The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
February 25 – March 4, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Main Conference Timetable for Authors
Note: all deadlines are “anywhere on earth” (UTC-12)
July 8, 2024
AAAI-25 web site open for paper submission
August 7, 2024
Abstracts due at 11:59 PM UTC-12
August 15, 2024
Full papers due at 11:59 PM UTC-12
August 19, 2024
Supplementary material and code due by 11:59 PM UTC-12
October 14, 2024
Notification of Phase 1 rejections
November 4-8, 2024
Author feedback window
December 9, 2024
Notification of final acceptance or rejection (Main Technical Track)
December 19, 2024
Submission of camera-ready files (Main Technical Track)
February 27 – March 4, 2025
AAAI-25 Conference
Note: Deadlines are track-specific and may differ from those listed above. Track-specific deadlines are listed on their respective CFP.
Main Technical Track: Call for Papers
Plagiarism & Use of ChatGPT or similar LLMs Policy
Plagiarism and the Use of ChatGPT or similar LLMs Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT are prohibited unless the produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. Note that this policy does not prohibit authors from using LLMs for editing or polishing author-written text.
AAAI’2025 furthermore follows AAAI policy that any AI system, including Generative Models such as Chat-GPT, BARD, or DALL-E, do not satisfy the criteria for authorship of papers published by AAAI and, as such, also cannot be used as a citable source in papers published by AAAI. Authors assume full responsibility for content, including checking for plagiarism and veracity of all text.
Any allegation of plagiarism, whether the result of the use of an LLM or otherwise, which comes to AAAI’s attention will be thoroughly investigated. If substantiated, the matter will be dealt with very seriously. Possible sanctions include rejection/retraction of the work, notification to all the authors’ institutions or employers and any other relevant bodies, and denial of service for and access to all AAAI-sponsored meetings.
Summary
- Three technical tracks (Main Track; AI for Social Impact; AI Alignment)
- Two-phase reviewing: two reviews in Phase 1, additional reviews in Phase 2 for papers not rejected in Phase 1. Author response after Phase 2, only for papers not rejected in Phase 1.
- Three kinds of supplementary material may be submitted alongside all papers: (1) technical appendix; (2) multimedia; (3) code and data. Supplementary material deadline is 3 days after the paper submission deadline.
- Additional pages for references only.
- All authors must complete a reproducibility checklist, which facilitates replication of the reported research.
- All authors are expected to be available to review (light load), unless extenuating circumstances apply.
- Note that the NeurIPS fast track from previous years will not be included this year. The submission deadline is after NeurIPS initial reviews are released, and authors must withdraw the paper from consideration at NeurIPS if they wish to submit to AAAI.
The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-25 is the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. As with AAAI-24, the theme of this conference is to create collaborative bridges within and beyond AI. In addition to the bridge theme, we emphasize the importance of AI for social impact and responsible AI. Like AAAI 2024 conference, AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibition programs, and two other activities: a Bridge Program and a Lab Program. Many of these activities are tailored to the theme of bridges and are selected according to the highest standards, with additional programs for students and young researchers.
AAAI-25 is an in-person conference.
Timetable for Authors
Please see the timetable in the sidebar.
Collaborative Bridge Theme
Driven by its disciplinary diversity, AAAI has incubated numerous AI sub-disciplines and conferences and has nurtured for decades the cohesion of AI. New communities often emerge when two or more disciplines come together in order to explore new opportunities and perspectives; today, both are plentiful. The purpose of this year’s Bridge Program is to tap into new sources of innovation by cultivating collaboration between two or more communities directed towards a common goal. Our interpretation of bridges is broad and encompasses disciplines within and outside of AI. Hence, the communities that our Bridge Program is intended to bring together could be distinct subfields of AI, such as planning and learning, or different disciplines that contribute to and benefit from AI, such as AI and the humanities.
Topics
AAAI-25 welcomes submissions reporting research that advances artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. The conference scope includes machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data mining, multiagent systems, knowledge representation, human-in-the-loop AI, search, planning, reasoning, robotics and perception, and ethics. In addition to fundamental work focused on any one of these areas, we expressly encourage work that cuts across technical areas of AI (e.g., machine learning and computer vision; computer vision and natural language processing; or machine learning and planning), bridges between AI and a related research area (e.g., neuroscience; cognitive science), or develops AI techniques in the context of important application domains, such as healthcare, sustainability, transportation, and commerce.
The set of AAAI-25 keywords is available on the AAAI-25 keywords page. The author’s guide for choosing the best keywords describes important considerations in selecting keywords for a paper.
Most papers in AAAI-25 will be part of the main track. All main track papers will be reviewed according to the same criteria and via the same process. This conference has two special tracks, which focus on AI for Social Impact, and AI Alignment. Papers in the special tracks will be reviewed according to a different evaluation rubric than papers in the main track. The same reviewing schedule will be followed for all papers.
Special Track on AI for Social Impact
As in past years, AAAI-25 will include a special track on AI for Social Impact (AISI). Submissions to this track will be reviewed according to a rubric that emphasizes the fit between the techniques used and a problem of social importance, rather than simply rewarding technical novelty. In particular, reviewers will assess the significance of the addressed problem; the paper’s engagement with previous literature on the application problem (whether in the AI literature or elsewhere); both novelty of and justification for the proposed AI-based approach; quality of evaluation; facilitation of follow-up work; and overall scope and promise for social impact. Further details are available at the AISI page.
Special Track on AI Alignment
This year we are introducing a special track on AI alignment. This track is motivated by the fact that as we begin to build more and more capable AI systems, it becomes crucial to ensure that the goals and actions of such systems are aligned with human values. To accomplish this, we need to understand the risks of these systems and research methods to mitigate these risks. Further details are available on the AIA page, including review criteria specific to this track.
Review Criteria
AAAI is a highly selective conference. Prospective authors are therefore strongly encouraged to submit only their very best work to AAAI.
All submissions will be rigorously evaluated by expert reviewers to assess whether the contributions of the paper are substantive enough to warrant publication in AAAI.
The contributions may be theoretical, methodological, algorithmic, empirical, integrative (connecting ideas and methods across disparate subfields of AI), or critical (e.g., principled analyses and arguments that draw attention to fundamentally wrong choice of goals, assumptions, or approaches). Evaluation of submissions to the AI for Social Impact track should emphasize demonstrated or potential impact of the research in addressing pressing societal challenges, e.g., health, food, environment, education, governance, among others. Evaluation of submissions to the AI Alignment track will be evaluated using similar but slightly different from the criteria used for main track submissions. See the AI Alignment track CFP for more details.
All submissions will be evaluated and scored for the significance and novelty of the contributions (research problems or questions addressed, methods, experiments, analyses), theoretical and/or empirical soundness of the claims, their relevance to the AAAI community, and clarity of exposition.
Additional considerations include adherence to responsible research practices (e.g., with respect to human subject studies, use of sensitive data, as well as data and algorithmic bias), and of steps to ensure reproducibility of research results (e.g., by providing detailed proofs, documenting experiments, sharing data, and sharing code).
Solid, technical papers that explore new territory or point out new directions for research, or introduce new problems, address research questions, or introduce methods that are of interest beyond a single sub-area of AI are preferred to papers that advance the state of the art, but only incrementally, or only within a narrow sub-area of AI.
Detailed Instructions
More specific details are on the following pages:
- Submission Instructions
- AAAI-25 Author Kit
- Keywords
- Supplementary material
- Review process
- AI for Social Impact Track
- AI Alignment Track
- Paper Modification Guidelines
- Paper Publication and Conference Attendance
- Affiliated Events
Please send queries about conference registration to aaai25@aaai.org.
Questions and Suggestions
Direct inquiries about the submission process and the technical program to workflowchairs25@aaai.zendesk.com and pcchairs25@aaai.zendesk.com respectively. Other general inquiries to the AAAI-25 General and Program Co-chairs can be directed to aaai25chairs@aaai.org.