DESERE25: DESERE: The 2nd Workshop on Decentralized Search and Recommendation

We invite the submission of short research papers to theSecond International Workshop on Decentralized Search and Recommendation (DESERE 2025), to be held in conjunction withCIKM 2025at Seoul, Korea on 14 November 2025. Building on the success of the inauguralDESERE workshop at The Web Conference 2024, this edition continues to advance the discourse on decentralized information access, with a particular focus onprivacy-preserving infrastructures and retrieval algorithms for user-controlled data.

This conference invites submissions addressing, though not exclusively, the following areas: decentralized ir.