We invite submissions to the Workshop on Complex Systems and Language Models, to be held from May 15–17, 2025, in Bordeaux, France. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from NLP, machine learning, complex systems, and computer science to explore the emergent properties, network dynamics, and complex behaviors of large language models and modern AI architectures. We seek to understand these systems through both computational and complex systems approaches.
AI systems increasingly exhibit properties of complex systems, involving multiple scales of interaction, emergent behaviors. Understanding these phenomena requires insights from both CS/NLP methodology and complexity science. This workshop will provide a platform for exploring these intersections, with a focus on both theoretical frameworks and practical applications.
Topics of Interest
Submissions are invited on a range of topics, including but not limited to:
• Multi-scale interactions in artificial intelligence architectures
• Complex network dynamics in machine learning systems
• Theoretical approaches to collective intelligence and multi-agent systems
• Applications of complexity science to AI interpretability and robustness
• Graph-theoretical approaches to attention mechanisms and transformer architectures
• Complex system approaches to few-shot learning and in-context learning
• Multi-agent systems and collective behaviors in language models
• Theoretical frameworks for understanding emergence in deep learning
• Complexity metrics for NLP tasks and model behaviors
• Neuro-symbolic approaches and integration strategies, including symbolic reasoning combined with neural architectures, hybrid systems for enhanced interpretability, and formal methods for verifying neuro-symbolic models
Submission Categories
• Long papers (not previously published work) (12 pages)
• Short papers (not previously published work) (8 pages)
• Extended abstracts (about published or unpublished research) (2 to 4 pages)
Important Dates
• Submission Deadline: March 20, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: April 17, 2025
• Author Registration: April 30, 2025
Submission Guidelines
Submissions should be formatted according to the provided requirements found here: https://iutdijon.u-bourgogne.fr/ccs-france/submissions/
Paper Acceptance and Proceedings Inclusion
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. However, their inclusion in the official conference proceedings is contingent upon a final quality assessment conducted by the conference organizers.
• Long Papers (12 pages) and Short Papers (8 pages):
These papers may be included in the proceedings, provided they pass the final quality check. If a paper does not meet the publication standards, it will still be accepted for presentation at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. In such cases, authors may opt to submit an extended abstract for inclusion in the Book of Abstracts.
• Extended Abstracts:
Extended abstracts will not undergo review for proceedings inclusion but will be automatically published in the Book of Abstracts.
Authors will receive separate notifications regarding the final status of their paper in the proceedings. For any inquiries, please contact the workshop organizers.
Program committee
– Maria Alice Bertolim, Université Bourgogne Europe, IMB
– Christophe Cruz, Université Bourgogne Europe, ICB
– Hocine Cherifi, Université Bourgogne Europe, ICB
– Rémy Descoupes, INRAE, TETIS
– Roberto Interdonato, INRAE, TETIS
We are pleased to announce DAVI.ai as our main industry partner for this workshop.
Contact
For inquiries, please contact Christophe Cruz at ccruz@ube.fr
We look forward to your contributions and participation.