Call for Papers

Accepted papers will be presented in either a poster session or an oral session.

Important Dates

All dates have deadlines 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

• Paper submission deadline: May 27th, 2025
• Notification of acceptance: June 16th, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: TBD

Submission Instructions

Authors are invited to submit a short abstract of their new or recently published work. Submissions must be 8 pages maximum, not including references. Submissions may include unlimited appendices, but these are only read at the reviewer's discretion. Please format your submission according to the ICML style. Submissions are not anonymized and should include author names and affiliations.

Submissions will undergo a lightweight review process and will be judged on originality, relevance, interest, and clarity. This workshop aims to provide a forum for practitioners to discuss topics related to Vector DBs, and we also encourage the submission of technical articles (white papers) on Vector DB systems and ANN libraries.

The workshop will not have formal proceedings and is not intended to preclude later publication at another venue. We encourage in-person attendance at the workshop; however, we will consider appropriate measures for those who cannot attend due to visa issues or other circumstances.

To submit your work, please visit the OpenReview (The link will be announced soon).

Topics

We welcome submissions of papers on all aspects of vector databases, including but not limited to:

• Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Algorithms and data structures for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANN)
• Data management systems for handling vector data
• Query languages
• Embedding models
• Applications of vector databases
• Performance evaluation
• Cross-modal retrieval
• Recommendation
• Privacy, fairness, and security