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We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!

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Note that policies on social media use may differ from year to year, and are at the discretion of the organizing committee. Another organizer for another conference in another year thought Bsky wasn't worth the effort for them. We disagree, and copy-paste (and potential retag) isn't that much effort

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This year, ICML maintains a presence on Twitter/X, Bsky, and LinkedIn. The other two have much higher engagement than Bsky. We would consider using Facebook as well, but we are currently unable to recover the account (if you work at Meta and can help here, please get in touch!).

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Wrapping up day one of workshops at #icml2026! See you for day 2!

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Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social) brings us a talk “What will be left for us to work on?” At #icml2026

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Join us for this morning’s amazing plenary talk by @verenarieser.bsky.social: “From Behavioral Guardrails to Principled Agency”

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Congrats to the 2026 test of time award winners! #icml2026

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Aviv Regev is delivering one of the keynote talks this year at #icml2026 on Lab in the Loop for drug research and discovery!

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Sham Kakade (@shamkakade.bsky.social) gave an incredible talk this morning to a packed house! #icml2026

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The last part of the welcome remarks is recognizing all the award winners. Check out the blog post for more details on the winners and the process! blog.icml.cc/2026/07/05/a...

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Come to the town hall Thursday to get your questions answered!

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Many were curious or concerned that choosing a dual policy of LLM use would result in disparate outcomes between the two policies. The punchline: the policy choice did not affect the score distribution or decisions in a statistically significant way.

The dual policy for LLM use featured two policies for LLM use, conservative or permissive. All reviewers were matched with a policy consistent with their choice.

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Some measures to address the increased use of LLMs included: a paper assistant tool to help authors, checks for hallucinated references, and a dual policy for LLM use in reviewing.

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A few policies to address growth: PCs chose to avoid caps or fees. They instead chose to have a concurrent submission policy (must disclose), and modified the reciprocal reviewing policy. Other steps were taken in an attempt to maintain review quality.

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The biggest challenge of the ICML 2026 review process was the number of submissions. It doubled in size! The acceptance rate remained roughly stable.

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LLMs made up 17.6% of all accepted papers. While the top subject area remained stable from last year, it seems like applications generally became more popular.

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Progress of submissions in the review process over time. 6,552 papers were accepted (26.6% acceptance rate), 4,257 were withdrawn, 939 were desk rejected, and 12,913 were otherwise rejected.

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The program features a ton of posters, oral presentations, invited talks, workshops, tutorials, socials, and more!

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#ICML2026 had 24,661 submissions from 76,159 authors. Submissions were reviewed by 17,886 reviewers, 1,728 ACs, and 251 SACs, as well as 56 ethics reviewers.

The PC Chairs are presenting the welcome remarks. #ICML2026 has over 20,000 in-person attendees!

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Closing out the technical program for the day, we have Susan Athey (@susanathey.bsky.social) giving an invited talk on causal inference and transformer models.

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The main conference of #ICML2026 begins with an invited talk by Pascale Fung: "Towards AI Agents In the Real World"

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Tutorials and the expo are done: on to day one of the main conference! Highlights today are the plenary talks by Pascale Fung (starting now!) and Susan Athey (4 PM). The latter is followed by opening remarks and the welcome reception.

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Be sure to check out the picturesque Starfield Library! Also located within the Coex complex.

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ICML Conference @icmlconf.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We found the conference MVPs! Thanks for doing a great job as our #ICML2026 program chairs. Stay tuned after the conference for an interview featuring their thoughts and reflections.

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Again, please check out the full blog post for more details on all winners and the selection process. Congrats to all the winners! 🏆🏆🏆 blog.icml.cc?p=1347

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🏆Finally, the Test of Time Award: Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning Originally published at #ICML2016

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🏆One position paper is recognized as Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Paper award: Position: AI/ML Deepfake Research is Misaligned with AI Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (AIG-NCII)

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🏆Five research papers are recognized as Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Paper award (2/2): (cont) ... A Random Matrix Perspective on the Consistency of Diffusion Models To Grok Grokking: Provable Grokking in Ridge Regression

🏆Five research papers are recognized as Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Paper award (1/2): The Obfuscation Atlas: Mapping Where Honesty Emerges in RLVR with Deception Probes Motion Attribution for Video Generation How much can language models memorize? (cont)...

🏆Outstanding Paper is also awarded to the following position paper: Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor’s Toolkit

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🏆Outstanding Paper is awarded to the following research papers: The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language Models High-Accuracy Sampling for Diffusion Models and Log-Concave Distributions

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🏆Announcing the #ICML2026 Awards! 🏆 Including Outstanding Papers (research paper & position paper, winner & honorable mentions) and the Test of Time Award! Check out the blog post for all winners (or read on), laudatio, & description of the processes. blog.icml.cc?p=1347

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