We plan to host a mentoring program at the ICML 2026 Workshop on “Combining Theory and Benchmarks: Towards a Virtuous Cycle to Understand and Guarantee Foundation Model Performance.” The program aims to pair mentors, including faculty members and PhD-holding researchers, with mentees, primarily junior PhD students, master’s students, undergraduates, and high school students, to share experiences and receive guidance. Mentors are expected to have lunch with their assigned mentees and attend their poster sessions to provide feedback. Free lunch will be provided.

If interested, please complete the form linked below by June 25. Participants will be notified by email around the end of June. Priority will be given to authors of accepted papers, faculty mentors, students from underrepresented groups, and junior students. We are thankful to our Workshop Sponsors for making this mentoring program possible!