22.04.2026
MCML at ICLR 2026
45 Accepted Papers (37 Main, and 8 Workshops)
14th International Conference on Learning Representations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026
We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 45 papers to ICLR 2026: 37 Main, and 8 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!
Main Track (37 papers)
Random Spiking Neural Networks are Stable and Spectrally Simple.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
The Price of Robustness: Stable Classifiers Need Overparameterization.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
On the Impossibility of Separating Intelligence from Judgment: The Computational Intractability of Filtering for AI Alignment.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Post-hoc Probabilistic Vision-Language Models.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Language Agents for Hypothesis-driven Clinical Decision Making with Reinforcement Learning.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Rewarding Doubt: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Calibrated Confidence Expression of Large Language Models.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
NOVA3R: Non-pixel-aligned Visual Transformer for Amodal 3D Reconstruction.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Fast training of accurate physics-informed neural networks without gradient descent.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. Oral Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Steering MoE LLMs via Expert (De)Activation.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv GitHub
Person-Centric Annotations of LAION-400M: Auditing Bias and Its Transfer to Models.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv URL
Adapting Self-Supervised Representations as a Latent Space for Efficient Generation.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
IGC-Net for conditional average potential outcome estimation over time.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Efficient and Sharp Off-Policy Learning under Unobserved Confounding.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Overlap-weighted orthogonal meta-learner for treatment effect estimation over time.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Efficient Credal Prediction through Decalibration.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
An Orthogonal Learner for Individualized Outcomes in Markov Decision Processes.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Human Uncertainty-Aware Data Selection and Automatic Labeling in Visual Question Answering.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
GDR-learners: Orthogonal Learning of Generative Models for Potential Outcomes.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Foundation Models for Causal Inference via Prior-Data Fitted Networks.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Overlap-Adaptive Regularization for Conditional Average Treatment Effect Estimation.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Purrception: Variational Flow Matching for Vector-Quantized Image Generation.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Graph Representational Learning: When Does More Expressivity Hurt Generalization?
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Beyond Uniformity: Regularizing Implicit Neural Representations through a Lipschitz Lens.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Compositional-ARC: Assessing Systematic Generalization in Abstract Spatial Reasoning.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Rapid training of Hamiltonian graph networks without gradient descent.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Amortising Inference and Meta-Learning Priors in Neural Networks.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Are Reasoning LLMs Robust to Interventions on Their Chain-of-Thought?
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
GradPCA: Leveraging NTK Alignment for Reliable Out-of-Distribution Detection.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
StreamingThinker: Large Language Models Can Think While Reading.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
On learning linear dynamical systems in context with attention layers.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Is It Thinking or Cheating? Detecting Implicit Reward Hacking by Measuring Reasoning Effort.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. Oral Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Reliable Evaluation of MRI Motion Correction: Dataset and Insights.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
When More is Less: Understanding Chain-of-Thought Length in LLMs.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Reinforcement Unlearning via Group Relative Policy Optimization.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
WebArbiter: A Principle-Guided Reasoning Process Reward Model for Web Agents.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Foundation Visual Encoders Are Secretly Few-Shot Anomaly Detectors.
ICLR 2026 - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Workshops (8 papers)
Cached Foundation Model Summaries for Memory-Efficient Clinical Time Series Inference.
TSALM @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
DDNO: Discrete Diffusion Noise Optimization.
ReALM-GEN @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Real‑World Constrained and Preference‑Aligned Flow‑ and Diffusion‑Based Models at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
A Credal-Set Perspective on Task-Induced Distributional Drift in Text Generation.
CAO @ICLR 2026 - Workshop Catch, Adapt, and Operate: Monitoring ML Models Under Drift at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
On Closed-Form Couplings.
GRaM @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Geometry-grounded Representation Learning and Generative Modeling at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Revealing Task-Dependent Layer Relevance via Attentive Multi-Layer Fusion.
Sci4DL @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Scientific Methods for Understanding Deep Learning at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Exact Certification of Neural Networks and Partition Aggregation Ensembles against Label Poisoning.
Trustworthy AI @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Principled Design for Trustworthy AI - Interpretability, Robustness, and Safety across Modalities at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv GitHub
Expressive Power of Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks for Sequence Modeling.
TSALM @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
An Experiment-Aware Bayesian Optimization Workflow for Noisy Mixed-Input Settings.
AI4Mat @ICLR 2026 - Workshop on AI for Accelerated Materials Design at the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr 23-27, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
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