Submission Instructions

Submission to the Main Track (Main), the KR Meets Machine Learning and Explanation Track (ML&E), and the KR in The Wild Track (Wild) opens on January 19, 2026. For the Video Track, the Recently Published Research Track, and the Doctoral Consortium, with considerably later deadlines, the opening date of the submission site will be announced later.

Contributions to Main, ML&E, and Wild may be regular papers (up to 9 pages) or short papers (up to 4 pages), including abstract, figures, and appendices (if any) but excluding references and acknowledgements. Submissions should be anonymous and will be subject to double-blind peer review. Papers must be written in English and formatted using the style files provided at https://kr.org/KR2026/files/KR26_authors_kit.zip . Authors may submit a separate PDF or ZIP file with additional information supporting their claims (such as proof details, additional experimental results, further details on experimental design, etc). The ZIP file (size up to 100 MB) may include content such as PDFs, code, or data. Such supplementary material should be submitted via the conference management system. The paper must be self contained, as the supplementary material will not be published. Reviewers will have the option, but not the obligation, to consult the supplementary material.

Generative AI models do not satisfy the criteria for authorship of papers published in KR 2026. If authors use an LLM in any part of the paper-writing process they assume full responsibility for all content, including checking for plagiarism and correctness of the entire submission. Text generated by an LLM as part of the paper’s methodology or experimental analysis is allowed but needs to be properly documented and described in the paper.

Papers and supplementary materials must be submitted in the HotCRP system using the link https://submissions.floc26.org/kr/ according to the deadlines for the respective tracks published at https://kr.org/KR2026/dates.html . At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work for the paper to be included in the proceedings.

On or before the abstract submission deadline, authors must register their paper(s). To register the first paper, authors must create an account by going to the submission site and afterwards log in to the created account. For further papers, they can use the same account.

To submit a paper, first choose the track to which it is to be submitted (a single one). If you cannot find the track, submission for it is not yet open. Then enter title, abstract, list of authors, topics as well as the set of PC members the authors are in conflict with. Once this information is provided, click on “save draft”, to complete the paper registration. A notification in green then says "Registered submission as #submission-ID".

Regarding topics, note that they are from the Main and ML&E tracks. However, authors and PC members can choose among all fitting topics, independently of the track.

On or before the paper submission deadline, authors must submit the PDF file of their paper, and optionally the additional material. Once this is done, check the box "The submission is ready for review" and click "save and submit". A notification in green then says "This submission is ready for review." Note that you can still update the files up to the paper submission deadline.