"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

ICLR 2027 has authorship quotas: - No more than 20 submissions per author - No more than 1 submission where no author has a paper previously accepted to a major ML conference From iclr.cc/Conferences/...

We were the runner up for the Caspar Bowden PETS award. This recognized our work on differentially private fine tuning of language models. It was a big effort by a sizeable group across NA, Europe, and Asia. Thanks to the committee for the recognition.

I've been referring people to this perspective every day for the last couple weeks. As we work together to determine new norms, we should not tolerate pure AI or otherwise bad writing. Tell your friends if they fall into this trap.

Aaron Roth@aaroth.bsky.social · last mo.

AI is getting good at math. What are our jobs as researchers now that we have proof machines? The raw proofs that come from LLMs are difficult to understand, even if correct. So its now easy to quickly write many badly written papers that nevertheless contain correct proofs of interesting theorems.

Cheers from Calgary, where I am for #PETS2026! The general chairs have done a phenomenal job, you can see here they have "pets" (weighted helium balloons) you can adopt and take for a walk.

On top of our Call for Papers, #SaTML2027 has a Call for Competitions and a Call for Workshops (first time ever!!). Dates (easy to remember, same for both) Deadline: August 28, 2026 Notifications: September 18, 2026 Topics can be anything in trustworthy and secure ML!

Look, at this point I'm more impressed if your math result *doesn't* use AI.

Radical proposal: if you want to submit your work for review by other humans, it must first be publicly and permanently posted somewhere with your name on it.

When I was a junior grad student, it was a huge honour to be asked to review. I spent a week reading every detail of a paper. Still in theory, you'll get senior faculty giving thoughtful reviews for STOC/FOCS. Sadly, ML requires holding people hostage until they do their reviews😢

That's a wrap! We hope you had a fun, productive, and idea-filled Gangnam-styled #ICML2026! It's been a pleasure posting with you -- stay tuned for more content. We wish you a safe trip home, and see you next year!

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incredibly honored that our paper on Scheduler Augmentation won this year's _Best Paper Award_ at SPAA! This is joint work with my students Darshan Dinesh Kumar and Seong-Heon Jung. Excellent work Darshan and Seong-Heon!! Check out the talk (starts at ~1hr): rhul.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

Workshops! Workshops! Workshops! What are you going to on the last day of #icml2026?

We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to follow (and share with your ML friends!) if you want to see more updates from ICML!

Marc Lanctot@sharky6000.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wow, awesome! Massive thank you to the comms & PR team @icmlconf.bsky.social 🤩 ✅️ Multiple update posts per day ✅️ Posts with photos!! 📷 ✅️ Great use of hash tags #icml2026 ✅️ Schedule and QR links at the local mall ✅️ Setting the gold standard for academic Bluesky 👍 🙏

Computer science is known for its castles: Dagstuhl and Bertinoro, notably. Came to pitch Charles on adding Windsor to the mix, but he dodged me with the chopper...

Wrapping up day one of workshops at #icml2026! See you for day 2!

Arvind Narayanan (@randomwalker.bsky.social) brings us a talk “What will be left for us to work on?” At #icml2026

Join us for this morning’s amazing plenary talk by @verenarieser.bsky.social: “From Behavioral Guardrails to Principled Agency”

From ICML to ICALP -- cheers from Royal Holloway, University of London!

Sham Kakade (@shamkakade.bsky.social) gave an incredible talk this morning to a packed house! #icml2026

Aviv Regev is delivering one of the keynote talks this year at #icml2026 on Lab in the Loop for drug research and discovery!

Congrats to the 2026 test of time award winners! #icml2026

Closed out my trip to #ICML2026 with an awesome event with @kyunghyuncho.bsky.social and @aliceatkaist.bsky.social hosted by kaist and upstage. Sadly I only had two days in Seoul but I hope to be back soon for longer. Next, on to #ICALP2026 in London!

The PC Chairs are presenting the welcome remarks. #ICML2026 has over 20,000 in-person attendees!

Closing out the technical program for the day, we have Susan Athey (@susanathey.bsky.social) giving an invited talk on causal inference and transformer models.

The main conference of #ICML2026 begins with an invited talk by Pascale Fung: "Towards AI Agents In the Real World"

Tutorials and the expo are done: on to day one of the main conference! Highlights today are the plenary talks by Pascale Fung (starting now!) and Susan Athey (4 PM). The latter is followed by opening remarks and the welcome reception.

Super fun to be on a career advice panel at the KAIST ICML event! With so many lovely folks (Hsuan-Tien Lin, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Yoon Kim, @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, moderated by @hyunwoo-kim.bsky.social). TY @aliceatkaist.bsky.social & others for organizing! Only 1 more day in Seoul🥲

If you're at #ICML2026, come meet me, Nihar, and Laurent tomorrow at 11 AM! Chat about TMLR or peer review more generally.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research@tmlrorg.bsky.social · last mo.

Some of the TMLR Editors in Chief are doing a meet-and-greet tomorrow at #ICML2026! July 7 at 11 AM in The Platz Come and: - discuss new policies (submission quotas, AI reviewer) - pick up stickers if you're an AE, expert reviewer, etc. - just hang out!

Some of the TMLR Editors in Chief are doing a meet-and-greet tomorrow at #ICML2026! July 7 at 11 AM in The Platz Come and: - discuss new policies (submission quotas, AI reviewer) - pick up stickers if you're an AE, expert reviewer, etc. - just hang out!

Be sure to check out the picturesque Starfield Library! Also located within the Coex complex.