Workshop Day

All workshops, tutorials, and community events will take place on Monday, June 29.

Workshops

Second Workshop on the Foundations of Post-training

Details and call for participation: https://fopt-workshop.github.io/

Organizers: Nived Rajaraman, Ayush Sekhari, Bingbin Liu, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Dylan Foster

Workshop on Learning in an Agentic World: Foundations and Challenges

Details and call for participation: https://dravy.ttic.edu/law2026.html

Organizers: Hedyeh Beyhaghi, Avrim Blum, Han Shao, Dravyansh Sharma

Tutorials

Algorithmic Landscape of Sampling in Modern Generative Models

Organizers: Sitan Chen, Noah Golowich, Dhruv Rohatgi, Abishek Shetty

Bridging Computational and Statistical Theories of Machine Learning

Details: https://shivaniagarwal.net/colt-2026-tutorial/

Organizers: Shivani Agarwal

Computational Foundations of Reliable Learning

Organizers: Adam R. Klivans, Konstantinos Stavropoulos, Arsen Vasilyan

Equivalences between lower bounds frameworks: Low-degree polynomials and physics predictions

Organizers: Ilias Zadik

Foundations of Learning Reasoning Models

Organizers: Nived Rajaraman, Nirmit Joshi, Nati Srebro

Learning-Augmented Algorithms: Leveraging Data for Performance with Theoretical Guarantees

Details: https://dravy.ttic.edu/learning-augmented-colt26.html

Organizers: Maryam Aliakbarpour, Dravyansh Sharma, Sandeep Silwal

Community Events

A Machine Learning Theory Retrospective

Organizers: Gautam Kamath, Jess Sorrell, Ira Globus-Harris, Bingbin Liu