ICML 2026 index
A classified index map of ICML 2026 — talks and papers with links to code and keywords. Deep write-ups are added over time and linked from here.
The index map for ICML 2026 (Seoul · COEX · July 6–11). Each row links out to arXiv / code and carries keywords + a topic. Deep reading notes are written for selected entries and linked in the Post column; the running day-by-day archive lives in the ICML 2026 — live archive post.
Invited talks
| Speaker | Affiliation | Talk | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pascale Fung | HKUST; Director, CAiRE | TBA | agentic-ai |
| Susan Athey | Stanford GSB | Causal Inference with Transformer Models Tue Jul 7, 16:00 KST, Hall C | causal-inference |
| Sham M. Kakade | Harvard; Kempner Institute | TBA | ml-theory |
| Aviv Regev | Genentech (EVP, Research & Early Development) | TBA | computational-biology |
| Verena Rieser | Google DeepMind | TBA | nlp-dialogue |
| Arvind Narayanan | Princeton; Director, CITP | TBA | ai-policy |
Papers
robotics-vla
| Paper | Authors | Links | Keywords | Post |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments | Qwen Team | arXiv · code | vla · dit-decoder · flow-matching · embodiment-aware · cross-embodiment | note |
| Spatial Memory for Out-of-Vision Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action | Pengteng Li, Weiyu Guo, He Zhang, et al. | vla · spatial-memory · out-of-vision · manipulation | — | |
How this grows. New entries are appended to _data/icml2026.yml (the index), classified by topic. The full accepted-paper list is pulled in batches from PMLR / OpenReview. A selected entry graduates into a full reading note (the post: link) — the index stays the map; the posts are the territory.