Schedule

Date April 26, 2026

See the full schedule on the ICLR website.

Time (BRT) Event
9:00 - 9:30 Invited talk 1 - David Bau (Northeastern University)
9:30 - 10:00 Invited talk 2 - Julia Kempe (NYU & Meta)
10:00 - 10:30 Invited talk 3 - Jeremy Cohen (Flatiron Institute)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break - Mentorship program
10:45 - 11:00 Contributed Talk 1 - Zeroth-Order Optimization at the Edge of Stability
11:00 - 11:15 Contributed Talk 2 - Less Data, Faster Training: sampling bias from small dataset can speed up training
11:15 - 11:30 Contributed Talk 3 - Optimal scaling laws in learning hierarchical multi-index models
11:30 - 12:30 Poster Session 1
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00 Invited talk 4 - Richard Baraniuk (Rice University & OpenStax)
14:00 - 14:30 Invited talk 5 - Matthieu Wyart (Johns Hopkins University & EPFL)
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee Break - Mentorship program
14:45 - 15:45 Panel Discussion: David Bau, Julia Kempe, Jeremy Cohen, Richard Baraniuk, Matthieu Wyart
15:45 - 16:00 Competition Winners Announcement
16:00 - 17:00 Poster Session 2