Call For Papers

Formatting Instructions: All submissions must be in PDF format and should use the ICLR 2025 LaTeX style file. The references and supplementary materials should be included in the same PDF as the main paper. Submissions to the Tiny Papers track should be a maximum of 2 pages, while for all other tracks, they should be 4-8 pages. All submissions can have unlimited references and appendices. Submissions that violate the ICLR style (e.g., by decreasing margins or font sizes) or page limits may be rejected without further review.

Double-Blind Reviewing: The reviewing process will be double-blind. All submissions must be anonymized. Any submissions that include identifying information, such as author names, author affiliations, or acknowledgements, may be rejected without further review.

Dual-Submission Policy: We welcome ongoing and unpublished work, but will also accept papers that are under review at any venue at the time of submission. 

Non-Archival: All submissions are non-archival and the workshop will not have official proceedings. Workshop submissions can be subsequently or concurrently submitted to other venues. 

Goals: The goal of the Research Papers track is to highlight all original research work in the field of sampling. Some examples of the research topics include, but aren't limited to:

• Bayesian posterior inference/inverse problem.

• Amortized sampling from Botlzmann densities.

• Sampling from generative models (diffusion model and LLMs) weighted by target density: i.e. fine-tuning, inference-time alignment, etc.

• Applications: e.g. molecular dynamics simulations, statistical physics, etc.

Instructions: Submissions can be 4-8 pages, with unlimited pages for references and supplementary materials. Submissions should use the ICLR 2025 template. We encourage submissions of works in progress, as well as works that have been or will be submitted to other venues, such as peer-reviewed conferences and journals. We consider longer submissions to be more finished work and will ask the reviewers to apply higher standards to them. 

Goals: The goal of the Challenges and Reflections track is to explore setbacks, unexpected outcomes, and the valuable lessons learned from methods that didn’t achieve their intended goals. Some examples of the research topics include, but aren't limited to:

• Ideas and methods that didn't make a paper but discussing the methodology and the results can provide valuable insights for future researchers. 

• Challenges and open problems in the field. We encourage the researchers to discuss 1. Why the current state-of-the-art research fails to address those challenges and 2. What are some of the directions that the researchers believe the community must focus on and pursue to overcome those challenges. 

Instructions: Submissions can be 4-8 pages, with unlimited pages for references and supplementary materials. Submissions should use the ICLR 2025 template. We encourage submissions of works in progress, as well as works that have been or will be submitted to other venues, such as peer-reviewed conferences and journals. We consider longer submissions to be more finished work and will ask the reviewers to apply higher standards to them. 

Goals: The goal of the Benchmarks and Datasets track is to encourage submissions of papers which highlight a dataset, tools or benchmarks that can be disseminated to the community during the workshop. 

Instructions: Submissions can be 4-8 pages, with unlimited pages for references and supplementary materials. Submissions should use the ICLR 2025 template. We encourage submissions of works in progress, as well as works that have been or will be submitted to other venues, such as peer-reviewed conferences and journals. We consider longer submissions to be more finished work and will ask the reviewers to apply higher standards to them. 

Goals: For theTiny papers track we welcome all submissions of short papers. This track is designed to lower the barrier of entry and encourage the submission of late-breaking developments which can be promoted at this workshop. Some examples of the papers that can submitted to this track include, but aren't limited to:

• An implementation and evaluation of an unpublished but simple idea.

• A modest but self-contained theoretical result.

• A fresh perspective on an existing publication.

Instructions: Submissions can be a maximum of 2 pages, with unlimited pages for references and supplementary materials. Submissions should use the ICLR 2025 template.