Call For Papers

REALM’26 invites authors to submit 4-page or 8-page (short/long) papers about their work at the intersection of AI Agents and LLMs. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • 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.

Submission Guidelines

We invite archival and non-archival submissions as long papers (up to 8 pages of content) or short papers (up to 4 pages of content), 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  • Long papers (archival) must be original unpublished work, with concrete evaluation and analysis.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  • Short papers (archival) should be original unpublished work, including a small focused contribution, a negative result, an opinion piece, or an interesting application.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. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format.

All submissions must be anonymous for double-blind review. Author names and affiliations must be omitted.

Archival submissions must not be under review at any other venue for the duration of the REALM review period. Non-archival submissions may overlap with previously published or concurrently submitted work.

We follow the ACL Code of Ethics. Authors are expected to attest to the ethical considerations in their work.

Authors should be aware of OpenReview’s moderation policy for newly created profiles:

  • New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
  • New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically.

All submissions must be made through the following OpenReview link. We also accept papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review (ARR), which can be committed to REALM via the following ARR commitment link. Submissions open on Monday June 1st, 2026.

Preprints and Withdrawals

Preprints (e.g., on arXiv) may be posted publicly at any time and do not violate the anonymity policy, provided the submitted PDF does not link to de-anonymized author information.

If an archival paper is accepted for inclusion in the proceedings, authors must withdraw it from any other venue where it remains under consideration.

To help ensure that all submissions receive at least three reviews, we will ask each submission to nominate one author as a reviewer.

Call for Reviewers

We are also recruiting volunteer reviewers. If you are interested in reviewing for REALM, please sign up using our reviewer registration form. The tentative review period is August 1st to August 29th, 2026. You will need an OpenReview account (with your ~Username).

Camera Ready Version

Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments. Authors will have the chance to change the submission type from non-archival to archival and vice versa until the camera-ready deadline.

Important Dates

  • Submission Opens: Monday June 1st, 2026
  • Submission Deadline: Friday July 17th, 2026
  • Notification of Acceptance: Friday August 14th, 2026
  • Camera Ready Deadline: Sunday August 23rd, 2026
  • Workshop Date: Thursday October 29th, 2026 (9:00am – 5:30pm, Room P1)

All dates are temporary and subject to change. All dealines are calculated at 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).