COLM 2026 kicks off next week: 5 invited talks, 24 orals, 856 posters
gregd_nlp · x · 2026-10-02
COLM 2026 has published its full schedule ahead of next week's conference, featuring 5 invited talks, one panel, 24 orals, and 856 posters.
- Chelsea Finn opens with a keynote on "Lessons from Robots for Developing Reliable LLMs"
- Orals cover source-modality monitoring in VLMs, human-agent collaboration evals (CollabSkill), intent reasoning for ambiguous requests, and extracting memorized copyrighted book passages from open-weight models
- Posters span privacy-norm probing in LLMs, activation steering, long-context benchmarks (Oolong, SynthDocBench), and the multitask multimodal generation benchmark MMMG
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