We have received several requests for a little more time to prepare submissions. To allow authors to further polish their papers, we are extending the LM Playschool Workshop paper submission deadline.

⚠️ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 17, 2026 This extension applies to: * Paper-only submissions on topics relevant to the workshop, such as those listed below * Technical reports accompanying submitted models for the LM Playschool Challenge

🎯 PAPER-ONLY TRACK: TOPICS OF INTEREST * Architectures and training regimes for interactive agents * Intrinsic rewards and learning signals, including RL from game-state success * Benchmarking and evaluation via dialogue games * Data efficiency, social interaction, and Theory of Mind * Human-agent collaboration, coordination, and communicative grounding

📅 IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED!) 🟠 Workshop paper submission deadline: July 17, 2026 (extended!) ⚪ Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 2, 2026 ⚪ Notification of acceptance: August 8, 2026 ⚪ Camera-ready due: August 23, 2026 ⚪ Workshop at EMNLP 2026 in Budapest: October 28, 2026

You can find more information on our website: https://lm-playschool.github.io/

We look forward to your submissions!

Organisers: Raffaella Bernardi, Raquel Fernández, Mario Giulianelli, Sherzod Hakimov, Alexander Koller, Dieu-Thu Le, Oliver Lemon, Davide Mazzaccara, Sabrina McCallum, David Schlangen, Alessandro Suglia