Call for Papers

The fifth workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR) will be held at SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne.

Topics of Interest

We welcomes “full” submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to:

ReNeuIR 2026 will host an efficiency oriented shared task, all participants are invited to submit papers describing their approches and evaluating them.
Novel Neural IR (NIR) models that reach competitive quality but are designed to provide fast training or fast inference;
Efficient NIR models for decentralized IR tasks such as conversational search;
Strategies to speed up training or inference of existing NIR models;
Sample-efficient training of NIR models;
Efficiency-driven distillation, pruning, quantization, retraining, and transfer learning;
Empirical investigation of the complexity of existing NIR models through an analysis of quality, interpretability, robustness, and environmental impact; and,
Evaluation protocols for efficiency in NIR.

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

All submissions must be in English (PDF format) and formatted according to the single column CEUR-ART paper style. Unlike the main conference we do NOT require submissions to be anonymous.

We welcome poster proposals of up to 6 pages long, and articles between 10 and 20 pages long, excluding references.

Articles are expected to describe significant work towards efficient neural information access systems as described in the topics of interest. Furthermore, we welcome extensions or revisions of published articles.

Poster proposals are expected to describe work in progress, late-breaking results, new original ideas and research vision, or any work which is better communicated through a visual, interactive format. Please note, however, that we discourage posters which describe work at the proposal stage; we expect at least some experimental analysis.

All submissions will go through a single-blind peer review process by the program committee and judged on the basis of their relevance to the theme of the workshop and the depth of their technical contribution. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (CEUR proceedings).

Submissions should be made electronically via EasyChair.

Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline: TBD

Notification of acceptance: TBD

Shared task deadline: TBD

Workshop (co-located with SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne): July 24

Final Proceedings Deadline: TBD (yes, after the conference)

All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).

Contact

For any questions please do not hesitate to contact us via the forum or via mail at reneuir2026 [at] easychair [dot] org.