International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 Apple is presenting new research at the annual International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), which takes place in person in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from April 23 to 27. We are proud to again sponsor the conference, which brings together the scientific and industrial research communities focused on deep learning. Below is an overview of Apple’s participation at ICLR 2026: Jump to a section: Schedule Stop by the Apple booth #204 during exhibition hours: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (Thursday, April 23 - Saturday, April 25). All times referenced in schedule are in BRT (local time). Schedule Thursday, April 23 - Pretraining with Hierarchical Memories: Separating Long-Tail and Common Knowledge - 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Poster Session 1, Pavilion 3, #0309 - Hadi Pour Ansari, C Thomas, David Grangier, Michael Kirchhof, Oncel Tuzel - The Potential of CoT for Reasoning: A Closer Look at Trace Dynamics - 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Poster Session 1, Pavilion 4, #4708 - Gregor Bachmann, Yichen Jiang, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Moin Nabi - Revisiting the Scaling Properties of Downstream Metrics in Large Language Model Training - 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Poster Session 1, Pavilion 4, #5008 - Jakub Krajewski, Dan Busbridge, Amitis Shidani, Sam Wiseman, Jason Ramapuram - Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining - 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM, Poster Session 1, Pavilion 4, #5204 - Zitong Yang (Stanford University), Aonan Zhang, Hong Liu (Stanford University), Emmanuel Candès (Stanford University), Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford University), Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang - SelfReflect: Can LLMs Communicate Their Internal Answer Distribution? - 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #0312 - Michael Kirchhof, Luca Füger (Independent Researcher), Adam Golinski, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Arno Blaas, Seong Joon Oh (Tübingen AI Center), Sinead Williamson - Flow Matching with Semidiscrete Couplings - 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #0812 - Stephen Zhang (University of Melbourne), Seyed Alireza Mousavi Hosseini (University of Toronto), Michal Klein, Marco Cuturi - GenCtrl — A Formal Controllability Toolkit for Generative Models - 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #0922 - Emily Cheng (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University), Federico Danieli, Arno Blaas, Luca Zappella, Pau Rodriguez, Xavier Suau - Scaling Synthetic Task Generation for Agents via Exploration - 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1719 - Ram Ramrakhya (Georgia Institute of Technology), Harsh Agrawal, Anh Nguyen, Omar Attia, Bogdan Mazoure, Yuhao Yang, Zhe Gan, Andrew Szot, Alexander Toshev - Less Gaussians, Texture More: 4K Feed-Forward Textured Splatting - 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1801 - Yixing Lao (The University of Hong Kong), Xuyang Bai, Xiaoyang Wu, Arnold Yan, Zixin Luo, Tian Fang, Danny Nahmias, Yanghai Tsin, Shiwei Li, Hengshuang Zhao (The University of Hong Kong) - Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping - 3:15 PM - 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1820 - Wei Liu (HKUST), Ruochen Zhou (HKUST), Yiyun Deng…