The State of GenAI at a Top-Tier Computer Science Conference

The 34th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025) was held in Seoul, South Korea, from November 10 to 14, 2025. CIKM 2025 received a record number of submissions and accepted a record number of papers: the proceedings include 870 papers totaling 7,121 pages. For the first time this year, every submitted paper required a mandatory "GenAI Usage Disclosure" section, detailing any use of generative AI tools in research or writing, in accordance with the ACM Authorship Policy. This paper presents an initial analysis of the GenAI disclosure statements in the final versions of the accepted papers.