CFP: ICML 2026 Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creativity

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*** Call for Papers and Participation ***

ICML 2026 Workshop on Human-AI Co-Creativity

https://genaicreativity.org/icml2026/

Location: ICML 2026 Workshop, Seoul, South Korea.
Workshop Date: 11 July 2026.
Paper Submission Deadline: 8 May 2026 AOE.
Author Notification: 22 May 2026 AOE.

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*** 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.

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*** Topics of Interest ***

Topics of interest in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following:

* 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.

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*** Paper Submissions and Participation ***

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

Reciprocal reviewing: Given the short reviewing timeline, we will 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.

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*** Organizers ***

* Adish Singla. Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Saarbrucken, Germany).
* Abhilasha Ravichander. Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (Kaiserslautern, Germany).
* Liwei Jiang. University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA).
* Alexander Spangher. Stanford University (Stanford, CA, USA).
* Alice Oh. KAIST (Daejeon, South Korea).

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