
information. Accepted contributions will be published on the
conference website (optional, and not required if you plan to
pursue publication elsewhere).
Journal Special Issue:
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Please note that submissions to the Journal Special Issue for
IJCLR 2026 are by invitation only and from the papers submitted to
the conference. A post-conference special issue of the Machine
Learning Journal is planned with papers selected by the PC from
the "Main Track" and “Recently Published Papers Track (conference
papers)". The authors of invited papers should submit a
significantly revised and/or extended version of their conference
papers to meet the MLJ criteria, and re-reviewed by the PC. More
information including the deadline and submission instructions
will be sent to the authors of invited papers and will be also
available from the conference website.
Publication:
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Conference papers (either short or long) will be included in the conference proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Series. Late Breaking abstracts will be published on the conference website. A link to recently published papers will be included in the conference website.
Deadlines
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Conference paper submission 15th June
2026
IJCLR 2026 Conference paper notification 20th July 2026
Recently Published Papers TBA
Late-breaking Papers, Posters and Demos TBA