ICLR 2026 — Highlights

14th International Conference on Learning Representations Singapore • Apr 24–28, 2026

5,355 papers accepted (27.4% — 19,525 submissions) Source: ICLR 2026 Blog

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🏆 Outstanding Paper Awards

Outstanding Papers

1. Transformers are Inherently Succinct — Bergsträßer, Cotterell, Lin
2. LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation — Laban, Hayashi, Zhou, Neville

Honorable Mention

• The Polar Express: Optimal Matrix Sign Methods — Amsel, Persson, Musco, Gower

Test of Time Awards

• DCGAN — Radford, Metz, Chintala
• DDPG / Continuous Control — Lillicrap et al.

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Keynote Speakers

• Maja Matarić
• Max Welling
• Percy Liang
• Katherine Bouman
• Karen Adolph
• Pablo Arbeláez

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Topics

#	Topic	Papers	Orals
	Agents & Tool Use	426	0
	Audio & Speech	99	0
	Computer Vision	816	0
	Data-centric & Curation	358	0
	Diffusion Models & Generative AI	672	0
	Efficiency & Compression	610	0
	Graph Neural Networks	242	0
	Graphs & Combinatorial	255	0
	Graphs & Structured Data	110	0
	Interpretability & Mechanistic Interpretability	177	0
	LLMs & Foundation Models	1515	0
	Medical & Healthcare	108	0
	Multi-modal & Vision-Language	390	0
	Natural Language Processing	59	0
	Optimization for ML	45	0
	Optimization & Training Methods	406	0
	Other / Unclassified	1101	0
	Reinforcement Learning	657	0
	Robotics & Control	229	0
	Theory & Deep Learning Theory	256	0
	Trust & Safety	442	0

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