About
Recent advances in agentic AI have enabled powerful AI systems capable of reasoning, acting, and adapting in diverse real-world environments. However, deploying such "agents in the wild" introduces profound challenges related to safety, security, trustworthiness, and more.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across academia and industry to discuss emerging research directions and practical challenges in developing safe and secure agents. By fostering collaboration across disciplines, the workshop will help chart the next steps toward reliable and trustworthy agent systems that can operate responsibly in open environments.
Call for Papers
The Workshop on Agents in the Wild at ICLR 2026 invites submissions from researchers and practitioners exploring how intelligent agents can reason, act, and adapt safely and securely in open-ended real-world environments.
As agentic AI systems grow more capable, their deployment in dynamic, unpredictable settings introduces challenges in safety, security, and general trustworthiness. This workshop aims to spark discussion across academia and industry on methods, benchmarks, and frameworks for building reliable and trustworthy agents that can operate responsibly "in the wild."
Scope
We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics related to AI agents, including but not limited to:
- Agentic safety and alignment
- Agent security, privacy, and robustness
- Agentic hallucination and factuality
- Agentic interpretability and transparency
- Agentic fairness and bias
- Evaluating and benchmarking agents
- Multimodal and computer-use agents
- Multi-agent coordination and long-horizon safety
- Post-training and adapting agents
- Agent systems and infrastructure
- Interdisciplinary agentic considerations
- Ethics, society, and governing of agents
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Open: January 1, 2026
- Paper Submission Deadline: January 30, 2026 AoE
- Paper Notification Deadline: March 1, 2026 AoE
- Camera-ready Version Deadline: March 10, 2026 AoE
Submission Guidelines
Format: This workshop offers two seperate submission tracks:
- Regular Papers Track: The workshop welcomes submissions of research and position papers, with options for both long (9-page) and short (4-page) submissions. References and supplementary materials will not count against these limits.
- Tiny Papers Track: We encourage submission of tiny papers (up to 2 pages) to make the workshop more accessible to researchers outside the ML conference publication circuit. These submissions can present implementations of unpublished ideas, modest theoretical results, follow-up experiments, or fresh perspectives on existing work.
Submission site: Submit papers through the Workshop Submission Portal on OpenReview (TBD).
Style file: You must format your submission using the ICLR 2026 LaTeX style file. For convenience, we provide a modified template that refers to our workshop: ICLR 2026 Style Files. Submissions that violate the ICLR style or page limits may be desk-rejected.
Dual-submission policy: The workshop will adopt a non-archival policy, welcoming ongoing and unpublished work, as well as papers under review or recently accepted at other venues (provided they do not breach dual-submission or anonymity policies of the other venue). Workshop submissions can be subsequently or concurrently submitted to other venues.
Visibility: Accepted papers will be made public, but rejected submissions and reviews will not.
Double-blind reviewing: Submissions must be fully anonymized. This policy applies to any supplementary or linked material as well, including code. Any papers found to be in violation of this policy may be desk-rejected.
LLM usage policy: AI-generated papers are not allowed. AI assistance is permitted, but submissions must be primarily human-authored, reflecting original thought and analysis.
Contact: For any questions, please contact us at agentwild-workshop@googlegroups.com.
(Tentative) Schedule
All times are local.
| 8:20–8:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 8:30–9:00 | Invited Talk 1 |
| 9:00–9:30 | Invited Talk 2 |
| 9:30–10:30 | Poster Session 1 |
| 10:30–11:00 | Invited Talk 3 |
| 11:00–11:15 | Spotlight Presentation 1 |
| 11:15–11:30 | Spotlight Presentation 2 |
| 11:30–12:00 | Invited Talk 4 |
| 12:00–12:30 | Invited Talk 5 |
| 12:30–1:30 | Lunch Break |
| 1:30–2:00 | Invited Talk 6 |
| 2:00–2:15 | Spotlight Presentation 3 |
| 2:15–2:30 | Spotlight Presentation 4 |
| 2:30–3:30 | Poster Session 2 |
| 3:30–4:00 | Invited Talk 7 |
| 4:00–4:15 | Spotlight Presentation 5 |
| 4:15–4:30 | Spotlight Presentation 6 |
| 4:30–5:15 | Panel Discussion |
| 5:15–5:45 | Invited Talk 8 |
| 5:45–6:00 | Awards and Closing Remarks |
Invited Speakers and Panelists (Confirmed)
Workshop Organizers
Sponsors
TBD