CfP: Second Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM) at EMNLP 2026
Ehsan Kamalloo
Second Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM)
29 October 2026, Budapest, Hungary (collocated with EMNLP 2026)
🔗 https://realm-workshop.github.io
✉️ realm-w...@googlegroups.com
Important Dates
Submission deadline ― Wednesday, Aug 05, 2026
ARR commitment (papers with reviews) deadline ― Monday, Aug 31, 2026
Notification of Acceptance ― Monday, Sep 07, 2026
Camera ready due ― Monday, Sep 14, 2026
All deadlines are at 11:59pm AoE (UTC-12).
Topics
We welcome submissions works at the intersection of AI Agents and LLMs
Autonomous Planning and Decision-Making: Mechanisms and models that empower LLM agents to make plans and independent decisions in dynamic environments.
Agent Quality Evaluation: Methodologies to assess the agent performance on complex and long-horizon tasks.
Data and simulation environments: Data architectures, datasets and simulations for building LLM agents.
Coding Agents: Specialized architectures, training strategies, and datasets for software engineering tasks such as code generation, debugging, refactoring, and unit testing.
Agent Architectures: Design and implementation of architectural frameworks that support agency in LLMs, enabling flexibility, scalability, and robustness in various tasks.
Human-Agent and Agent-Agent Interaction: Studies on how LLM agents interact with humans and other agents, including collaboration, feedback, learning, trust, and user experience. Multi-agent systems.
Security, Safety and Robustness: Ensuring the reliability and safety of agentic LLM systems against adversarial scenarios and malicious use.
Ethics and Governance: Frameworks and guidelines for the ethical development, deployment, and oversight of agentic LLM systems.
We particularly welcome contributions in underexplored areas such as multi-cultural settings and value pluralism — for example, cross-cultural reasoning or value-aware agent behavior — in line with our commitment to diversity within the ACL community.
Submissions
We accept archival and non-archival submissions as long papers (up to 8 pages) or short papers (up to 4 pages), plus unlimited pages of references and appendix:
Long papers (archival) must be original unpublished work, with concrete evaluation and analysis. Accepted papers will appear in the ACL Anthology workshop proceedings.
Short papers (archival) should be original unpublished work, including a small focused contribution, a negative result, an opinion piece, or an interesting application. Accepted papers will appear in the ACL Anthology workshop proceedings.
Non-archival papers may present previously published work, work under review elsewhere, or preliminary results. These papers may be presented at the workshop but will not appear in the proceedings. They must follow the same long/short page limits as archival submissions.
All submissions must follow the ACL 2026 style guidelines. The ACL 2026 style files must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and also Microsoft Word format.
ACL Rolling Review Submissions
We also welcome submissions from ACL Rolling Review (ARR). Authors of any papers that are submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews to the workshop. EMNLP 2026 submissions (accepted or rejected) may submit via this path.
Direct submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/REALM
ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/REALM_ARR_Commitment
Double-Blind Reviewing
The review process is double-blind and follows the ARR guidelines on ensuring two-way anonymized review available here. Any violation of these requirements will result in desk rejection.
Organizing Committee
Ehsan Kamalloo - ServiceNow AI Research
Nicolas Gontier - Cohere
Nikolai Rozanov - Imperial College London
Maryam Hashemzadeh - Université de Montreal / Mila
Akhil Arora - Aarhus University
Advisory Board
Siva Reddy - McGill University / Mila
Yu Su - Ohio State University / NeoCognition