GroundLM 2026 · EMNLP 2026

Workshop Overview

Workshop scope, format, and shared-task information.

At a Glance

Why submit?

  • Reach a multidisciplinary audience spanning NLP, ML, and IR communities.
  • Choose between direct submission and an ARR commitment fast track.
  • Publish archival proceedings papers or present non-archival work for community discussion.
  • Showcase new benchmarks, datasets, systems, and lessons learned — including negative results.

Who should submit?

  • Students, researchers, and practitioners in NLP, IR, and ML.
  • Work on retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge grounding, factuality, and hallucination.
  • Efficient training, adaptation, and inference methods for grounded LLMs.
  • Evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for grounding and faithfulness.

Workshop format

  • Full-day workshop with invited keynote talks.
  • Panel discussion on open challenges in grounding.
  • Contributed oral presentations and poster session.
  • Student mentoring and networking session.

Shared Tasks

GroundLM 2026 hosts two shared tasks for evaluating faithful grounding across visual scenes and scientific literature. Public development sets, input-only test sets, and the online evaluator are available now. Participants should register their team on the evaluator Space, submit held-out predictions there, and report official results in the system paper with the same OpenReview teamname.

Shared Task 1

GoldenViewVQA

Multi-view visual question answering with evidence-source identification in driving scenes.

Shared Task 2

LitTraceQA

Literature-grounded question answering with paper retrieval, evidence grounding, and answer generation.