What’s coming up at #IJCAI2025?

The IJCAI-25 logo and theme photo (cropped). Credit: IJCAI.

The 34rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-25) will be held in Montréal, Canada from 16-22 August. The programme will feature keynote talks, tutorials, workshops, competitions, and oral and poster presentations. There will also be four special tracks, focussing on: AI for social good, AI and arts, human-centred AI, and AI enabling critical technologies.

An exciting addition this year is the satellite event, to be held in Guangzhou, China, from 29-31 August. This second venue will host invited talks, workshops, tutorials, technical sessions, posters and competitions.

Invited talks

There are 12 invited talks planned for this year’s conference. Seven of these will be held in Montréal, with the other five being hosted at the Guangzhou venue.

Montréal

• Bernhard Schölkopf – From ML for science to causal digital twins
• Cynthia Rudin – Interpretable machine learning and AI, John McCarthy and I
• Heng Ji – Science-inspired AI
• Luc De Raedt – Neurosymbolic AI: combining data and knowledge
• Aditya Grover – Generative AI for scientific superintelligence: a bittersweet perspective
• Yoshua Bengio – Avoiding catastrophic risks from uncontrolled AI agency
• Rina Dechter – Graphical models meet heuristic search: a personal journey into automated reasoning

Guangzhou

• Toby Walsh – Road blocks towards AGI: computational creativity
• Harry Shum – Exploring the low altitude airspace: from natural resource to economic engine
• Yew Soon Ong – Physically grounded AI for scientific discovery: from prediction to generative design
• Shing-Tung Yau – Advancing artificial intelligence through modern mathematical theories
• Xin Yao – When evolutionary computation meets trustworthy artificial intelligence

Tutorials

There will be tutorials taking place in Montréal on 16-18 August, and in Guangzhou on 29 August.

Montréal

• Scaling LLM Training: Efficient Pre-training & Fine-tuning on AI Accelerators
• Evaluating LLM-based Agents: Foundations, Best Practices and Open Challenges
• Beyond Text: Advanced Retrieval Augmented Generation for Complex and Multimodal Data
• Neuroevolution of Intelligent Agents
• AI Meets Algebra: Foundations and Frontiers
• Principles of Self-supervised Learning in the Foundation Model Era
• Advances in Time-Series Anomaly Detection
• Federated Compositional and Bilevel Optimization
• Deep Learning for Graph Anomaly Detection
• Supervised Algorithmic Fairness in Distribution Shifts
• Fairness in Large Language Models: A Tutorial
• Human-Centric and Multimodal Evaluation for Explainable AI: Moving Beyond Benchmarks
• Computational Pathology Foundation Models: Datasets, Adaptation Strategies, and Evaluations

Guangzhou

• LLM-based Role-Playing from the Perspective of Hallucinations
• Empowering LLMs with Logical Reasoning: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities
• Large Language Models for Recommendation
• Multimodal Large Language Model for Visually Rich Document Understanding
• Gradient-Based Multi-Objective Deep Learning
• GUI Agents with Foundation Models: Data Resource, Framework and Application
• Multi-Modal Generative AI in Dynamic and Open Environment
• A Tutorial on Bandit Learning in Matching Markets
• Towards Low-Distortion Graph Representation Learning
• Beyond Graph Distribution Shifts: LLMs, Adaptation, and Generalization

Workshops

There will be workshops taking place in Montréal on 16-18 August, and in Guangzhou on 29 August.

Montréal

• The First International Workshop on Trends in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  
• 38th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
• The Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization and Interpretability
• The First Workshop on Multimodal Knowledge and Language Modeling
• 8th Workshop on AI for Aging Rehabilitation and Intelligent Assisted Living
• Social Choice and Learning Algorithms
• 4th International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Learning (STRL 2025)
• Third Workshop on Computational Fair Division
• The 6th International Workshop on Democracy and AI
• Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability
• The 2nd Workshop on Agent AI for Scenario Planning (AgentScen)
• AI for Global Security
• International Workshop on Federated Learning with Generative AI
• Trust in the new Agent Societies (TRUST)
• The Ninth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI’25)
• Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
• 2nd Workshop on Composite AI (CompAI)
• User-Aligned Assessment of Adaptive AI Systems
• 4th Workshop on the Interactions between Analogical Reasoning and Machine Learning (IARML@IJCAI2025)
• Artificial Intelligence 4 Knowledge Acquisition & Management
• Generative AI and theory of mind in communicating agents
• The Workshop of Artificial Intelligence for Time Series Analysis (AI4TS): Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
• Advanced Neural Systems for Next-Generation Biomedical Intelligence
• The Second Workshop on Game AI Algorithms and Multi-Agent Learning
• The 9th BioCreative Challenge andWorkshop (BC9): Large Language Models for Clinical and Biomedical NLP
• Causal Learning for Recommendation Systems
• Large Language Models and Generative AI for Health Informatics
• Empowering Women of Colour in AI-Driven Mental Health Research

Guangzhou

• 2nd International Workshop on Large Language Models for Financial Services (FinLLM 2025)
• 3rd International Workshop on Generalizing from Limited Resources in the Open World
• The 2nd International Workshop on Mechanism Design in Social Networks (MNet)
• The 1st Challenge and Workshop for 4D Micro-Expression Recognition for Mind Reading (4DMR)
• The 4th RePSS – Multimodal Fusion Learning for Remote Physiological Signal Sensing
  
• The 3rd Challenge on Human Behavior Analysis for Emotion Understanding (MiGA 2nd)
  
• 4th Workshop on Practical Deep Learning (Practical-DL 2025): Toward Robust Compressed Foundation Models in the Real World
  
• The Workshop on Deepfake Detection, Localization and Interpretability

Useful links

• IJCAI 2025 main website
• Montréal programme at a glance
• Guangzhou programme at a glance
• Doctoral Consortium programme
• Rina Dechter explains the motivation behind her research – Rina is an invited speaker and won the IJCAI-25 Award for Research Excellence
• Cynthia Rudin reflects on her journey into interpretable machine learning – Cynthia is an invited speaker and won the IJCAI-25 John McCarthy Award

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.