About The Workshop
Information retrieval (IR) is becoming a core capability of modern AI systems, extending beyond document ranking to support complex instructions, reasoning, and action. The second FrontierIR workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from IR, natural language processing, multimodal learning, software engineering, robotics, and agentic AI. Building on the first edition at AAAI 2026, we aim to advance retrieval methods for emerging information needs, connect communities facing shared challenges, and establish priorities for reliable evaluation. We place particular emphasis on retrieving memories, tools, skills, code, and environmental context for agents and embodied systems.
This one-day, in-person workshop will feature four invited talks with Q&A, two contributed-talk sessions, two interactive poster sessions, and a 70-minute moderated panel that synthesizes the day's discussion and identifies shared priorities. A best paper award will be presented at the closing session. All AAAI-27 attendees interested in information retrieval are welcome; no invitation is required.
Schedule
The workshop takes place on February 22 or 23, 2027 (exact day TBA) as part of the AAAI-27 workshop program in Montréal, Canada. The detailed schedule with times will be announced closer to the workshop. The tentative format is:
| Session | Details |
|---|---|
| Opening | Welcome and introduction |
| Invited Talks | Four invited talks with Q&A (see Speakers) |
| Contributed Talks | Two sessions of talks on selected accepted papers |
| Poster Sessions | Two interactive poster sessions |
| Panel Discussion | 70-minute moderated panel synthesizing the day's discussion and identifying shared priorities |
| Closing | Best paper award and closing remarks |
Speakers
Confirmed invited speakers (more to be announced)
Topics
The workshop will cover a range of topics, including but not limited to:
Retrieval that supports AI agents in reasoning and planning, including memory retrieval, tool and skill retrieval, query planning, and adaptive search.
Retrieval for embodied agents and world models, including spatial and temporal memory, trajectories, and retrieval-grounded planning.
Retrieval across code repositories, images, tables, and structured documents.
New tasks, benchmarks, models, data, and training methods for reasoning-intensive, instruction-following, personalized, and domain-specific retrieval.
Robustness, privacy, fairness, evidence coverage, citation faithfulness, uncertainty, and efficiency of retrieval and RAG systems.
Accepted Papers
Call For Papers
Key Dates
- Submission Deadline: November 20, 2026 (AoE)
- Notification of Acceptance: December 2, 2026 (AoE)
- AAAI-27 Early Registration Deadline: December 15, 2026 (11:59 PM Eastern Time)
- Workshop Date: February 22 or 23, 2027 (AAAI-27 workshop program, exact day TBA), Montréal, Canada
Submission Format
All papers must be submitted in PDF format, using the AAAI-27 author kit. We welcome research, position, benchmark, resource, and work-in-progress papers of two types:
Full papers: Full-length papers from 4 to 7 pages (excluding references and appendices).
Short papers: Papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices).
Submission Site
As in the first edition, the workshop uses OpenReview for paper submission and review. The submission link is https://openreview.net/group?id=AAAI.org/2027/Workshop/FrontierIR.
Submissions will undergo double-blind review, with at least three reviews per paper. Accepted papers will be presented as talks or posters. The contributions are non-archival and will be hosted on the workshop website. A best paper award will be presented at the closing session.
Organizers
This workshop is organized by
