AgentSearch

AI agents as first-class retrieval targets.
AgentSearch Workshop @SIGIR2026.

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

Excited to see momentum in agent search research 🚀

Interested in this area? Submit to AgentSearch @ SIGIR 2026
📅 Deadline: May 8 (AoE)

https://t.co/aW69s0VAsC

[Bin Wu ✈️ ACL 2026 @binwu_cs]

🚀 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: https://t.co/lXJjpqTvCM

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

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

Submission Types

- Extended abstracts: up to 2 pages (excluding references)
- Research, perspective, and demo papers: 4–9 pages (excluding references)

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

📢 Deadline extended!
AgentSearch Workshop @ SIGIR 2026

📅 New deadline: 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗔𝗼𝗘)

Focus: retrieving & ranking AI agents/tools

🔗 https://t.co/aW69s0VAsC

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

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

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

The workshop co-organizers Bin Wu @binwu_cs and Prof. Emine Yilmaz are from UCL Computer Science @uclcs and UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence @ai_ucl . We appreciate the institutional support.

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

📢 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)

🔗 https://t.co/aW69s0VAsC

#SIGIR #InformationRetrieval #AIagents

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

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

[AgentSearch @AgentSearchIR]

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).

[Bin Wu ✈️ ACL 2026 @binwu_cs]

🚀 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?

🌐 https://t.co/nquvibmVK9
🐦 @AgentSearchIR
🦋 https://t.co/n1F1aFUaKQ

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