Agents in the Wild Workshop

News

[4/10/2026] Call for Papers — The call for papers is posted! Check out our X and LinkedIn posts. Also, the submission portal is now open!
[4/1/2026] Workshop Accepted — The workshop has been accepted by ICML! See you in Seoul!

About

AI agents are being rapidly deployed in the real world — from OpenAI's Operator to open-source tools like OpenClaw — yet safety & security research still lags behind. As these systems reason, act, and adapt in open-ended environments, they introduce profound and emerging challenges around safety, security, and trustworthiness that the research community is only beginning to face.

This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners across academia and industry to chart the next steps toward reliable agents that can operate responsibly in the wild. We build on the momentum of our first workshop at ICLR 2026, which drew 235 submissions and over 800 anticipated attendees.

Call for Papers

The Second Workshop on Agents in the Wild at ICML 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: April 10, 2026 AoE
Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2026 AoE
Paper Notification Deadline: May 15, 2026 AoE
Camera-ready Version Deadline: June 15, 2026 AoE

Submission Guidelines

Format: This workshop offers two seperate submission tracks:

Regular Papers Track: The workshop welcomes submissions of research and position papers (9 pages). References and supplementary materials will not count against these limits.
Short Papers Track: We encourage submission of short papers (4 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. References and supplementary materials do not count against the 4-page limit.

Submission site: Submit papers through the Workshop Submission Portal on OpenReview. Please be sure to create an OpenReview profile at least two weeks in advance of the paper submission deadline.

Style file: You must format your submission using the ICML 2026 LaTeX style file. For convenience, we provide a modified template that refers to our workshop: download here. Submissions that violate the ICML 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-icml2026@googlegroups.com.

(Tentative) Schedule

All times are local.

9:00–9:10	Opening Remarks
9:10–9:40	Invited Talk 1
9:40–10:10	Invited Talk 2
10:10–11:00	Poster Session 1 + Morning Snack Break
11:00–11:30	Invited Talk 3
11:30–12:00	Invited Talk 4
12:00–13:00	Lunch
13:00–13:45	Panel Discussion
13:45–13:50	Contributed Talk 1
13:50–13:55	Contributed Talk 2
13:55–14:00	Contributed Talk 3
14:00–14:30	Invited Talk 5
14:30–15:00	Invited Talk 6
15:00–15:50	Poster Session 2 + Afternoon Snack Break
15:50–16:20	Invited Talk 7
16:20–16:50	Invited Talk 8
16:50–17:00	Awards & Closing