"Express Language Modeling" Wins Best Paper at COLM 2026 Efficient Reasoning Workshop
LesterMackey · x · 2026-10-15
The COLM 2026 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning awarded Best Paper to "Express Language Modeling" by Albert Gong, Annabelle Michael Carrell, Raaz Dwivedi, and Lester Mackey. The workshop focuses on reasoning beyond text-only benchmarks into multimodal, spatial, and embodied settings under tight latency, memory, throughput, and serving-cost constraints. Notification of acceptance was postponed from July 31 to August 5 (AoE) due to submission volume; the deadline had been extended to July 19; reviewer applications remain open.
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