- Web Chair: Douglas Yueming Lai
We thank our support team for their dedication and behind-the-scenes work that makes this workshop possible.
Date: Dec 11/12, 2026 | Location: TBD
An agent environment defines the interaction interface, state transitions, and feedback loop through which a large language model (LLM) learns agentic behavior via multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL). Unlike supervised fine-tuning on fixed, off-policy trajectories, environment-based RL allows agents to learn from their own interactions and outcomes. Recent advances in RL with verifiable rewards (RLVR) have shown that this paradigm can push agents beyond the capabilities captured by demonstration data and improve generalization to novel tasks. However, LLM-based agent training remains an emerging field, and scaling it requires more than simply moving from single-turn to multi-turn rollouts: it requires reliable large-scale interaction through concurrent tool execution, sandboxing, state management, and efficient rollout generation, as well as diverse environments with trustworthy verifiers and reward signals. These challenges motivate research on environment synthesis, automatic curricula, and self-evolving environments, while raising several central questions: How can environments scale across domains such as science, coding, office work, terminal and GUI interaction, embodied control, and multi-agent collaboration, while also supporting increasingly complex and long-horizon tasks? How can tasks, rewards, and verifiers be generated and adapted automatically? And how can reliable supervision be maintained while avoiding reward hacking, spurious shortcuts, and brittle evaluation protocols?
We invite contributions in Topics of Interest that are central to the theme of the workshop. However, we emphasize that the topic list is not exhaustive and welcome submissions in related areas. We invite submissions to two tracks:
Page limits exclude references and supplementary material.
We will manage paper submissions through OpenReview. We are recruiting a Program Committee of 200+ reviewers, with each paper receiving three reviews and final acceptance decisions made by the organizing committee with clear conflict-of-interest enforcement. All accepted papers will be non-archival, consistent with NeurIPS workshop policy, and will be presented in poster sessions. We will additionally select 5–10 Spotlight papers and one Best Paper Award.
| Jul 15, 2026 | Call for Papers |
| Aug 29, 2026 | Paper Submission Deadline |
| Sep 22, 2026 | Reviews Due |
| Sep 29, 2026 | Author Notification |
| Nov 10, 2026 | Camera-ready + Video |
| Dec 11/12, 2026 | Workshop at NeurIPS |
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 08:00 | Opening Remarks |
| 08:15 | Invited Talk 1 |
| 09:00 | Invited Talk 2 |
| 09:45 | Morning Break |
| 10:00 | Spotlight Talks (Session 1) |
| 10:30 | Invited Talk 3 |
| 11:15 | Invited Talk 4 |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 12:10 | Poster Session 1 |
| 13:10 | Spotlight Talks (Session 2) |
| 13:30 | Invited Talk 5 |
| 14:15 | Invited Talk 6 |
| 15:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 15:10 | Panel Discussion |
| 15:50 | Poster Session 2 |
| 16:50 | Closing Remarks |
We thank our support team for their dedication and behind-the-scenes work that makes this workshop possible.