Call for Papers
European Conference on Machine Learning and
Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML PKDD
2025, Porto, Portugal, September 15-19, 2025
Conference website:
https://ecmlpkdd.org/2025/Call for Papers - Research Track
The
Research Track solicits high-quality research papers in all fields of
Machine Learning, Knowledge Discovery, and Data Mining. Papers should
demonstrate that they make a substantial contribution to the field
(e.g., improve the state-of-the-art or provide new theoretical insights)
and will be evaluated based on their contribution to the state of the
art, technical excellence, potential impact, and clarity.
Research Track webpage:
https://ecmlpkdd.org/2025/submissions-research-track/Key Dates and Deadlines
CMT Opening: 2025-02-07
Abstract Submission: 2025-03-07
Paper Submission: 2025-03-14
Author Notification: 2025-05-26
CRC Submission: 2025-06-13
Paper Format
Papers
must be written in English and formatted in LaTeX, following the
outline of our author kit. The kit includes a readme document, a LaTeX
file template containing author instructions, and style files. The
maximum length of papers is 16 pages (including references) in this
format. The program chairs reserve the right to reject any over-length
papers without review. Papers that ‘cheat’ the page limit by, including
but not limited to, using smaller than specified margins or font sizes
will also be treated as over-length. Note that, for example, negative
vspaces are also not allowed by the formatting guidelines; further
details can be found in the author kit. Up to 10 MB of additional
materials (e.g., proofs, audio, images, video, data, or source code) can
be uploaded with your submission.If there is an appendix, ensure it is
submitted separately from your paper, which must adhere to the 16-page
limit.The reviewers and the program committee reserve the right to judge
the paper solely on the basis of the 16 pages of the paper; looking at
any additional material is at the discretion of the reviewers and is not
required.
Authorship
The author list as submitted with
the paper is considered final. No changes to this list may be made after
paper submission, either during the review period, or in case of
acceptance, at the final camera-ready stage.
Double-blind Review
Similarly
to previous years, we will apply a double-blind review-process (author
identities are not known by reviewers or area chairs; reviewers do see
each other’s names). All papers need to be ‘best-effort’ anonymized.
Papers must not include identifying information of the authors (names,
affiliations, etc.), self-references, or links (e.g., GitHub, YouTube)
that reveal the authors’ identities (e.g., references to own work should
be given neutrally like other references, not mentioning ‘our previous
work’ or similar). We strongly encourage making code and data available
anonymously (e.g., in an anonymous Github repository, or Dropbox
folder). The authors might have a (non-anonymous) pre-print published
online, but it should not be cited in the submitted paper to preserve
anonymity. Reviewers will be asked not to search for them. We recognize
there are limits to what is feasible with respect to anonymization. For
example, if you use data from your own organization and it is relevant
to the paper to name this organization, you may do so.
Submission Process
Electronic submissions will be handled via CMT available here:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ECMLPKDD2025/Submissions will be evaluated by three reviewers on the basis of novelty, technical quality, potential impact, and clarity.
Conference Attendance
For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the main conference and present the paper in person.
Proceedings
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series (LNCS).
Reproducible Research Papers
Authors
are strongly encouraged to adhere to the best practices of Reproducible
Research, by making available data and software tools that would enable
others to reproduce the results reported in their papers. We advise the
use of standard repository hosting services such as Dataverse,
mldata.org, OpenML, figshare, or Zenodo for data sets, and
mloss.org,
Bitbucket, GitHub, or figshare (where it is possible to assign a DOI)
for source code. If data or code gets updated after the paper is
published, it is important to enable researchers to access the versions
that were used to produce the results reported in the paper. Authors who
do not have a preferred repository are advised to consult Springer
Nature’s list of recommended repositories and research data policy.
Ethics Considerations
Ethics
is one of the most important topics to emerge in Machine Learning,
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. We ask you to think about the
ethical implications of your submission – such as those related to the
collection and processing of personal data or the inference of personal
information, the potential use of your work for policing or the
military. You will be asked in the submission form about the ethical
implications of your work which will be taken into consideration by the
reviewers.
Authors Commit to Reviewing
Authors of
submitted papers agree to provide the email address of at least one
author who holds a PhD to be a potential PC member for ECML PKDD 2025
and may be asked to review papers for the conference if we have many
more submissions than expected. This does not apply to authors who are
(a) already contributing to ECML PKDD (e.g., accepted a PC/AC invite,
are part of the organizing committee) or (b) not qualified to be ECML
PKDD PC members (e.g., limited background in ML or DM).
Dual Submission Policy
Papers
submitted should report original work. Papers that are identical or
substantially similar to papers that have been published or submitted
elsewhere may not be submitted to ECML PKDD, and the organizers will
reject such papers without review. Authors are also NOT allowed to
submit or have submitted their papers elsewhere during the review
period. Submitting unpublished technical reports available online (such
as on arXiv), or papers presented in workshops without formal
proceedings, is allowed, but such reports or presentations should not be
cited to preserve anonymity.
Conflict of Interest
During
the submission process, you must enter the email domains of all
institutions with which you have an institutional conflict of interest.
You have an institutional conflict of interest if you are currently
employed or have been employed by that institution in the past three
years, or you have extensively collaborated with the institution within
the past three years. Authors should also identify other conflicts of
interest, such as co-authorship in the last five years, colleagues in
the same institution within the last three years, and advisor/student
relations (anytime in the past).
Contact
For further information, please contact Mail:
ecml-pkdd-2025-res...@googlegroups.com