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4th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF-23)

The deadlines for submitting papers for ICAIF 2023 have passed. Please see the accepted papers here.

Call for Papers

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF) is a scholarly peer-reviewed conference that aims to bring together researchers from both academia and industry to share challenges, advances, and insights on the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on finance. ICAIF is supported by ACM.  We invite participation from academia, government, regulatory agencies, financial institutions, NGOs, and other stakeholders in the AI and Finance community.  For the latest information, subscribe to the email list.

ICAIF ’23 invites high-quality research paper submissions that connect AI and Finance from both methodological and applicational perspectives. Details on paper submission are outlined below, including important dates, topic areas, submission guidelines (including templates & formatting), paper review, and policies.

Program Chairs

  • Grace Wang (NJIT)
  • Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford)
  • Eren Kurshan (Morgan Stanley)

Important Dates

AOE = Anywhere on Earth

  • Paper submission deadline: July 28, 2023 23:59 AOE (past)
  • Author notification: September 22 September 26, 2023 (past)
  • Workshops: November 27, 2023 (see accepted workshops page for details)
  • Main Conference: November 28-29, 2023

Topic Areas

ICAIF ’23 invites high-quality research paper submissions that connect AI and Finance from both methodological and applicational perspectives.

Methodologies should be relevant to general financial problems that may include but are not limited to:

  • Generative models and data-driven simulation
  • Large Language Models
  • Reinforcement learning and federated learning
  • Meta learning and transfer learning
  • Representation learning, natural language processing, and time series prediction
  • Validation and calibration of financial models
  • Multi-agent systems and game-theoretic analysis of financial markets
  • Explainability, ethics, and fairness of AI & ML systems
  • Security, and privacy of AI & ML systems
  • Computational regulation and compliance in finance
  • Robustness and uncertainty quantification
  • Quantum computing
  • Graph theory and network analysis

Potential applications of interest may include but are not limited to:

  • Fraud detection for credit cards and mortgages
  • Early detection of firm defaults
  • Blockchain and cryptocurrency
  • Risk modeling and risk management
  • Trading (for example,optimal execution, market making, smart order routing and hedging)
  • Asset pricing
  • Robot-advising and investment recommendations
  • Forecasting of financial scenarios
  • Financial time series analysis and factor models

Paper Submission & Templates

The paper submission deadline has been extended — papers must now be submitted no later than Friday, July 28, by 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AOE), and must be submitted via CMT at this link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICAIF2023/Submission/Index

Papers must be formatted according to ACM guidelines (see below) and must be no longer eight (8) pages in total, including all figures and references. Authors are required to submit their electronic papers in PDF format. Over-length papers will be rejected without review. Submissions must be self-contained. ICAIF ’23 will not accept any supplementary materials.

Paper templates are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template 

  • Word Authors should refer to the section “Word Authors.”
  • Latex Authors should refer to the section “LaTex Authors” and use the latex package “LATEX (Version 1.90)” and sigconf templates. Don’t refer to the section for “Overleaf.”

Paper Review

ICAIF ’23 will follow a double-blind review process (authors’ identities will not be known to the reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities will not be known to the authors). Accordingly, submitted papers should not reveal the identity of the authors, either by citation or other obvious mention of previous work. There will be no rebuttal period.

Submission Policies

No extensions will be granted for submission past the deadline of 23:59 PM AOE on July 24, 2023.

Each individual author is limited to no more than twelve (12) submissions to ICAIF. The list of authors provided at submission time is final. Authors may not be added to, or removed from, papers following submission. Authors are also expected to participate as reviewers.

For full paper submissions, ICAIF is a peer-reviewed archival venue. ICAIF will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission is under review for, already published in, or already accepted for publication in, a journal or other archival publication. As a guideline, consider publications with a DOI, ISBN, or ISSN as archival. Questions about submission eligibility should be referred to the program chair in advance of the submission deadline.

Additionally, authors should not submit their papers to other archival venues during the ICAIF review period. Multiple submission is grounds for immediate rejection of the submitted paper and referral for ethical review.

Permissible pre-publication: Submitted papers may have appeared previously as a technical report or in other non-archival venues. Specific examples of permissible venues include ICML workshops, NeurIPS workshops, AAAI workshops, and arXiv. In order to preserve anonymity for review, however, authors must not cite such papers. Questions concerning acceptable pre-publication venues should be directed to the Program Chair.

All submissions will be treated with strict confidentiality until published.

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