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LLA 2026
COLM 2026 The 2nd Workshop on Lifelong Agents: Learning, Aligning, and Evolving
The 2nd Workshop on Lifelong Agents: Learning, Aligning, and Evolving (COLM 2026) focuses on AI agents that continuously learn, adapt, and maintain alignment over extended deployment. It brings together research on persistent memory, continual adaptation, tool use, dynamic alignment, reliability, and multi-agent systems to establish a rigorous roadmap for responsible and sustainable lifelong agents.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
July 11, 2026
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Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
July 11, 2026 · AoE
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Contribution paths
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Short Paper
Up to 5 pages (main text); references and appendices excluded from page limit.
Research areas in scope
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Topics
Persistent Memory and PersonalizationContinual Adaptation of Agentic LLMsComputer-Use and Web AgentsProtocols, Tools, and InteroperabilityDynamic Alignment and AuditingReliability, Observability, and EvaluationMulti-Agent Lifelong SystemsEfficient and Sustainable Lifelong Agents
Policies worth checking twice
- Submissions must be anonymous for double-blind review.
- Author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments must be removed.
- Prior work must be cited in the third person.
- Submissions exceeding page limits will be desk rejected.
- Reviewers are not required to read beyond the main text.
- Dual submission to ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, ACL, or EMNLP is allowed.
- The workshop is non-archival.
- Accepted papers must make original submissions, reviews, and meta-reviews publicly available on OpenReview.
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026