- (10/2) WMAC 2026 website and CFP are now live.
WMAC 2026: AAAI 2026 Bridge Program on Advancing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration
We invite submissions to the AAAI 2026 Bridge Program on Advancing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration, to be held in Singapore during the AAAI 2026 conference (January 20, 2026).
Overview:
This full-day program seeks to ignite discussion on cutting-edge research and challenges for bridging the gap between Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) / Distributed AI. As LLMs continue to showcase the ability to coordinate multiple AI agents for complex problem-solving, the program will delve into pivotal open research questions that advance the understanding and potential of LLM-based multi-agent collaboration.
We invite submissions on a range of topics, including but not limited to:
- Interoperability: Design of protocols/methodologies that support a set of heterogeneous LLM-based agents to communicate, share knowledge, and collaborate reliably across platforms and modalities.
- Coordination & Planning: MAS methods (e.g., distributed planning, MARL-based methods) adapted to improve LLM-driven multi-agent systems that commonly use natural language as the interface of reasoning and communication.
- Knowledge Sharing & Memory: Architectures for stable, transparent sharing of context and memory among heterogeneous agents.
- Scalability & Robustness: Scaling from small teams of agents to large, dynamic populations while preventing instability.
- Social Norms & Governance: Embedding MAS insights on incentives, trust, and governance into LLM-driven agents to ensure alignment across a large number of agents.
- Evaluation & Benchmarks: Benchmarking the collaboration aspect of an LLM-based multi-agent system, such as extending the MAS benchmarks (e.g., PettingZoo, RoboCup) for LLM+MAS systems?
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: October 31, 2025 (Submission site: link)
- Notification of acceptance: November 14, 2025
- Workshop date: January 20, 2026
Submission Guidelines:
We welcome both short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 8 pages) following the AAAI format. Submissions may include recently published work, under-review papers, work in progress, and position papers. All submissions will undergo peer review through a double-blind process. While publication in our program is non-archival, accepted papers will be featured on our website with the author's permission.
- Please submit your paper with author names anonymized.
- The page limit (4 pages for short and 8 pages for long papers) does not include references or appendices. The references and appendices can have unlimited number of pages.
Submission Site:
Please submit your work via: OpenReview Submission Link
Program Format:
The one-day program will feature invited talks, panel discussion, demos, oral and poster presentations. Similar to last year, we will elect one best paper from the submissions. Additional details on speakers and the schedule will be available on our website.
Invited Speakers
Tao Yu
The University of Hong Kong
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Open Foundations for Computer-Use Agents
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Workshop Agenda (Tentative)
The workshop features invited talks, oral presentations, a lightning talk session, poster session, and panel discussion. More details on invited speakers and workshop agenda can be found on our website.
The table below shows a tentative workshop agenda. Note that the actual agenda will be adjusted according to the conference schedule.
| Time | Duration | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:05 | 5 mins | Opening Remarks |
| 9:05 – 9:40 | 35 mins | Invited Talk 1 Coming Soon |
| 9:40 – 10:15 | 35 mins | Invited Talk 2 Coming Soon |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | 15 mins | Oral Presentation – Paper 1 Coming Soon |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | 30 mins | Break (Light refreshments) |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | 15 mins | Oral Presentation – Paper 2 Coming Soon |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | 20 mins | Lightning Talk Session |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | 55 mins | Poster Session |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | 90 mins | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:35 | 35 mins | Invited Talk 3 Coming Soon |
| 14:35 – 15:10 | 35 mins | Invited Talk 4 Coming Soon |
| 15:10 – 15:25 | 15 mins | Oral Presentation – Paper 3 Coming Soon |
| 15:25 – 15:30 | 5 mins | Buffer Time |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | 30 mins | Break (Light refreshments) |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | 45 mins | Panel Discussion |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | 15 mins | Award & Closing Remarks |
Attendance
- All presentations will be in-person.
- In-person participation is encouraged but remote participation will be supported for talks.
- All workshop attendees (in-person/remote) need to register for the workshop section of AAAI 2026.
Sponsors:
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Organizers:
Alborz Geramifard
Alex Marin
Thomson Reuters
Raphael Shu
Acenta AI
Weiyan Shi
Northeastern University
Tao Yu
The University of Hong Kong
Yi Zhang
Amazon AWS GenAI
Yusen Zhang
Columbia University
Contact:
For questions, please contact us at pc@multiagents.org
More information can be found on our workshop website: https://multiagents.org
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you at the workshop!