The CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI) is organized by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). The CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CICAI 2026) will be held at Haining International Campus of Zhejiang University, Haining City, Zhejiang Province, China on October 17th-18th. The aim of CICAI is to promote advanced research in AI, and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers in AI and its affiliated disciplines.High-quality original submissions are welcome from research results and applications of all areas of AI including but not limited to the following areas:

• Brain Inspired AI

• Optimization

• Machine Learning

• Multi-agent Systems

• Computer Vision

• Humans and AI

• Natural Language Processing

• AI Ethics, Privacy, Fairness and Security

• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

• Explainability, Understandability, and Verifiability of AI

• Data Mining

• Multidisciplinary Research with AI

• Robotics

• Applications of Artificial Intelligence

• AI Ethics, Privacy, Fairness and Security

• Other AI related topics

Paper submission must be in English. All papers will be double-blind reviewed by the Program Committee based on technical quality, relevance, originality, significance, and clarity. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Papers that do not comply with the submission policy will be rejected without review.

Each submitted paper should be standard Springer 1-column paper template (10-page of technical content + 2-page references). All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system of Openreview in PDF format only. If required supplementary material may be submitted as a separate PDF file, but reviewers are not obligated to consider this, and your manuscript should, therefore, stand on its own merits without any supplementary material. Supplementary material will not be published in the proceedings.

The submitted papers must not be previously published anywhere and must not be under consideration by any other conference or journal during the CICAI review process. Submitting a paper to the conference means that if the paper was accepted, at least one author will complete the regular registration.

Outstanding accepted papers will be invited to be extended and published in the special issues of “CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research”, “Science China Information Sciences”, “Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology)”, etc. The conference will confer several awards, including Best Paper Award, Best Student Paper Award from the submissions.

Paper Submission

Paper submission will be handled via the Openreview system. Please submit your paper at https://openreview.net/group?id=CAAI.cn/CICAI/2026/Conferences#tab-your-consoles

Templates

CICAI 2026 uses double-blind review for regular papers. Manuscripts should be original, written in English, and in accordance with the standard Springer 1-column paper template (10-page technical content + 2-page references for regular papers); see the CICAI2026 AuthorKit.zip for details. Papers must be in trouble-free, high-resolution PDF format, formatted for US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts. For regular papers, CICAI 2026 submissions are anonymous for double-blind review. The authors must manually remove all author and affiliation information from their submission for review, and may replace it with other information, such as paper number and keywords. Submissions may an ethics statement if applicable; acknowledgements should be omitted from papers submitted for review, but may be included in these two additional pages for accepted papers.

Only PDF files are required at the time of submission for review; you will additionally need to submit paper source files if your paper is accepted for publication.