AI agents as first-class retrieval targets. AgentSearch Workshop @SIGIR2026.
Melbourne, Australia
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New survey on Agent and Tool Search—an excellent foundation for our community.
Our SIGIR 2026 Workshop on Agent Search has finished, while the Agent Search Challenge is ongoing.
🌐 Workshop: agent-search.github.io/agent…
🏆 Challenge: agent-search.github.io/agent…
#AgentSearch #SIGIR2026
🚀 Our survey, “Agent and Tool Search: Foundations, Techniques, and Open Challenges,” is out!
📄 Paper: openreview.net/pdf?id=lk32qf…
💻 Literature collection: github.com/Bingo-W/Awesome-A…
How can we choose suitable agents and tools as agent ecosystems grow? 🧵
Excited to see momentum in agent search research 🚀
Interested in this area? Submit to AgentSearch @ SIGIR 2026
📅 Deadline: May 8 (AoE)
agent-search.github.io/agent…
🚀 New paper: AgentSearchBench — a benchmark for AI agent search in the wild.
As agent ecosystems grow, a fundamental question emerges: how do we find the right agent for a task?
We build a benchmark with ~10k real-world agents and show:
• Semantic similarity ≠ agent performance
• Description-based ranking often underestimates capable agents
• Execution-aware probing improves ranking
📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.22436
Joint work with Arastun Mammadli @arastunmammadli (co-first author) and Xiaoyu Zhang, Emine Yilmaz @emine_yilm at the UCL AI Center @ai_ucl and UCL Computer Science @uclcs
#AI #Agents #LLM #InformationRetrieval
📢 Deadline extended!
AgentSearch Workshop @ SIGIR 2026
📅 New deadline: 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗔𝗼𝗘)
Focus: retrieving & ranking AI agents/tools
🔗 agent-search.github.io/agent…
Topics include (but are not limited to)
- Representation and discovery of agents/tools
- Retrieval, ranking, and recommendation of agents/tools
- Evaluation and benchmarking for agent/tool search
- Responsible and human-centered agent/tool search
📢 CFP: AgentSearch@SIGIR 2026
Submit your work on indexing, retrieval, and ranking of AI agents & tools.
📄 Extended abstracts (2p) & papers (4–9p)
📅 Deadline: Apr 15, 2026 (AoE)
🔗 agent-search.github.io/agent…
#SIGIR #InformationRetrieval #AIagents
Many thanks to the whole organization team: Bin Wu @binwu_cs, To Eun Kim @TEKnologyy, Yue Feng @YueFeng__, Fernando Diaz @841io, Zhaochun Ren @zhaochun_ren, Emine Yilmaz @emine_yilm
We invite submissions on topics including:
• Agent/tool discovery
• Retrieval & ranking of agents
• Evaluation & benchmarking
• Responsible & human-centered agent search
Submissions: extended abstracts (2p) or research/perspective/demo papers (4–9p).
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🚀 AgentSearch Workshop @ ACM SIGIR ’26
We’re excited to announce AgentSearch: The First Workshop on Indexing, Retrieval, and Ranking of AI Agents, co-located with ACM SIGIR 2026 (Melbourne | Naarm, Australia).
As AI agents rapidly proliferate, how can users, developers, and multi-agent systems reliably identify and select the "right" agents or tools for a given task?
🌐 agent-search.github.io/agent…
🐦 @AgentSearchIR
🦋 bsky.app/profile/agentsearch…
Organizers:
Bin Wu @binwu_cs (University College London),
To Eun Kim @TEKnologyy (Carnegie Mellon University),
Yue Feng @YueFeng__ (University of Birmingham),
Fernando Diaz @841io (Carnegie Mellon University),
Zhaochun Ren @zhaochun_ren (Leiden University),
Emine Yilmaz @emine_yilm (University College London & Amazon)
#SIGIR #SIGIR2026 #InformationRetrieval #AIAgents #MultiAgents #AgentSearch