Proceedings of the Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Thirty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Sixteenth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Edited by Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
January 20–27, 2026, Singapore.

Published by AAAI Press, Washington, DC, USA
Copyright © 2026, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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ISSN 2374-3468 (Online)
ISSN 2159-5399 (Print)
ISBN-10: 1-57735-906-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-57735-906-7

The Fortieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on January 20 -- January 27, 2026, Singapore. The program chairs were Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan, USA) and Matthew Taylor (University of Alberta, Canada).

AAAI-26 welcomed submissions on research that advances artificial intelligence, broadly conceived. The conference featured technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs. Many of these activities were tailored to the theme of bridges and were selected according to the highest standards, with additional programs for students and young researchers. In addition to the Main Technical Track, authors were encouraged to submit papers for the Special Track on AI for Social Impact and the Special Track on AI Alignment.

AAAI-26 received unprecedented interest from the global AI community. Nearly 29,000 papers were submitted to the Main Technical Track, with roughly 23,000 remaining under review after policy compliance filtering. This represents nearly twice the number of papers reviewed at AAAI-25. Submissions came from over 75,000 unique authors, with particularly strong engagement from China, which accounted for approximately 20,000 of the total submissions. The three largest research areas by submission volume were Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing. To meet this demand, the Program Committee was expanded to over 28,000 members, nearly three times the size of the previous year's committee.

Driven by its disciplinary diversity, AAAI has incubated numerous AI sub-disciplines and conferences and has nurtured for decades the cohesion of AI. The purpose of this year's Bridge Program is to tap into new sources of innovation by cultivating collaboration between two or more communities directed towards a common goal. Hence, the communities that our Bridge Program is intended to bring together could be distinct subfields of AI, such as planning and learning, or different disciplines that contribute to and benefit from AI, such as AI and the humanities.
The conference scope included machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, data mining, multiagent systems, knowledge representation, human-in-the-loop AI, search, planning, reasoning, robotics and perception, and ethics. In addition to fundamental work that focused on any one of these areas, AAAI-26 encouraged work across technical areas of AI, (e.g., machine learning and computer vision; computer vision and natural language processing; or machine learning and planning), bridges between AI and a related research area (e.g., neuroscience; cognitive science) or developing AI techniques in the context of important application domains, such as healthcare, sustainability, transportation, and commerce.

The conference also continued its tradition of colocating with the long-running Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence conference (IAAI-26). IAAI-26 was chaired by Eren Kurshan (Princeton University, USA). The IAAI-26 papers are included in this proceedings. Also included are the papers from the Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-26). EAAI-26 was cochaired by Narges Norouzi (University of California Berkeley, USA) and Lisa Zhang (University of Toronto, Canada).

The proceedings have been published in 48 consecutive issues:

1. Vol 40 No. 1: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 1
   • AAAI Technical Track on Application Domains I
2. Vol 40 No. 2: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 2
   • AAAI Technical Track on Application Domains II
3. Vol 40 No. 3: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 3
   • AAAI Technical Track on Cognitive Modeling & Cognitive Systems
4. Vol 40 No. 4: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 4
   • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision I
5. Vol 40 No. 5: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 5
   • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision II
6. Vol 40 No. 6: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 6
   • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision III
7. Vol 40 No. 7: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 7
   • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision IV
8. Vol 40 No. 8: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 8
   • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision V
9. Vol 40 No. 9: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 9
   • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision VI
10. Vol 40 No. 10: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 10
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision VII
11. Vol 40 No. 11: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 11
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision VIII
12. Vol 40 No. 12: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 12
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision IX
13. Vol 40 No. 13: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 13
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision X
14. Vol 40 No. 14: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 14
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision XI
15. Vol 40 No. 15: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 15
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision XII
16. Vol 40 No. 16: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 16
    • AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision XIII
17. Vol 40 No. 17: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 17
    • AAAI Technical Track on Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
    • AAAI Technical Track on Data Mining & Knowledge Management I
18. Vol 40 No. 18: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 18
    • AAAI Technical Track on Data Mining & Knowledge Management II
19. Vol 40 No. 19: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 19
    • AAAI Technical Track on Data Mining & Knowledge Management III
20. Vol 40 No. 20: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 20
    • AAAI Technical Track on Game Theory and Economic Paradigms
21. Vol 40 No. 21: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 21
    • AAAI Technical Track on Humans and AI
22. Vol 40 No. 22: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 22
    • AAAI Technical Track on Intelligent Robotics
23. Vol 40 No. 23: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 23
    • AAAI Technical Track on Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
24. Vol 40 No. 24: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 24
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning I
25. Vol 40 No. 25: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 25
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning II
26. Vol 40 No. 26: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 26
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning III
27. Vol 40 No. 27: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 27
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning IV
28. Vol 40 No. 28: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 28
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning V
29. Vol 40 No. 29: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 29
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning VI
30. Vol 40 No. 30: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 30
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning VII
31. Vol 40 No. 31: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 31
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning VIII
32. Vol 40 No. 32: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 32
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning IX
33. Vol 40 No. 33: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 33
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning X
34. Vol 40 No. 34: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 34
    • AAAI Technical Track on Machine Learning XI
35. Vol 40 No. 35: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 35
    • AAAI Technical Track on Multiagent Systems
36. Vol 40 No. 36: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 36
    • AAAI Technical Track on Natural Language Processing I
37. Vol 40 No. 37: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 37
    • AAAI Technical Track on Natural Language Processing II
38. Vol 40 No. 38: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 38
    • AAAI Technical Track on Natural Language Processing III
39. Vol 40 No. 39: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 39
    • AAAI Technical Track on Natural Language Processing IV
40. Vol 40 No. 40: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 40
    • AAAI Technical Track on Natural Language Processing V
41. Vol 40 No. 41: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 41
    • AAAI Technical Track on Natural Language Processing VI
42. Vol 40 No. 42: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 42
    • AAAI Technical Track on Philosophy and Ethics of AI
43. Vol 40 No. 43: AAAI-26 Technical Tracks 43
    • AAAI Technical Track on Planning, Routing, and Scheduling
    • AAAI Technical Track on Reasoning under Uncertainty
    • AAAI Technical Track on Search and Optimization
44. Vol 40 No. 44: AAAI-26 Special Track on AI Alignment
    • AAAI Special Track on AI Alignment
45. Vol 40 No. 45: AAAI-26 Special Track AI for Social Impact I
    • AAAI Special Track on AI for Social Impact I
46. Vol 40 No. 46: AAAI-26 Special Track AI for Social Impact II and Senior Member Presentations
    • AAAI Special Track on AI for Social Impact II
    • Senior Member Presentation
47. Vol 40 No. 47: AAAI-26 New Faculty Highlights, Journal Track, IAAI-26 and EAAI-26 Main Track
    • New Faculty Highlights
    • AAAI Journal Track
    • IAAI Technical Track on Deployed Highly Innovative Applications of AI
    • IAAI Technical Track on Emerging Applications of AI
    • IAAI Technical Track on Tools and Methodologies for Moving Faster and Safer
    • EAAI Symposium: Main track
    • EAAI Symposium: Resources for Teaching AI in K-12
48. Vol 40 No. 48: EAAI-26 AI for Education, Model AI Assignments, AAAI-26 Emerging Trends, Doctoral Consortium, Student Abstracts, Undergraduate Consortium and Demonstrations
    • EAAI Symposium: AI for Education
    • EAAI Symposium: Model AI Assignments
    • AAAI Emerging Trends in AI
    • AAAI Doctoral Consortium Track
    • AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program
    • AAAI Undergraduate Consortium
    • AAAI Demonstration Track