AAMAS 2026 BEST PAPER AWARDS
Best Paper Nominees
- 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
UNCAP: Uncertainty-Guided Neurosymbolic Planning Using Natural Language Communication for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles
Session: SOPS 2 – Planning and Learning - Longyin Cui
Ratio-Based Signaling for Source-Victim Separation in Swarm Fault Detection
Session: May 27 – AM Poster Session - Manuel Eberl and Patrick Lederer
The Impossibility of Strategyproof Rank Aggregation
Session: GTEP 5 – Social Choice - Seongmin Kim, Giseung Park, Woojun Kim, Jiwon Jeon, Seungyul Han, and Youngchul Sung
Generalized Per-Agent Advantage Estimation for Multi-Agent Policy Optimization
Session: LEARN 2 – Cooperative MARL - Maoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Haoyuan Li, and Jiamou Liu
R-Debater: Retrieval-Augmented Debate Generation through Argumentative Memory
Session: RR2 – Argumentation - Benedict Russell, Chin-wing Leung, and Paolo Turrini
Defection at First Sight: Learning Partner Selection in Optional Social Dilemmas without Prior Information
Session: COINE 1 – Coordination and Cooperation - Nicolas Schwind, Gauvain Bourgne, and Katsumi Inoue
Characterizing Consensuses in Belief Flow Networks
Session: RR 5 – Representation, Reasoning, Observability and Optimization - Nimrod Talmon and Ehud Shapiro
Grassroots Federation: Fair Democratic Governance at Scale
Session: COINE 2 – AI Alignment, Fairness and Ethics - Yohai Trabelsi, Guojun Xiong, Fentabil Getnet, Stéphane Verguet, and Milind Tambe
Health Facility Location in Ethiopia: Leveraging LLMs to Integrate Expert Knowledge into Algorithmic Planning
Session: IA1 – LLM Applications - Baiqing Wang, Helei Cui, Bo Zhang, Xiaolong Zheng, Bin Guo, and Zhiwen Yu
MeCo: Enhancing LLM-Empowered Multi-Robot Collaboration via Similar Task Memoization
Session: ROBOT 2 – Multi-Robot Systems and Coordination
Best Paper Award Winner
Mireia Yurrita, Davide DellAnna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Catholijn M Jonker, and Pinar Yolum
Developing Guidelines for Human-LLM Agent Teams: A Multi-Stakeholder Lens
Session: HAI 1 – Human-Agent Interaction
Best Student Paper Nominees
- Patrick Becker, Alexander Fries, Matthias Greger, and Erel Segal-Halevi
Efficiently Computing Equilibria in Budget-Aggregation Games
Session: GTEP 11 - Grant Douglas, Stephen Franklin, Claudia Szabo, and Mingyu Guo
Building Large-Scale Drone Defenses from Small-Team Strategies
Session: IA2 - Jessica Lally, Milad Kazemi, and Nicola Paoletti
Robust Counterfactual Inference in Markov Decision Processes
Session: RR4 - Yue Zhang, Zhe Chen, Daniel Harabor, Pierre Le Bodic, and Peter J. Stuckey
Flow-Based Task Assignment for Large-Scale Online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery
Session: SOPS1 – Multi-Agent Path Finding - Siyue Ren, Wanli Fu, Xinkun Zou, Chen Shen, Yi Cai, Chu Chen, Zhen Wang, and Shuyue Hu
Reputation as a Solution to Cooperation Collapse in LLM-based MASs
Session: COINE 1 – Coordination and Cooperation
Pragnesh Jay Modi Best Student Paper Award Winner
Anwesha Das, John Duff, Jörg Hoffmann, and Vera Demberg
Planning Ahead with RSA: Efficient Signalling in Dynamic Environments by Projecting User Awareness across Future Timesteps
Session: HAI 1 – Human-Agent Interaction
Best Blue Sky Papers
- Nirav Ajmeri, Marina De Vos, Davide Dell’Anna, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Vivek Nallur, Luis Gustavo Nardin, and Munindar P. SinghGuiding Sociotechnical Systems toward Value-Norm Equilibrium
Session: Blue Sky 3
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Blue Sky Ideas Award Winner
Florent Delgrange
Foundation World Models for Agents that Learn, Verify, and Adapt Reliably Beyond Static Environments
Session: Blue Sky 1
- Rustam Galimullin, Maksim Gladyshev, Munyque Mittelmann, and Nima MotamedThe Dynamic Turn in Strategy Logics
Session: Blue Sky 2