We invite you to submit papers to the 20th International Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy 2026), which will be held in Lisbon (Portugal) from September 1-4, 2026.

NeSy is the premier annual conference of the research community working on neurosymbolic AI, integrating symbolic and neural approaches to learning, reasoning, and problem-solving in AI. Accepted papers of NeSy 2026 are planned for publication in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR).

This year, there will be two rounds of submissions. From the first round, there will be an option for a “revise and resubmit” decision. For such resubmitted papers, we will attempt to use the same reviewers. In addition to resubmissions, entirely new submissions are possible in the second round.

Please contact organisers@nesyconf.org for any questions about submissions.

Relevant Dates

Main Track - Phase 1

  • Full and short paper abstract deadline: February 24, 2026
  • Full and short paper submission: March 3, 2026
  • Author notification: April 24, 2026
  • Camera-ready: May 24, 2026

Main Track - Phase 2

  • Late full and short paper abstract submission: June 9, 2026
  • Late full and short paper submission: June 16, 2026
  • Author notifications: July 8, 2026
  • Camera-ready: July 20, 2026

Industry

  • Coming up.

PhD Symposium

  • Coming up.

All deadlines are 11:59 PM, AoE.

Subject Areas

The NeSy conference invites theoretical, experimental and applied submissions on the integration of neural networks and symbolic AI. We invite papers on all topics related to Neurosymbolic AI, including but not limited to:

  • Informed or physics-aware Machine Learning;
  • Addressing knowledge representation and reasoning tasks using neural networks;
  • Code generation and knowledge engineering with neural networks, including with LLMs;
  • Studying and improving LLM reasoning with Neurosymbolic methods;
  • Neurosymbolic cognitive modelling;
  • Languages for Neurosymbolic AI;
  • Embedding methods for structured information;
  • Circuits and knowledge compilation for Neurosymbolic AI;
  • Specification and verification of machine/deep learning systems;
  • Neurosymbolic AI frameworks;
  • Neurosymbolic methods for reinforcement, causal, structure, transfer, meta, multitask, continual, or relational - learning, and graph neural networks;
  • Applications of Neurosymbolic AI.

Submission guidelines

  • All submissions should be made before the deadline to OpenReview.
  • Please use the Latex template available through this link.
  • Both full and short paper submissions should be original pieces of work or position papers. They should not have been published elsewhere. We have a strict policy on double submissions.
  • Full and short papers will be in the conference proceedings of NeSy 2026, which we plan to publish with PMLR.
  • Full paper submissions should not exceed 10 pages, excluding references and supplementary materials.
  • Short paper and late short paper submissions should not exceed 5 pages, excluding references and supplementary materials.
  • PhD symposium papers should provide an overview of the PhD research plan in neurosymbolic AI and should not exceed 4 pages.
  • Industry papers should provide an overview of the industrial effort related to neurosymbolic AI and should not exceed 4 pages.
  • First round resubmissions which are invited to resubmit in the late deadline should fill in the text field in the form indicating the changes done from the first round and how they address the reviewers’ comments. These papers will be assigned to the same reviewers as the first round.

The conference will be held in-person. At least one author for each accepted paper is requested to physically attend the conference to present their work.

Review process

  • Reviewing will be double-blind.
  • After notification, reviews of accepted papers will be made available on OpenReview along with the originally submitted version of the paper.
    • Reviewers remain anonymous unless they opt in to them being named.
  • Reviewers will be provided a “Reject and Resubmit” decision (R&R), which takes the place of “weak reject.” At the editorial discretion of the Chairs, such papers with this predominant decision will be invited to submit to the second round (competing with other papers of the second round).
    • Authors will be required to submit a changelog and detailed response (similar to a journal article revision cover letter) as part of their supplemental data.
    • Whenever possible, the same reviewers will be retained for this second round of R&R review.
    • An R&R decision does not guarantee acceptance in the second round.

Accepted paper authors will be invited to submit extended versions of papers to a special issue of the Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence journal.

All questions about submissions should be addressed to organisers@nesyconf.org.