Pre ICML @ London 2026

The goal of this meetup is to bring together students, researchers, and engineers from the greater London area to discuss machine learning research presented at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026. The event also provides an opportunity for researchers to promote their work and connect with local community members. The day will feature poster sessions and in-person presentations.

While this event is focused around ICML research, we welcome all posters that fit the ICML topics of interest.

9:00am - 9:30pm

Welcome & Registration

9:30am - 10:30am

Opening Remarks & Keynote Talk 1

10:30am - 11:30am

Student Spotlight Talks -Session A

Student Spotlight Talk 1 (10:30am; 15min). Abdelhamid Ezzerg. Robust Bayesian Optimization Under Unbounded Corruptions.
Student Spotlight Talk 2 (10:45am; 15min). Karolina Korgul. It's a TRAP! Task-Redirecting Agent Persuasion Benchmark for Web Agents.
Student Spotlight Talk 3 (11:00am; 15min). Gurjeet Jagwani. StAD: Stein Amortized Divergence for Fast Likelihoods for Diffusion or Flow.
Student Spotlight Talk 4 (11:15am; 15min). Jeffrey Wong. A3: an Analytical Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Attention.

30 minute break.

12:00am - 1.00pm

Keynote Talk 2

Lunch.

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Keynote Talk 3.

15 minute break.

3:15pm - 4:15pm

Student Spotlight Talks -Session B

Student Spotlight Talk 5 (3:15pm; 15min). Jianan Chen. Exploring High-Density DOT for Three-dimensional Imaging of Mental State using CNN and Transformer Models.
Student Spotlight Talk 6 (3:30pm; 15min). Hen Davidov. Knowing When to Quit: A Principled Framework for Dynamic Abstention in LLM Reasoning.
Student Spotlight Talk 7 (3:45pm; 15min). Sinan Deger. Multimodal Forward Calibration of Diffusion-based Generative Models.
Student Spotlight Talk 8 (4:00pm; 15min). Shyam Sundhar Ramesh. Multi-Task GRPO: Reliable LLM Reasoning Across Tasks.