Asiacrypt 2026 affiliated workshop
Cryptography for AI and Trustworthy Ecosystems
A one-day workshop on cryptographic methods for trust across modern AI pipelines, including privacy, integrity, provenance, accountability, and auditability.
- Acronym
- CATE 2026
- Format
- Invited talks, contributed presentations, posters, and panel discussion
- Proceedings
- No formal proceedings
- Planned workshop date
- December 7, 2026
- Status
- Recognized as an Asiacrypt 2026 affiliated event; schedule subject to final Asiacrypt arrangements
About
Modern AI services are ecosystems. Data are collected, filtered, labeled, retrieved, forgotten, and reused; models are trained, fine-tuned, routed, evaluated, and updated; and relays, APIs, agents, credentials, provenance layers, and auditing tools all become part of the security boundary.
CATE 2026 aims to provide a focused forum for cryptographic work that addresses this broader AI ecosystem, beyond secure training and private inference alone.
Topics of Interest
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Private data collection, retrieval, and AI memory
- Privacy-preserving training and inference
- Relay security, routing honesty, and API accountability
- Backdoor prevention, detection, and auditability
- Verifiable unlearning and model update evidence
- Watermarking, steganography, provenance, and attribution
- Secure evaluation and benchmark integrity
- Agent, toolchain, credential, and policy security
- Cryptographic definitions for AI accountability
- Systems, attacks, measurements, and systematizations
- Other cryptographic methods for trustworthy AI ecosystems, broadly construed
Call for Presentations and Posters
CATE 2026 invites presentation and poster abstracts on cryptographic methods for AI and trustworthy ecosystems. Submissions may describe theory, protocols, systems, measurements, attacks, systematizations, research directions, published work, work in progress, or non-publishable but technically useful ideas.
Submission files are flexible. Authors may submit prepared slides, published papers, work-in-progress summaries, or talk abstracts of up to 3 pages.
Please submit through the CATE 2026 submission form.
Requested Information
- Submission title
- Contact author name, affiliation, and email
- Expected presenter
- Preferred presentation format: oral presentation in person, oral presentation remote, poster, or other
- Publication status: published work, unpublished work, mixed presentation, or other
- Venue, if the submission is based on published work
- Short abstract
- Submission files
Important Dates
All dates are Anywhere on Earth and subject to final confirmation.
| Call posted | July 1, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Presentation/poster abstract deadline | September 15, 2026 |
| Notification | October 10, 2026 |
| Final title/abstract for website | October 31, 2026 |
| Program posted | November 6, 2026 |
| Workshop | December 7, 2026 |
Planned Format
The planned format is a full-day workshop with one or two invited long-form presentations, four to six contributed short presentations, a possible poster session, and a closing panel.
Contributed presentations will be selected from short abstracts. At least one author of each accepted oral or poster presentation must register for the workshop.
Organizers
- Mingxun Zhou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Contact: mingxunz@ust.hk.
- Jian Liu, Zhejiang University. Contact: liujian2411@zju.edu.cn.
- Jiaheng Zhang, National University of Singapore.
- Yuncong Hu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.