2026 International Workshop on Technologies for AI Governance (TAIG 2026)

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions of extended paper abstracts of no more than two pages, in PDF format, based on original research work. Authors of accepted abstracts will be expected to attend the workshop and present their work in person.

Key Dates:

• Extended Abstract submission deadline: 15 September 2026

• Acceptance Notification: 15 October 2026

• Workshop dates: 27-28 November 2026

• Full-length paper submission: 31 December 2026

• Review feedback on full-length papers: 31 January 2027

• Final camera-ready copies of full-length papers: 28 February 2027

List of Topics

Please create an account and fill in the submission form. Extended abstracts on topics related to the following topics are welcome.

• Risks and Governance of Frontier AI

  • AI regulation and compliance

  • Risks and impacts of frontier AI models, AI Agents, and Physical AI

  • Governance philosophies/frameworks/mechanisms/methodologies of frontier AI

• Value Alignment

  • Evaluation of value alignment of large language models, large multimodal models, and AI agents

  • Value alignment techniques for large language models, large multimodal models, and AI agents

• Human Autonomy and Oversight

  • Evaluation and mitigation of threats to human autonomy in human-AI interaction (persuasion, manipulation, etc)

  • Human oversight and control mechanisms/methods/techniques

• Transparency & Interpretability

  • Transparency documentation of data, models, systems, processes, and outcomes

  • Explainability methods: Understanding model decisions (attention visualization, feature attribution)

• Fairness & Bias Mitigation

  • Bias detection and mitigation for training data

  • Bias evaluation and mitigation for model outputs

Committees

Organizing Committee

• Prof. Lei CHEN

  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Chair Professor, Director of HKUST Big Data Institute, Dean, Information Hub, HKUST Guangzhou

• Prof. Randy GOEBEL

  University of Alberta, Professor, Department of Computing Science, Fellow and co-founder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute

• Prof. Lei MA

  University of Tokyo, Associate Professor, Department of Information Science, CIFAR AI Chair and Fellow of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, University of Alberta

• Prof. Xin YAO

  Lingnan University, Vice-President (Research and Innovations), Tong Tin Sun Chair Professor of Machine Learning

Publication

After the workshop, authors will be invited to submit full-length papers to be included in an edited volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All extended abstracts and full-length papers will be peer-reviewed.

Venue and Time

The conference will be held in ......

Time: 27-28 November 2026 (HKT)
Venue: Hong Kong or Online

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Ms. Cat Cheung at catcheung@LN.edu.hk or +852 26168901.