03.07.2026
MCML at ICML 2026
86 Accepted Papers (71 Main, and 15 Workshops)
43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026
We are happy to announce that MCML researchers have contributed a total of 86 papers to ICML 2026: 71 Main, and 15 Workshop papers. Congrats to our researchers!
Main Track (71 papers)
Rank-Learner: Orthogonal Ranking of Treatment Effects.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Flow-Based Density Ratio Estimation for Intractable Distributions with Applications in Genomics.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Reading Between the Tokens: Improving Preference Predictions through Mechanistic Forecasting.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
EchoRL: Reinforcement Learning via Rollout Echoing.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Plug-and-Play Benchmarking of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Large-Scale Flow Control.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor’s Toolkit.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Oral Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. GitHub
Don't Walk the Line: Boundary Guidance for Filtered Generation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Beyond Structural Symmetries: Linear Mode Connectivity via Neuron Identifiability.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
SurvDiff: A Diffusion Model for Generating Synthetic Data in Survival Analysis.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Spotlight Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. URL
The Geometry of Reasoning: Self-Evaluation via Layerwise Trajectory Evolution.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Attentive Multi-Layer Fusion for Vision Transformers.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
DynaTok: Token-Based 4D Reconstruction from Partial Point Clouds.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
CHB: A Diagnostic Toolkit for Hardness-Aware Clustering Evaluation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
ExPLAIND: Unifying Model, Data, and Training Attribution to Study Model Behavior.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Width Independent Bounds for the Local Lipschitz Constant of Deep Neural Networks at Random Initialization and after Lazy Training.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Derivative Informed Learning of Exchange-Correlation Functionals.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
An Odd Estimator for Shapley Values.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Nonparametric LLM Evaluation from Preference Data.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Sparse Autoencoders are Topic Models.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Certifying Graph Neural Networks Against Label and Structure Poisoning.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Flatland: The Adventures of Gradient Descent with Large Step Sizes.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
SSL4RL: Revisiting Self-supervised Learning as Intrinsic Reward for Visual-Language Reasoning.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Diamond Maps: Efficient Reward Alignment via Stochastic Flow Maps.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
No Data? No Problem: Robust Vision-Tabular Learning with Missing Values.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
ProbeLLM: Automating Principled Diagnosis of LLM Failures.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Dissecting Multimodal In-Context Learning: Modality Asymmetries and Circuit Dynamics in modern Transformers.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Spotlight Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Continual Learning of Domain-Invariant Representations.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
From Growing to Looping: A Unified View of Iterative Computation in LLMs.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Collapsed Effective Operators for Higher-order Structures.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Speculative Sampling For Faster Molecular Dynamics.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Efficient numeracy in language models through single-token number embeddings.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Spotlight Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Sycophancy is an Educational Safety Risk: Why LLM Tutors Need Sycophancy Benchmarks.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Step-resolved data attribution for looped transformers.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Are Object-Centric Representations Better at Compositional Generalization?
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Graph Neural Networks Are Not Continuous Across Graph Resolutions.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
DISCO: Mitigating Bias in Deep Learning with Conditional Distance Correlation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Spotlight Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Beyond Temperature: Hyperfitting as a Late-Stage Geometric Expansion.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Can Large Language Models Generalize Procedures Across Representations?
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Dynamic Decision Learning: Test-Time Evolution for Abnormality Grounding in Rare Diseases.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agentic Tool-calling and RL Training.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Frequentist Consistency of Prior-Data Fitted Networks for Causal Inference.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
PepCompass: Navigating Peptide Embedding Spaces Using Riemannian Geometry.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Incremental Transformer Neural Processes.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Future Dynamic 3D Reconstruction: A 3D World Model with Disentangled Ego-Motio.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Conflicting Biases at the Edge of Stability: Norm versus Sharpness Regularization.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
DeepBlip: Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects Over Time.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Optimizing Rank for High-Fidelity Implicit Neural Representations.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
TimeSAE: Causal Sparse Decoding for Faithful Explanations of Black-Box Time Series Models.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Gaussian Mean Field Variational Inference can Overestimate Predictive Variance.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Position: Agentic AI Orchestration Should Be Bayes-Consistent.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
The Latent Color Subspace: Emergent Order in High-Dimensional Chaos.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
ShaplEIG: Bayesian Experimental Design for Shapley Value Estimation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. URL GitHub
Optimal conversion from Rényi Differential Privacy to f-Differential Privacy.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
SOTAlign: Semi-Supervised Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models via Optimal Transport.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
On the Generalization in Topology Optimization via Sensitivity-Conditioned Bernoulli Flow Matching.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Trees to Flows and Back: Unifying Decision Trees and Diffusion Models.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
On the Epistemic Uncertainty of Overparametrized Neural Networks.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Approximating f -Divergences with Rank Statistics.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Well-Posed KL-Regularized Control via Wasserstein and Kalman-Wasserstein KL Divergences.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Can Microcanonical Langevin Dynamics Leverage Mini-Batch Gradient Noise?
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Position: The Time for Sampling Is Now! Charting a New Course for Bayesian Deep Learning.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Spotlight Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Calibrated Preference Learning: The Case of Label Ranking.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Task-Awareness Improves LLM Generations and Uncertainty.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
With Argus Eyes: Assessing Retrieval Gaps via Uncertainty Scoring to Detect and Remedy Retrieval Blind Spots.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Optimal Transport Group Counterfactual Explanations.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
DisPOSE: Projected Polystochastic Diffusion for Self-Supervised Multi-View 3D Human Pose Estimation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Exactly Computing do-Shapley Values.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Functional Attention: From Pairwise Affinities to Functional Correspondences.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Interpretable Self-Supervised Learning via Representer Landmarks and Nyström Approximation.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Active Tabular Augmentation via Policy-Guided Diffusion Inpainting.
ICML 2026 - 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Workshops (15 papers)
Beyond Structural Symmetries: Linear Mode Connectivity via Neuron Identifiability.
WSS @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Weight-Space Symmetries at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. Oral Presentation. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Bigger Is Not Better: Inverse Scaling and Arbitration Failure in Counterfactual Visual Grounding.
Mech Interp @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability at the43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. URL
Rethinking Relation-Specific Neurons in Large Language Models.
Mech Interp @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability at the43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Proxy Scoring Enables Benchmarking LLM Forecasters Without Waiting for Outcomes.
Forecast @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Forecasting as a New Frontier of Intelligence at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
From Numbers to Narratives: Goal-Oriented Summarization of Machine Learning Model Differences.
CompLearn @ICML 2026 - 2nd Workshop on Compositional Learning: Safety, Interpretability, and Agents at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
From Accuracy to Visual Dependence: Auditing and Filtering Modality Collapse in Traffic VideoQA.
CTB @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Combining Theory and Benchmarks: Towards A Virtuous Cycle to Understand at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
StylisticBias: A Few Human Visual Cues Drive Most Social Bias in MLLMs.
AI4GOOD @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Good at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL GitHub
Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible.
CompLearn @ICML 2026 - 2nd Workshop on Compositional Learning: Safety, Interpretability, and Agents at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Safety Cost of Steering Vectors Is Separable and Reducible.
AI4GOOD @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Good at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Who Flips? Self- and Cross-Model Counterarguments Reveal Answer Instability in LLMs.
AIWILD @ICML 2026 - 2nd Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Who Flips? Self- and Cross-Model Counterarguments Reveal Answer Instability in LLMs.
AI4GOOD @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Good at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
3D Molecule Generation from Rigid Motifs via SE(3) Flows.
GenBio @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Generative and Agentic AI for Biology at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
Amortised Inference through One-Step Implicit Sampling.
SPIGM @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference and Generative Modeling at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. URL
What Uncertainties Do We Need for Dynamical Systems?
EIML @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. arXiv
Block-Level Recursion: Adaptive Test-Time Routing in Large Language Models.
AdaptFM @ICML 2026 - Workshop on Resource-Adaptive Foundation Model Inference at the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning. Seoul, South Korea, Jul 06-11, 2026. To be published. Preprint available. URL
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