Call for Participations and Papers
Shared Task for the 3rd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2025) at the 18th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2025)
# Summary
Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attention. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. We will hold 5-players and 13-players tracks.
# Schedule
Shared tasks August 9, 2025: Competition Registration Deadline August 9, 2025: Preliminary Round (Self-play) Result Submission Deadline Mid August 2025: Final Round (Online Matches)
Workshop papers August 26, 2025: Paper Submission Deadline September 24, 2025: Notification of Acceptance October 3, 2025: Camera-ready Submission Deadline
INLG 2025 Conference Period October 29 - November 2, 2025 (in Hanoi) October 30, 2025: AIWolfDial 2025 Workshop in Hanoi/online (Paper Presentations and Competition Results)
Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2025 workshop at INLG 2025 (18th International Natural Language Generation Conference). Our workshop will be held in Hanoi, Vietnam and online on October 30th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2025 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop and present in the workshop day.
Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ We have a seperate call for papers of our workshop.
# Why AI Werewolf?
Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics.
The AIWolfDial 2025 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area.
From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications.
Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in English.
# Registration
A team should send required information via https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Registration is free.
# System Evaluation
Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. F Team play
# Call for Papers
We call for short papers and long papers as same as the INLG main conference, both for shared task papers and papers in general. Please use the ACL format as specified in the INLG conference webpage. Submission site will open soon. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and published as part of our workshop proceedings in the ACL anthology.
# Organizers
Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Local Organizers: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuya Harada, Shizuoka University, Japan
Links (same as above): Registration https://forms.gle/WuZdfjFAvLV98NU49 Contest and workshop website https://aiwolfdial.github.io/aiwolf-nlp/en/ INLG 2025 https://2025.inlgmeeting.org/
Contact; aiwolf@kanolab.net
On behalf of the AIWolf organizers