Important Dates
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”).
- June 26, 2025: Submission deadline
- July 18, 2025: Submission deadline for papers with ARR reviews
- July 24, 2025: Notification of acceptance
- October 10, 2025: Workshop day
Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=colmweb.org/COLM/2025/Workshop/XTempLLMs
Paper template:
Paper submissions must use the official COLM LaTeX style template at https://github.com/COLM-org/Template/archive/refs/tags/2025.zip
Topics
- Cross-temporal work in the NLP community
- Novel benchmarks for evaluating the temporal abilities of LLMs across diverse date and time formats, culturally grounded time systems, and generalization to future contexts;
- Novel methods (e.g., neuro-symbolic approaches) for developing temporally robust, unbiased, and reliable LLMs;
- Data analysis such as the distribution of pretraining data over time and conflicting knowledge in pretraining and RAG data;
- Interpretability regarding how temporal information is processed from tokenization to embedding across different layers, and finally to model output;
- Temporal applications such as reasoning, forecasting and planning;
- Consideration of cross-lingual and cross-cultural perspectives for linguistic and cultural inclusion over time.
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Interdisciplinary work that relies on LLMs for cross-temporal studies
- Time-sensitive discoveries, such as social biases over time (Madhusudan et al., 2025) and personality testing over time (Bodroža et al., 2023);
- Assessment of time-sensitive discoveries to identify misleading findings if any;
- Interdisciplinary evaluation benchmarks for LLMs’ temporal abilities, e.g., psychological time perception (Chen et al., 2025) and episodic memory evaluation (Huet et al., 2025).
Submission Guidelines
The workshop welcomes two types of submission -- long and short papers. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Please follow the ACL ARR formatting requirements, using the official templates. Given the COLM requirement of workshop papers, accepted papers are considered non-archival and will not be included in workshop proceedings.
Submission Modes
- Standard submissions: We invite the submission of papers that will receive up to three double-blind reviews from the XTempLLMs committee, and a final decision of acceptance from the workshop chairs.
- Pre-reviewed submissions: We invite unpublished papers that have already been reviewed either through ACL ARR, or recent AACL/EACL/ACL/EMNLP/COLING venues. These papers will not receive new reviews but will be judged together with their reviews via a meta-review from the workshop chairs.
- Published papers: We invite papers that have been published recently elsewhere to present at XTempLLMs. Please send the details of your paper (Paper title, authors, publication venue, abstract, and a link to download the paper) directly to xtempllms@gmail.com. This allows such papers to gain more visibility from the workshop audience.
Contact Information
Email:
xtempllms@gmail.comm