NeurIPS 2026 Schedule

Affinity Event

Mon Dec 07 08:00 AM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ C3.6 None

GlobalSouthAI

Tushar Shinde ⋅ Chaker Larabi

Affinity Event

Mon Dec 07 08:00 AM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ Parkside 2 None

LatinX in AI

Ana María Quintero-Ossa ⋅ Laura Montoya ⋅ Rafael Mateus ⋅ Paula Feldman ⋅ Michell Mercedes Payano Pérez ⋅ Melissa Montes

Affinity Event

Mon Dec 07 08:00 AM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ C2.2 & C2.3 None

Muslims in ML

Shaokai Yang ⋅ Ahmed Youssef Ay ⋅ Suleiman Khan

Break

Mon Dec 07 08:00 AM -- 09:00 AM (AEDT) None

Coffee & Snacks

Education Track

Mon Dec 07 08:30 AM -- 04:30 PM (AEDT) @ Room C3.4-C3.5 None

Education Track

Ulrich Paquet ⋅ Daniela Massiceti ⋅ Noam Koenigstein

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:00 PM (AEDT) @ Darling Harbour Theatre None

From Scores to Evidence: Robust Evaluation of Foundation Models

Ana Gjorgjevikj ⋅ Barbara Koroušić Seljak ⋅ Tome Eftimov

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:00 PM (AEDT) @ TikTok Ent Centre None

The Principles of Diffusion Models: Toward Fast and Scalable Diffusion LLMs

Chieh-Hsin Lai ⋅ Subham Sahoo ⋅ Stefano Ermon

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:00 PM (AEDT) @ Pyrmont Theatre None

Multi-Objective Optimization for Modern Machine Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances, and Emerging Applications

Jia (Kevin) Liu ⋅ Chaosheng Dong ⋅ Lisha Chen ⋅ Tianyi Chen ⋅ Kaiyi Ji

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:00 PM (AEDT) @ Grand BR B1 None

Empirical Design in Reinforcement Learning for Physical AI

Adam White ⋅ Martha White ⋅ Andrew Patterson

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:00 PM (AEDT) @ Parkside 1 None

Three Geometric Lenses on Graph Machine Learning

Melanie Weber

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 09:00 AM -- 12:00 PM (AEDT) @ Grand BR B2/B3 None

Uncertainty Quantification: From Detecting LLM Hallucinations to Strengthening Reasoning and AI Agents

Artem Shelmanov ⋅ Ekaterina Fadeeva ⋅ Maxim Panov

Break

Mon Dec 07 12:00 PM -- 02:00 PM (AEDT) None

Retail Lunch

Affinity Event

Mon Dec 07 01:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ C2.5 & C2.6 None

Indigenous in AI

Mike Hill ⋅

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 02:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ Pyrmont Theatre None

Formal Guarantees for Frontier AI Systems

Gagandeep Singh ⋅ Isha Chaudhary ⋅ Nalin Wadhwa

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 02:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ Parkside 1 None

Principles of Deep Representation Learning via Low-Dimensional Models

Yi Ma ⋅ Qing Qu ⋅ Peng Wang

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 02:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ Grand BR B2/B3 None

From Heuristics to Guarantees: Bandit and RL Blueprint for Reliable Agentic-AI

Aadirupa Saha ⋅ Arun Verma ⋅ Djallel Bouneffouf

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 02:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ Grand BR B1 None

Causal Representation Learning

Julius von Kügelgen ⋅ Francesco Locatello ⋅ Kun Zhang

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 02:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ TikTok Ent Centre None

Distilling Reasoning: From Chain-of-Thought to Agentic Capabilities in Smaller Models

Vishrav Chaudhary ⋅ Akhil Arora ⋅ Subbarao Kambhampati

Tutorial

Mon Dec 07 02:00 PM -- 05:00 PM (AEDT) @ Darling Harbour Theatre None

Neuro-Symbolic Learning in the Era of Large Language Models

Haoxuan Li ⋅ Lan-Zhe Guo ⋅ Wang-Zhou Dai

Break

Mon Dec 07 03:00 PM -- 03:30 PM (AEDT) None

Coffee & Snacks

Remarks

Mon Dec 07 05:00 PM -- 05:30 PM (AEDT) @ TikTok Entertainment Center None

Welcome Remarks

Reception

Mon Dec 07 05:30 PM -- 07:00 PM (AEDT) None

Welcome Reception

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