The Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning, or ICML 2026, will be held July 6-11 in Seoul, South Korea. Below is a roundup of work from Princeton researchers that will be showcased at the conference.
Oral Presentation:
Motion Attribution for Video Generation
Authors: Xindi Wu, Despoina Paschalidou, Jun Gao, Antonio Torralba, Laura Leal-Taixé, Olga Russakovsky, Sanja Fidler, Jonathan Lorraine
Links: Paper, Project Website
Oral Presentation:
On Computation and Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Raj Ghugare, Michał Bortkiewicz, Alicja Ziarko, Benjamin Eysenbach
Links: Paper
Oral Presentation:
Position: There are futures that benchmark-driven AI cannot see
Authors: Sobhan Lotfi, Ava Iranmanesh, Lachin Naghashyar, Ali Shirali, Fateme Haredasht, Sanmi Koyejo, Phil Torr, Yong Suk Lee, Fazl Barez, Joel Lehman, Peter Norvig, Arvind Narayanan
Links: Paper
Spotlight Poster:
AlgoVeri: An Aligned Benchmark for Verified Code Generation on Classical Algorithms
Authors: Haoyu Zhao, Ziran Yang, Jiawei Li, Deyuan Mike He, Zenan Li, Chi Jin, Venugopal Veeravalli, Aarti Gupta, Sanjeev Arora
Links: Paper, Project Page
Spotlight Poster:
Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems
Authors: Jiaru Zou, Xiyuan Yang, Ruizhong Qiu, Gaotang Li, Katherine Tieu, Pan Lu, Ke Shen, Hanghang Tong, Yejin Choi, Jingrui He, James Zou, Mengdi Wang, Ling Yang
Links: Paper, Project Page
Spotlight Poster:
Rapid Poison: Practical Poisoning Attacks Against the Rapid Response Framework
Authors: David Huang, Jaewon Chang, Avidan Shah, Prateek Mittal, Chawin Sitawarin
Links: Paper
Adaptively Robust Resettable Streaming
Authors: Edith Cohen, Elena Gribelyuk, Jelani Nelson, Uri Stemmer
Links: Paper
Position: Agent Should Invoke External Tools ONLY When Epistemically Necessary
Authors: Hongru Wang, Cheng Qian, Manling Li, Jiahao Qiu, Boyang XUE, Mengdi Wang, Heng Ji, Amos Storkey, Kam-Fai Wong
Links: Paper
AutoTool: Dynamic Tool Selection and Integration for Agentic Reasoning
Authors: Jiaru Zou, Ling Yang, Yunzhe Qi, Sirui Chen, Mengting Ai, Ke Shen, Jingrui He, Mengdi Wang
Links: Paper, Project Page
Batched First-Order Methods for Parallel LP Solving in MIP
Authors: Nicolas Blin, Stefano Gualandi, Christopher Maes, Andrea Lodi, Bartolomeo Stellato
Links: Paper
Position: The Case for Theory-Level Autoformalization
Authors: Marcus Min, Mike He, Zhaoyu Li, Zixuan Yi, Sharad Malik, Aarti Gupta, Xujie Si, Osbert Bastani
Links: Project Page
CodeClash: Benchmarking Goal-Oriented Software Engineering
Authors: John Yang, Kilian Lieret, Joyce Yang, Carlos Jimenez, Muhtasham Oblokulov, Aryan Siddiqui, Ofir Press, Ludwig Schmidt, Diyi Yang
Links: Paper
Conformal Prediction for Early Stopping in Mixed Integer Optimization
Authors: Stefan Clarke, Bartolomeo Stellato
Links: Paper
Consistent Zero-Shot Imitation with Contrastive Goal Inference
Authors: Kathryn Wantlin, Chongyi Zheng, Benjamin Eysenbach
Links: Paper
Coupled Training with Privileged Features and Unlabeled Data
Authors: Jiahao Shi, Omar Hagrass, Jason Klusowski
Links: Paper
DevEvol: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Continuous Software Evolution
Authors: Gangda Deng, Zhaoling Chen, Zhongming Yu, Haoyang Fan, Yuhong Liu, Yuxin Yang, Dhruv Parikh, Rajgopal Kannan, Le Cong, Mengdi Wang, Qian Zhang, Viktor Prasanna, Robert Tang, Xingyao Wang
Links: Paper
Position: Digital Agents Require Unified Agent-Native Environments
Authors: Yiran Wu, Jiale Liu, Jieyu Zhang, Yaolun Zhang, Shilong Liu, Chi Wang, Mengdi Wang, Huazheng Wang, Qingyun Wu
Links: Paper
f-Divergence Regularized RLHF: Two Tales of Sampling and Unified Analyses
Authors: Di Wu, Chengshuai Shi, Jing Yang, Cong Shen
Links: Paper
Finding the Minimal Parameter Budget for Implicit Reasoning: A Data Complexity Driven Scaling Law for Language Models
Authors: Xinyi Wang, Shawn Tan, Shenbo Xu, Mingyu Jin, William Wang, Rameswar Panda, Yikang Shen
Links: Paper
FLARE-AI: Flaw Reporting for AI
Authors: Shayne Longpre, Elaine Zhu, Carson Ezell, Avijit Ghosh, Sean McGregor, Kevin Paeth, Kevin Klyman, Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Ruth Elisabeth Appel, Gregory Strom, Lauren McIlvenny, Mark Jaycox, Peter Slattery, Nathan Butters, Arvind Narayanan, Percy Liang, Alex Pentland
Links: Paper
FrontierCS: Evolving Challenges for Evolving Intelligence
Authors: Qiuyang Mang, Wenhao Chai, Zhifei Li, Huanzhi Mao, Shang Zhou, Alexander Du, Hanchen Li, Shu Liu, Edwin Chen, Yichuan Wang, Xieting Chu, Zerui Cheng, Yuan Xu, Tian Xia, Zirui Wang, Tianneng Shi, Jianzhu Yao, Yilong Zhao, Qizheng Zhang, Charlie Ruan, Zeyu Shen, Kaiyuan Liu, Zhaoyang Hong, Alex Gu, Ziyi Zhang, Runyuan He, Dong Xing, Zerui Li, Zirong Zeng, Yige Jiang, Lufeng Cheng, Ziyi Zhao, Youran Sun, Suyang Zhong, Junpeng Wang, Donglin Li, Wenyuan Huang, Jialiang Gu, Wesley Zheng, Wangmeiyu Zhang, Ruyi Ji, Xuechang Tu, Zihan Zheng, Zhaozi Wang, Zexing Chen, Jingbang Chen, Jialu Zhang, Aleksandra Korolova, Peter Henderson, Pramod Viswanath, Vijay Ganesh, Saining Xie, Zhuang Liu, Dawn Song, Sewon Min, Ion Stoica, Joseph E Gonzalez, Jingbo Shang, Alvin Cheung
Links: Paper, Project Page
GASS: Geometry-Aware Spherical Sampling for Disentangled Diversity Enhancement in Text-to-Image Generation
Authors: Ye Zhu, Kaleb Newman, Johannes Lutzeyer, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal, Olga Russakovsky
Links: Paper
Generalization Bounds for Discrete Diffusion: Statistical Advantage of Masking
Authors: Zixuan Zhang, Hengyu Fu, Zhuoran Yang, Mengdi Wang, Tuo Zhao, Minshuo Chen
Links: Paper
The Geometry of Representational Failures in Vision Language Models
Authors: Daniele Savietto, Declan Campbell, André Panisson, Marco Nurisso, Giovanni Petri, Jonathan Cohen, Alan Perotti
Links: Paper
Greedy Coordinate Diffusion: Effective and Semantically Coherent Adversarial Attacks via Diffusion Guidance
Authors: Bohdan Turbal, Blossom Metevier, Max Springer, Aleksandra Korolova
Links: Paper
Hyperparameter Transfer with Mixture-of-Expert Layers
Authors: Tianze Jiang, Blake Bordelon, Cengiz Pehlevan, Boris Hanin
Links: Paper
A Hypertoroidal Covering for Perfect Color Equivariance
Authors: Yulong Yang, Zhikun Xu, Yaojun Li, Christine Allen-Blanchette
Links: Paper
LatentChem: From Textual CoT to Latent Thinking in Chemical Reasoning
Authors: Xinwu Ye, Yicheng Mao, Jia Zhang, Yimeng (Yoyo) Liu, Hao Li, Fang Wu, Zhiwei Li, Yuxuan Liao, Zehong Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, Zhenfei Yin, Li Yuan, Phil Torr, Huan Sun, Xiangxiang Zeng, Mengdi Wang, Le Cong, Shenghua Gao, Robert Tang
Links: Paper, Project Page
Learning to Perceive the World Through Control: Empowerment-Based Representation Learning
Authors: Mahsa Bastankhah, Sophie Broderick, Benjamin Eysenbach
Links: Paper
Less Is More: Fast and Accurate Reasoning with Cross-Head Unified Sparse Attention
Authors: Lijie Yang, Zhihao Zhang, Arti Jain, Shijie Cao, Baihong Yuan, Yiwei Chen, Zhihao Jia, Ravi Netravali
Links: Paper, Project Page
Lower Bounds for Frank-Wolfe on Strongly Convex Sets
Authors: Jannis Halbey, Daniel Deza, Max Zimmer, Christophe Roux, Bartolomeo Stellato, Sebastian Pokutta
Links: Paper
MEMO: Memory-Augmented Model Context Optimization for Robust Multi-Turn Multi-Agent LLM Games
Authors: Yunfei Xie, Kevin Wang, Bobby Cheng, Jianzhu Yao, Zhizhou Sha, Alexander Duffy, Yihan Xi, Hongyuan Mei, Cheston Tan, Chen Wei, Pramod Viswanath, Zhangyang “Atlas” Wang
Links: Paper
On Path to Multimodal Historical Reasoning: HistBench and HistAgent
Authors: Jiahao Qiu, Fulian Xiao, Yimin Wang, Yuchen Mao, Yijia Chen, Xinzhe Juan, Siran Wang, Xuan Qi, Tongcheng Zhang, Zixin Yao, Jiacheng Guo, Yifu Lu, Charles Argon, Jundi Cui, Daixin Chen, Junran Zhou, Shuyao Zhou, Zhanpeng Zhou, Ling Yang, Shilong Liu, Hongru Wang, Kaixuan Huang, Xun Jiang, Xi Gao, Mengdi Wang
Links: Paper
Opportunistic Expert Activation: Batch-Aware Expert Routing for Faster Decode Without Retraining
Authors: Costin-Andrei Oncescu, Qingyang Wu, Wai Tong Chung, Tsai-chuan Wu, Bryan Gopal, Junxiong Wang, Tri Dao, Ben Athiwaratkun
Links: Paper
Position: Multiplicity is an Inevitable and Inherent Challenge in Multimodal Learning
Authors: Sanghyuk Chun, Olga Russakovsky
Links: Paper
The Power of Power Law: Asymmetry Enables Compositional Reasoning
Authors: Zixuan Wang, Xingyu Dang, Jason Lee, Kaifeng Lyu
Links: Paper
Prioritize the Process, Not Just the Outcome: Rewarding Latent Thought Trajectories Improves Reasoning in Looped Language Models
Authors: Jonathan Williams, Esin Tureci, Olga Russakovsky
Links: Paper, Project Page
Retaining by Doing: The Role of On-Policy Data in Mitigating Forgetting
Authors: Howard Chen, Noam Razin, Karthik Narasimhan, Danqi Chen
Links: Paper
Rethinking Thinking Tokens: LLMs as Improvement Operators
Authors: Lovish Madaan, Aniket Didolkar, Suchin Gururangan, John Quan, Ruan Silva, Russ Salakhutdinov, Manzil Zaheer, Sanjeev Arora, Anirudh Goyal
Links: Paper
RLAnything: Forge Environment, Policy, and Reward Model in Completely Dynamic RL System
Authors: Yinjie Wang, Tianbao Xie, Ke Shen, Mengdi Wang, Ling Yang
Links: Paper, Project Page
SMILE: Extended Deep Submodular Function-Based Instruction and In-context Learning Demonstration Selection
Authors: Zihan Chen, Chengshuai Shi, Song Wang, Jundong Li, Cong Shen
Links: Paper
Statistical-Computational Trade-offs for Recursive Adaptive Partitioning Estimators
Authors: Yan Shuo Tan, Jason Klusowski, Krishnakumar Balasubramanian
Links: Paper
SWE-fficiency: Can Language Models Optimize Real-World Repositories on Real Workloads?
Authors: Jeffrey Ma, Milad Hashemi, Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Kevin Swersky, Ofir Press, Enhui Li, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan
Links: Paper, Project Page
τ-Knowledge: Evaluating Conversational Agents over Unstructured Knowledge
Authors: Quan Shi, Alexandra Zytek, Pedram Razavi, Karthik Narasimhan, Victor Barres
Links: Paper, Project Page
t-Voice: Benchmarking Full-Duplex Voice Agents on Real-World Domains
Authors: Soham Ray, Keshav Dhandhania, Victor Barres, Karthik Narasimhan
Links: Paper
Temporal Context Reinstatement Drives Episodic-Like Order Memory in Long-Context Language Models
Authors: Mathis Pink, Vy Vo, Qinyuan Wu, Jianing Mu, Javier Turek, Uri Hasson, Kenneth Norman, Sebastian Michelmann, Alexander Huth, Mariya Toneva
Topology-Preserving Neural Operator Learning via Hodge Decomposition
Authors: Dongzhe Zheng, Tao Zhong, Christine Allen-Blanchette
Links: Paper, Project Page
Towards a Science of AI Agent Reliability
Authors: Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, Peter Kirgis, Kangheng Liu, Saiteja Utpala, Arvind Narayanan
Links: Paper
Training LLM Agents to Empower Humans
Authors: Evan Ellis, Vivek Myers, Jens Tuyls, Sergey Levine, Anca Dragan, Benjamin Eysenbach
Links: Paper
TritonGym: A Benchmark for Agentic LLM Workflows in Triton GPU Code Generation
Authors: Yue Guan, Yichen Lin, Xu Zhao, Jianzhu Yao, Xinwei Qiang, Zhongkai Yu, Pramod Viswanath, Yufei Ding, Adnan Aziz
Links: Paper, Project Page
Universal Learning of Nonlinear Dynamics
Authors: Evan Dogariu, Anand Brahmbhatt, Elad Hazan
Links: Paper