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COLM 2026 announces call for papers for its workshop on the scientific understanding of foundation models

The San Francisco event's submission deadline is June 23.

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Hanlin Zhang@_hanlin_zhang_

Announcing our COLM 2026 workshop: Scientific Understanding of Foundation Models:

we invite submissions on training dynamics, scaling laws, data and optimization, post-training, reward modeling, evaluation science, reliability, reproducibility, and theoretical understanding of foundation models.

We especially welcome rigorous empirical studies, theory-grounded work, negative results, reproductions, and papers that bridge theory and practice for contributing to this goal.

📍 In person at COLM 2026, San Francisco 🗓️ Submission deadline: June 23, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE 🌐 https://lnkd.in/eEU5EVt4 🧑‍🏫 Speakers: @SuryaGanguli, @JikaiJin2002, @zhiyuanli_, @waterluffy, @valentina__py, @lschmidt3, @MohammadShoeybi, @andrewgwils.

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Surya Ganguli@SuryaGanguli

Looking forward to speaking at this COLM workshop on scientific understanding for foundation models - should be a fun workshop - submissions open now!

Hanlin Zhang@_hanlin_zhang_

Announcing our COLM 2026 workshop: Scientific Understanding of Foundation Models:

We especially welcome rigorous empirical studies, theory-grounded work, negative results, reproductions, and papers that bridge theory and practice for contributing to this goal.

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Announcing our COLM 2026 workshop: Scientific Understanding of Foundation Models:

We especially welcome rigorous empirical studies, theory-grounded work, negative results, reproductions, and papers that bridge theory and practice for contributing to this goal.

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