The AAMAS 2026 best paper awards were presented at the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, which took place from 25-29 May 2025 in Paphos, Cyprus. The winners and nominees in the three categories (best paper, best student paper, best blue sky paper) are as follows:
Best Paper Award
Winner
- Developing Guidelines for Human-LLM Agent Teams: A Multi-Stakeholder Lens, Mireia Yurrita, Davide Dell’Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Catholijn M Jonker, and Pinar Yolum
Nominees
- UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles, Neel P. Bhatt, Po-han Li, Kushagra Gupta, Rohan Siva, Daniel Milan, Alexander Todd Hogue, Sandeep P. Chinchali, David Fridovich-Keil, Zhangyang Wang, and Ufuk Topcu
- Ratio-Based Signaling for Source-Victim Separation in Swarm Fault Detection, Longyin Cui
- The Impossibility of Strategyproof Rank Aggregation, Manuel Eberl and Patrick Lederer
- Generalized Per-Agent Advantage Estimation for Multi-Agent Policy Optimization, Seongmin Kim, Giseung Park, Woojun Kim, Jiwon Jeon, Seungyul Han, and Youngchul Sung
- R-Debater: Retrieval-Augmented Debate Generation through Argumentative Memory, Maoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Haoyuan Li, and Jiamou Liu
- Defection at First Sight: Learning Partner Selection in Optional Social Dilemmas without Prior Information, Benedict Russell, Chin-wing Leung, and Paolo Turrini
- Characterizing Consensuses in Belief Flow Networks, Nicolas Schwind, Gauvain Bourgne, and Katsumi Inoue
- Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale, Nimrod Talmon and Ehud Shapiro
- Health Facility Location in Ethiopia: Leveraging LLMs to Integrate Expert Knowledge into Algorithmic Planning, Yohai Trabelsi, Guojun Xiong, Fentabil Getnet, Stéphane Verguet, and Milind Tambe
- MeCo: Enhancing LLM-Empowered Multi-Robot Collaboration via Similar Task Memoization, Baiqing Wang, Helei Cui, Bo Zhang, Xiaolong Zheng, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu
Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award
Winner
- Planning Ahead with RSA: Efficient Signalling in Dynamic Environments by Projecting User Awareness across Future Timesteps, Anwesha Das, John Duff, Jörg Hoffmann, and Vera Demberg
Nominees
- Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games, Patrick Becker, Alexander Fries, Matthias Greger, and Erel Segal-Halevi
- Building Large-Scale Drone Defenses from Small-Team Strategies, Grant Douglas, Stephen Franklin, Claudia Szabo, and Mingyu Guo
- Robust Counterfactual Inference in Markov Decision Processes, Jessica Lally, Milad Kazemi, and Nicola Paoletti
- Flow-Based Task Assignment for Large-Scale Online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery, Yue Zhang, Zhe Chen, Daniel Harabor, Pierre Le Bodic, and Peter J. Stuckey
- Reputation as a Solution to Cooperation Collapse in LLM-based MASs, Siyue Ren, Wanli Fu, Xinkun Zou, Chen Shen, Yi Cai, Chu Chen, Zhen Wang, and Shuyue Hu
Blue Sky Ideas Award
Winner
- Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond Static Environments, Florent Delgrange
Nominees
- Guiding Sociotechnical Systems toward Value-Norm Equilibrium, Nirav Ajmeri, Marina De Vos, Davide Dell’Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Vivek Nallur, Luis Gustavo Nardin, and Munindar P. Singh
- The Dynamic Turn in Strategy Logics, Rustam Galimullin, Maksim Gladyshev, Munyque Mittelmann, and Nima Motamed