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ICLR 2026 - Call for Workshops


Following the ICLR 2026 main conference, two days of in-person workshops on a variety of current topics will be held on April 26 and 27, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We invite researchers interested in chairing a workshop to submit proposals. Workshop organizers have several responsibilities, including coordinating workshop participation and content, publicizing and providing the program in a timely manner, and moderating the program throughout the workshop.

Goal of ICLR Workshops

Workshops provide an informal, cutting edge venue for discussion of works in progress and future directions. Good workshops have helped to crystallize common problems, explicitly contrast competing frameworks, and clarify essential questions for a subfield or application area. Workshops are a structured means of bringing together people with common interests to form communities. Good workshops should include some form of community building.

Each workshop is a single-day, in-person event, split into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time between the sessions for individual exchange. Workshop topics should include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • unsupervised, semi-supervised, and supervised representation learning
  • representation learning for planning and reinforcement learning
  • representation learning for computer vision and natural language processing
  • metric learning and kernel learning
  • sparse coding and dimensionality expansion
  • hierarchical models
  • optimization for representation learning
  • learning representations of outputs or states
  • optimal transport
  • theoretical issues in deep learning
  • societal considerations of representation learning including fairness, safety, privacy, and interpretability, and explainability
  • visualization or interpretation of learned representations
  • implementation issues, parallelization, software platforms, hardware
  • climate, sustainability
  • applications in audio, speech, robotics, neuroscience, biology, or any other field

Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found in last year's online schedule (blog.iclr.cc/2025/02/03/workshops-at-iclr-2025/).

Workshop schedules should encourage lively debates, stimulate the production of new ideas and foster discussion of important issues. Workshop organizers are recommended to follow the Policies on Large Language Model Usage at ICLR 2026. For workshops open to AI serving as primary authors and/or reviewers of workshop papers, please claim the role of AI participation in the workshop proposal.

Every group considering submitting a workshop proposal should read the Guidance for ICLR Workshop Proposals 2026, which describes important considerations for hosting workshops, includes templates of previous successful proposals, details the selection criteria and process, describes what is considered a conflict of interest, and includes other frequently asked questions.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should be submitted through an application on OpenReview at: openreview.net/group?id=ICLR.cc/2026/Workshop_Proposals

Note that all proposal organizers are required to have an OpenReview profile. Please create an OpenReview Profile at least two weeks before the workshop
application deadline on 10 October 2025.

Important dates for workshop organizers

  • Workshop Application Open : 8 September 2025
  • Workshop Application Deadline : 10 October 2025, 11.59pm AoE
  • Workshop Acceptance Notification : 1 December 2025
  • Suggested Submission Date for Workshop Contributions: 30 January 2026
  • Mandatory Accepted Paper Notification Date*: 1 March 2026, 11.59pm AoE
    • This is the deadline for informing authors who submitted to your workshop about your acceptance decisions, and for notifying us by making all accepted papers publicly available on OpenReview. This date is especially important for workshop contributors who will apply for financial assistance from ICLR.
  • Import Workshop Program and Accepted Papers to iclr.cc: 11 March 2026, 11.59pm AoE

The criteria and process by which proposals will be assessed are described in the Guidance for ICLR Workshop Proposals 2026.

Organizer Support

The organizers of each accepted workshop can name four individuals to receive a full-conference complimentary registration.

 

ICLR 2026 Workshop Chairs

Andre Araujo (Google DeepMind)
Adji Bousso Dieng (Princeton University)
Nezihe Merve Gürel (TU Delft)
Yanan Sui (Tsinghua University)

Contact

Email: workshop-chairs@iclr.cc