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 November 3, 2025 AOE (Submission site: link)
• Notification of acceptance: November 14, 2025 November 18, 2025
• Workshop date: January 20, 2026

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​

Workshop Agenda​

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	5 mins	Opening Remarks
9:05	45 mins	Invited Talk 1 – Yi R. (May) Fung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Ten Principles of Advanced Multimodal Agent Collaboration
9:50	20 mins	Oral Presentation – Paper 1 Symphony: A Decentralized Multi-Agent Framework for Scalable Collective Intelligence Ji Wang, Yemin Wang, Zhaoyang Guan, Libin Xia, Sicong Jiang, Tianyu Shi
10:10	20 mins	Lightning Talks for Posters
10:30	15 mins	Coffee Break
10:45	45 mins	Invited Talk 2 – Sophia Han (Stanford University)
11:30	60 mins	Poster Session
12:30	80 mins	Lunch Break
13:50	45 mins	Invited Talk 3 – Matthew E. Taylor (University of Alberta)
14:35	30 mins	Specially Invited Oral Talk Agentifying Agentic AI Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum
15:05	40 mins	Fireside Chat & Panel
15:45	20 mins	Coffee Break
16:05	20 mins	Oral Presentation – Paper 2 Utility-Aware Task Decomposition and Exchange across LLM Agents Shunta Kimura, Takuya Hiraoka, Ryota Higa, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Katsuhide Fujita
16:25	20 mins	Oral Presentation – Paper 3 Multi-Agent Collaborative Reward Design for Enhancing Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning Pei Yang, Ke Zhang, Ji Wang, Xiao Chen, Yuxin Tang, Yiqun Duan, Tianyu Shi
16:45	15 mins	Coffee Break
17:00	45 mins	Industrial Demo Session (3 demos, 15 mins each) 1. PeakMojo: Operationalizing Computational Psychometrics via Multi-Agent Consensus (Bary Huang, CTO, Peak Mojo) 2. Qoder Multi-Agent Coding Platform (Yu Hang, Product Lead, Bright Zenith) 3. MassGen for Multi-Agent Generation (Kevin Noel, Core Contributor, AG2)
17:45	20 mins	Oral Presentation – Paper 4 Toward Socially Aware Multi-Agent Systems: Measuring Group-Level Influence of LLM Agents Tianqi Song, Yugin Tan, Zicheng Zhu, Feng Yibin, Yi-Chieh Lee
18:05	10 mins	Award & Closing Remarks

Accepted Papers​

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:​

Organizers:​

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.

Submission Site:​

Please submit your work via: OpenReview Submission Link

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!