About the Workshop
If you are interested in personalized agents, user modeling, or human-centered AI, we warmly invite you to submit to PILA ’26 (Personal Intelligence in the Agentic AI Era). As the first dedicated workshop on this theme, PILA ’26 focuses on personal intelligence in the era of agentic AI. It explores how AI systems can move beyond general-purpose models toward systems that explicitly model individual users and adapt through memory, interaction, and continual learning.
Topics include user modeling and personalized alignment, self-evolving memory and continual learning, benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation, real-world applications, and privacy, safety, and trustworthiness for user-adaptive systems. The workshop will be held in person on the morning of Sunday, 9 August 2026, on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, co-located with ACM SIGKDD KDD 2026. With both a vibrant academic setting and a beautiful natural environment, PILA ’26 offers an excellent opportunity for focused discussion and exchange.
Schedule
Tentative. Times are local to Jeju. Details after acceptance.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 09:00–09:05 | Opening remarks |
| 09:05–09:35 | Invited talk I — Q&A |
| 09:35–10:05 | Invited talk II — Q&A |
| 10:05–10:35 | Contributed session I |
| 10:35–11:05 | Coffee break; poster session |
| 11:05–11:35 | Invited talk III |
| 11:35–12:00 | Contributed session II |
| 12:00–12:30 | Panel discussion |
| 12:30–12:40 | Closing remarks |
Invited Speakers
To be announced.
Call for Papers
We invite submissions to PILA ’26 and welcome you to share this call with colleagues working in related areas.
Topics of Interest
We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
Methods for building robust user models in personal AI systems, including preference modeling, profile alignment, behavior understanding, personalization under uncertainty, and long-horizon modeling of evolving user needs and context.
Memory architectures and retrieval strategies for personal intelligence, including episodic and semantic memory, context management, knowledge integration, and retrieval-generation pipelines that support reliable long-term adaptation.
Adaptive planning, tool use, and agent control for personalized systems, including tool routing, multi-agent coordination, self-correction, and decision-making for dynamic real-world tasks centered on individual users.
Evaluation frameworks, alignment objectives, interpretability, controllability, and safety mechanisms for personal intelligence, especially those that reflect meaningful user outcomes beyond standard proxy metrics.
Privacy-preserving personalization, on-device and federated approaches, real-world deployment challenges, interaction design, and lessons from building and evaluating user-adaptive AI systems in practice.
Submission Information
- Abstract submission deadline 19 May 2026 (AOE)
- Paper submission deadline 21 May 2026 (AOE)
- Notification of acceptance 10 June 2026 (AOE)
- Workshop 9 August 2026 (Jeju Time, GMT+9)
Format. Submissions must be written in English and prepared using the ACM two-column conference proceedings format. Authors should use ACM templates (also available on Overleaf). Submissions should be 4–8 pages, excluding references and appendices.
Review process. PILA ’26 follows a double-blind review process. Submitted manuscripts must be anonymized and should omit author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, and other identifying information. Authors may include optional supplementary materials, but the main paper should remain self-contained.
Submission site. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview.
Publication policy. Accepted papers are non-archival. Camera-ready versions will be hosted on the workshop website and will not appear in the ACM KDD 2026 main proceedings. Submission to PILA ’26 does not preclude subsequent submission of the same work to other conferences or journals.
A Best Paper Award will be presented to the most outstanding accepted contribution. We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Jeju.
