Information and Updates

  • Location: ICML 2026 Workshop, Seoul, South Korea.
  • Date: 10 or 11 July 2026.
  • Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2026 AOE.
  • Author notification: 15 May 2026 AOE.
  • Contact: For any questions, please email contact.genaicreativity AT gmail.com
  • Updates:
    • 2026-04-04: Initial website created for the ICML'26 workshop!
    • 2026-04-06: We have added details about the call for papers below!
    • 2026-04-07: OpenReview portal for workshop paper submissions is now accessible!
    • 2026-04-07: Call for papers in plain text format is available here!

Overview

Recent advances in large generative models have turned AI agents into everyday companions. Millions of people now rely on them across domains from design and communication to science and education. These advances offer unprecedented opportunities to support people in open-ended domains by providing a medium for brainstorming ideas, exploring design choices, and thereby improving their creative outcomes. However, existing models and interfaces are primarily designed for automation, and their increasing usage for creative tasks poses new challenges, such as the risk of idea homogeneity and concerns about content copyright. The workshop aims to investigate these opportunities and challenges by focusing the discussions along two thrusts:

  1. Exploring how generative AI provides new opportunities to support people in open-ended creative tasks in domains ranging from design and communication to science and education.
  2. Identifying unique challenges in integrating AI into creative workflows, which could lead to design fixation and idea homogeneity, and raise issues of content copyright and authorship.

For us to fully realize these opportunities and tackle these challenges, it is crucial to build a community comprising researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners that are ``multilingual'' with (a) technical expertise in the cutting-edge advances in generative AI, (b) know-how of designing/deploying generative AI systems for human users, and (c) first-hand experience of working with these systems for creative content creation in everyday work. The goal of this workshop is to foster such a multilingual community. More concretely, the workshop will bring together speakers and participants with diverse backgrounds: (i) researchers in machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, industrial design, social robotics, and human psychology; (ii) industry professionals working on end-user systems such as Midjourney; and (iii) practitioners leveraging generative AI in art and creative industries. Moreover, the workshop program, including talks by diverse speakers and a panel, is designed to break new ground. By fostering collaboration between different communities and stakeholders, we aim to facilitate the development of next-generation technologies that enhance human-AI co-creativity. The workshop will cover several topics of interests, including (but not limited to):

  • Sharing viewpoints, artefacts, or field experiences of using generative AI in creative domains.
  • Exploring the role of creativity and diversity of generative AI models across different domains, including everyday open-ended tasks, art creation, game development, or scientific ideation.
  • Developing novel methods to improve the creativity/diversity of generative models, e.g., fine-tuning using creativity-centric rewards or inference-time persona conditioning.
  • Designing new architectures for creativity-centric models, in particular, that are more suitable for human-AI co-creation, e.g., by leveraging insights from literature on human creativity.
  • Curating benchmarks and shared resources that focus on evaluating the creativity aspects of AI agents, both when acting alone and when co-creating with a human user in the loop.
  • Sharing viewpoints or field experiences about concerns in using generative AI in creative domains, and longer-term consequences of generative AI on the future of creative professions.
  • Exploring novel interfaces and interaction paradigms that tackle the challenge of design fixation or idea homogeneity, and boost creativity in human-AI co-creation.
  • Developing novel safeguarding methods to validate the authenticity of content, e.g., to determine whether a news story was written by a human or generated by a model.
  • Investigating how to attribute/reward human creativity when co-creating with generative AI.

Call for Papers

Details about paper submissions are provided below:

  • We invite paper submissions of various types, including research papers reporting new results, position papers presenting novel viewpoints or field experiences, papers focusing on artefacts or benchmarks, and shorter work-in-progress papers.
  • All submissions must be in PDF format based on the ICML 2026 LaTeX style file.
  • Papers can have 4-8 pages of main content, including key figures or tables. Additional pages containing references and appendices are allowed. If authors wish to provide supplemental information (e.g., implementation details, proofs, additional results), they can use pages after the references to add appendices. Note that appendices will not be used during the reviewing process, and reviewers should be able to judge your work based on the main content.
  • The reviewing process is double-blind. All submissions should be anonymous. Accepted papers will be made available on the workshop website as non-archival reports.
  • We are using OpenReview to manage workshop submissions. All authors must have an OpenReview profile when submitting. The author list cannot be changed after the deadline. If co-authors don't have an OpenReview profile, they must create one before paper submission. Please be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles: (a) new profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically; (b) new profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
  • Submission portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=ICML.cc/2026/Workshop/GenAICreativity.
  • Paper submission deadline: 1 May 2026 AOE.
  • Author notification: 15 May 2026 AOE.
  • Reciprocal reviewing: Given the short reviewing timeline, we may adopt a reciprocal reviewing approach. For each submission, one of the authors should be willing to serve as a reviewer if need be. Authors can decide whom to nominate as a reciprocal reviewer when requested.

The workshop welcomes participation from individuals who do not have something they'd like to submit but are interested in the workshop topics. The workshop aims to facilitate new connections, inspire novel ideas, and create fruitful partnerships.

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