Apple is presenting new research at the annual International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), which takes place in person in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from April 23 to 27. We are proud to again sponsor the conference, which brings together the scientific and industrial research communities focused on deep learning. Below is an overview of Apple’s participation at ICLR 2026:
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Stop by the Apple booth #204 during exhibition hours: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM (Thursday, April 23 – Saturday, April 25). All times referenced in schedule are in BRT (local time).
Schedule
Thursday, April 23
- POSTER
- Synthetic Bootstrapped Pretraining
- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Poster Session 1, Pavilion 4, #5204
- Zitong Yang (Stanford University), Aonan Zhang, Hong Liu (Stanford University), Emmanuel Candès (Stanford University), Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford University), Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang
- POSTER
- Flow Matching with Semidiscrete Couplings
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #0812
- Stephen Zhang (University of Melbourne), Seyed Alireza Mousavi Hosseini (University of Toronto), Michal Klein, Marco Cuturi
- POSTER
- Scaling Synthetic Task Generation for Agents via Exploration
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1719
- Ram Ramrakhya (Georgia Institute of Technology), Harsh Agrawal, Anh Nguyen, Omar Attia, Bogdan Mazoure, Yuhao Yang, Zhe Gan, Andrew Szot, Alexander Toshev
- POSTER
- Less Gaussians, Texture More: 4K Feed-Forward Textured Splatting
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1801
- Yixing Lao (The University of Hong Kong), Xuyang Bai, Xiaoyang Wu, Arnold Yan, Zixin Luo, Tian Fang, Danny Nahmias, Yanghai Tsin, Shiwei Li, Hengshuang Zhao (The University of Hong Kong)
- POSTER
- Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1820
- Wei Liu (HKUST), Ruochen Zhou (HKUST), Yiyun Deng (HKUST), Yuzhen Huang (HKUST), Jaunting Liu (HLUST), Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo), Yizhe Zhang, Junxian He (HKUST)
- POSTER
- MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1921
- Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan, Haotian Zhang, Haoshuo Huang, Bowen Zhang (Meta), Ashley Tong, Haoxuan You, Xianzhi Du, Zhe Gan, Hyunjik Kim, Chao Jia, Zhenbang Wang, Yinfei Yang, Mingfei Gao, Zi-Yi Dou, Wenze Hu, Chang Gao, Dongxu Li, Philipp Dufter, Zirui Wang, Guoli Yin, Zhengdong Zhang, Chen Chen, Yang Zhao, Ruoming Pang (Meta), Zhifeng Chen
- POSTER
- Learning to Reason for Hallucination Span Detection
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 3, #1924
- Hsuan Su, Ting-Yao Hu, Hema Koppula, Kundan Krishna, Hadi Pour Ansari, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Cem Koc, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Oncel Tuzel, Raviteja Vemulapalli
- POSTER
- Entropy-Preserving Reinforcement Learning
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 2, Pavilion 4, #4708
- Ben Lipkin (MIT), Aleksei Petrenko, Kevin Chen, Erik Wijmans, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Raja Giryes, Philipp Krähenbühl
Friday, April 24
- POSTER
- Sharp Monocular View Synthesis in Less Than a Second
- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Poster Session 3, Pavilion 4, #3207
- Lars Mescheder, Wei Dong, Shiwei Li, Xuyang Bai, Marcel Santos, Peiyun Hu, Bruno Lecouat, Mingmin Zhen, Amael Delaunoy, Tian Fang, Yanghai Tsin, Stephan Richter, Vladlen Koltun
- PRESENTATION, POSTER
- VLSU: Mapping the Limits of Joint Multimodal Understanding for AI Safety
- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Poster Session 3, Pavilion 4, #4104
- Shruti Palaskar, Leon Gatys, Mona Abdelrahman, Mar Jacobo, Larry Lindsey, Rutika Moharir, Gunnar Lund, Yang Xu, Navid Shiee, Jeffrey Bigham, Charlie Maalouf, Joseph Yitan Cheng
- POSTER
- LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning
- 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Poster Session 3, Pavilion 4, #4916
- Murray Kang (UCSD), Yizhe Zhang, Nikki Kuang (UCSD), Nicklas Majamaki (UCSD), Navdeep Jaitly, Yian Ma (UCSD), Lianhui Qin (UCSD)
- POSTER
- Completed Hyperparameter Transfer across Modules, Width, Depth, Batch and Duration
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 4, Pavilion 3, #0403
- Bruno Kacper Mlodozeniec (University of Cambridge), Pierre Ablin, Louis Béthune, Dan Busbridge, Michal Klein, Jason Ramapuram, Marco Cuturi
- POSTER
- Continuously Augmented Discrete Diffusion model for Categorical Generative Modeling
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 4, Pavilion 3, #0723
- Huangjie Zheng, Shansan Gong, Tianrong Chen, Ruixiang Zhang, Jiatao Gu, Mingyuan Zhou (University of Texas), Navdeep Jaitly, Yizhe Zhang
- POSTER
- Closing the Gap Between Text and Speech Understanding in LLMs
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 4, Pavilion 3, #1401
- Santiago Cuervo, Skyler Seto, Maureen de Seyssel, Richard Bai, Zijin Gu, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Navdeep Jaitly, Zak Aldeneh
- POSTER
- Adaptive Thinking: Large Language Models Know When to Think in Latent Space
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 4, Pavilion 3, #2009
- Pingzhi Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Bairu Hou (University of California, Santa Barbara), Yun Zhu, Yihao Feng, Ke Ye, Tao Lei, Zhifeng Chen, Tianlong Chen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Xianzhi Du
- POSTER
- BED-LLM: Intelligent Information Gathering with LLMs and Bayesian Experimental Design
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 4, Pavilion 4, #4412
- Deepro Choudhury (University of Oxford), Sinead Williamson, Michael Kirchhof, Adam Golinski, Yizhe Zhang, Ning Miao (City University of Hong Kong), Freddie Bickford Smith (University of Oxford), Tom Rainforth (University of Oxford)
Saturday, April 25
- POSTER
- Data-Centric Lessons To Improve Speech-Language Pretraining
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 6, Pavilion 3, #1418
- Vishaal Udandarao, Zhiyun Lu, Yongqiang Wang, Albin Madappally Jose, Fartash Faghri, Xuankai Chang, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Joshua P. Gardner
- POSTER
- Barriers for Learning in an Evolving World: Mathematical Understanding of Loss of Plasticity
- 3:15 PM – 5:45 PM, Poster Session 6, Pavilion 4, #4202
- Amir Joudaki (ETH Zurich), Giulia Lanzillotta (ETH Zurich), Mohammad Samragh Razlighi, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh Vahid, Thomas Hofmann (ETH Zurich), Mehrdad Farajtabar, Fartash Faghri
Sunday, April 26
- WORKSHOP
- Narrative of Time Across Scales (NoTS)
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Time Series in the Age of Large Models Workshop 2026, 205
- Wenrui Ma (University of Pennsylvania), Ran Liu, Ellen Zippi, Chris Sandino, Juri Minxha, Behrooz Mahasseni, Erdrin Azemi, Ali Moin, Eva Dyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday, April 27
- WORKSHOP
- Trading Depth for Memory: Robustifying LLMs against Cache Constraints
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, 3rd Workshop on Test-Time Updates (TTU): Putting Updates to the Test! 2026, 206
- Joao Monteiro, Anastasiia Filippova, David Grangier, Marco Cuturi
- WORKSHOP
- LaCy: What Small Language Models Can and Should Learn is Not Just a Question of Loss
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Workshop on Memory for LLM-Based Agentic Systems 2026, 205
- Szilvia Reka Ujvary, Michael Kirchhof, Louis Béthune, Marco Cuturi, Pierre Ablin, Joao Monteiro
Local LLM inference on Apple silicon with MLX
This demo will showcase on-device LLM inference on a MacBook Pro with M5 Max using MLX, Apple’s open-source array framework purpose-built for Apple silicon, running a quantized frontier coding model entirely locally within Xcode’s native development environment. The full stack — MLX, mlx-lm, and model weights — is open source, inviting the research community to build on and extend these methods independently.
SHARP
This demo shows SHARP running on a set of pre-recorded images or images captured directly by the user during the demo. Visitors will experience the fast process from selecting an image, processing it with SHARP, and viewing the generated 3D Gaussian point cloud on an iPad Pro with the M5 chip.
Both MLX and SHARP demos will be available at the Apple Booth during exhibition hours.
Carl Vondrick is the ICLR 2026 General Chair.
Alexander Toshev and Vladlen Koltun are Senior Area Chairs.
Carl Vondrick, Eugene Ndiaye, Fartash Faghri, Jiatao Gu, Joao Monteiro, Miguel Angel Bautista, Philipp Krähenbühl, Pierre Ablin, Shuangfei Zhai, and Yizhe Zhang, and Zhe Gan are Area Chairs.
Arno Blaas is a Workshop Co-Organizer, and Nicholas Apostoloff and Niv Sivakumar are Workshop Reviewers for “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better: Challenges in Applied Deep Learning (ICBINB) 2026”.
Shirley Zou is a Workshop Co-Organizer for “AI with Recursive Self-Improvement 2026”.
Adam Golinski, Anastasasiia Filippova, Andrew Silva, Andrew Szot, Arnav Kundu, Arno Blaas, Artem Sevastopolsky, Arwen Bradley, Barry-John Theobald, Chen Chen, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Devon Hjelm, Gregor Bachmann, Honor Chen, Luca Zappella, Manjot Bilkhu, Meng Cao, Michael Kirchhof, Miguel Sarabia, Mohamad Shahbazi, Nicholas Apostoloff, Nikhil Bhendawade, Nivedha Sivakumar, Noam Elata, Omar Attia, Parth Thakkar, Parshin Shojaee, Peter Grasch, Ping Wang, Ran Liu, Raviteja Vemulapalli, Richard Bai, Roy Xie, Vikramjit Mitra, Vimal Thilak, and Zijin Gu are Reviewers.
AuthorsSilin Gao**, Antoine Bosselut†, Samy Bengio, Emmanuel Abbe
AuthorsMing Gui†‡*, Johannes Schusterbauer†‡*, Timy Phan†‡, Felix Krause†‡, Josh Susskind, Miguel Angel Bautista, Björn Ommer†‡
Adaptive Thinking: Large Language Models Know When to Think in Latent Space
AuthorsDeepro Choudhury†, Sinead Williamson, Adam Goliński, Ning Miao‡, Freddie Bickford Smith†, Michael Kirchhof, Yizhe Zhang, Tom Rainforth†
AuthorsAmir Joudaki†, Giulia Lanzillotta†, Mohammad Samragh Razlighi, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Thomas Hofmann†, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Fartash Faghri
AuthorsSantiago Cuervo†, Skyler Seto, Maureen de Seyssel, Richard He Bai, Zijin Gu, Tatiana Likhomanenko, Navdeep Jaitly, Zakaria Aldeneh
AuthorsBruno Mlodozeniec†**, Pierre Ablin, Louis Béthune, Dan Busbridge, Michal Klein, Jason Ramapuram, Marco Cuturi
AuthorsAleksandr Dremov**†, David Grangier, Angelos Katharopoulos, Awni Hannun
AuthorsHuangjie Zheng, Shansan Gong‡**, Ruixiang Zhang, Tianrong Chen, Jiatao Gu,, Mingyuan Zhou†**, Navdeep Jaitly, Yizhe Zhang
AuthorsVishaal Udandarao†‡, Zhiyun Lu, Xuankai Chang, Yongqiang Wang, Violet Z. Yao, Albin Madapally Jose, Fartash Faghri, Josh Gardner, Chung-Cheng Chiu
AuthorsShansan Gong†**, Ruixiang Zhang, Huangjie Zheng, Jiatao Gu, Navdeep Jaitly, Lingpeng Kong†**, Yizhe Zhang
AuthorsRyan Hoque*, Peide Huang*, David J. Yoon*, Mouli Sivapurapu, Jian Zhang
AuthorsWenhui Cui†**, Christopher M. Sandino, Hadi Pouransar, Ran Liu, Juri Minxha, Ellen L. Zippi, Erdrin Azemi, Behrooz Mahasseni
AuthorsAleksei Petrenko‡, Ben Lipkin†‡**, Kevin Chen, Erik Wijmans, Marco Cusumano-Towner, Raja Giryes, Philipp Krähenbühl
AuthorsStephen Zhang**, Seyed Alireza Mousavi Hosseini**, Michal Klein, Marco Cuturi
AuthorsAmin Karimi Monsefi†‡, Nikhil Bhendawade, Manuel R. Ciosici, Dominic Culver, Yizhe Zhang, Irina Belousova
AuthorsEmily Cheng†, Carmen Amo Alonso‡, Federico Danieli, Arno Blaas, Luca Zappella, Pau Rodríguez, Xavier Suau
AuthorsSilvia Sapora**, Devon Hjelm, Alexander Toshev, Omar Attia, Bogdan Mazoure
AuthorsSumanth Varambally**†, Thomas Voice, Yanchao Sun, Zhifeng Chen, Rose Yu†, Ke Ye
LaDiR: Latent Diffusion Enhances LLMs for Text Reasoning
Murray Kang (UCSD), Yizhe Zhang, Nikki Kuang (UCSD), Nicklas Majamaki (UCSD), Navdeep Jaitly, Yian Ma (UCSD), Lianhui Qin (UCSD)
Learn to Reason Efficiently with Adaptive Length-based Reward Shaping
Wei Liu (HKUST), Ruochen Zhou (HKUST), Yiyun Deng (HKUST), Yuzhen Huang (HKUST), Jaunting Liu (HLUST), Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo), Yizhe Zhang, Junxian He (HKUST)
AuthorsShenao Zhang†**, Donghan Yu, Yihao Feng, Bowen Jin‡**, Zhaoran Wang†, John Peebles**, Zirui Wang
AuthorsHsuan Su†, Ting-Yao Hu, Hema Swetha Koppula, Kundan Krishna, Hadi Pouransari, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Cem Koc, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Oncel Tuzel, Raviteja Vemulapalli
AuthorsYixing Lao†**, Xuyang Bai, Xiaoyang Wu†, Nuoyuan Yan, Zixin Luo, Tian Fang, Jean-Daniel Nahmias, Yanghai Tsin, Shiwei Li, Hengshuang Zhao†
AuthorsJen-Hao Rick Chang‡, Xiaoming Zhao‡, Dorian Chan, Oncel Tuzel
AuthorsYanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan, Haotian Zhang, Haoshuo Huang, Bowen Zhang†**, Jialing Tong, Haoxuan You, Xianzhi Du, Zhe Gan, Hyunjik Kim, Chao Jia, Zhenbang Wang, Yinfei Yang, Mingfei Gao, Zi-Yi Dou, Wenze Hu, Chang Gao, Dongxu Li, Philipp Dufter, Zirui Wang, Guoli Yin, Zhengdong Zhang, Chen Chen, Yang Zhao, Ruoming Pang†**, Zhifeng Chen
AuthorsFartash Faghri*, Pavan Kumar Anasossalu Vasu*, Cem Koc, Vaishaal Shankar†, Alexander Toshev, Oncel Tuzel, Hadi Pouransari
AuthorsSarah Ball†, Greg Gluch‡, Shafi Goldwasser‡, Frauke Kreuter†§, Omer Reingold¶, Guy N. Rothblum
AuthorsFederico Danieli, Pau Rodriguez, Miguel Sarabia, Xavier Suau, Luca Zappella
AuthorsHadi Pouransari, David Grangier, C Thomas, Michael Kirchhof, Oncel Tuzel
AuthorsXianhang Li†, Chen Huang, Chun-Liang Li, Eran Malach, Josh Susskind, Vimal Thilak, Etai Littwin
AuthorsAlex Fang†**, Thomas Voice, Ruoming Pang**, Ludwig Schmidt†, Tom Gunter**
AuthorsJakub Krajewski**, Amitis Shidani, Dan Busbridge, Sam Wiseman, Jason Ramapuram
AuthorsMohammad Hossein Amani†, Aryo Lotfi†, Nicolas Mario Baldwin†, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Emmanuel Abbé*, Robert West*†
AuthorsRam Ramrakhya**, Andrew Szot, Omar Attia, Yuhao Yang, Anh Nguyen, Bogdan Mazoure, Zhe Gan, Harsh Agrawal, Alexander Toshev
AuthorsMichael Kirchhoff, Luca Füger†, Adam Goliński, Eeshan Gunesh Dhekane, Arno Blaas, Seong Joon Oh‡, Sinead Williamson
AuthorsAngie Boggust†, Donghao Ren, Yannick Assogba, Dominik Moritz, Arvind Satyanarayan†, Fred Hohman
AuthorsLars Mescheder, Wei Dong, Shiwei Li, Xuyang Bai, Marcel Santos, Peiyun Hu, Bruno Lecouat, Mingmin Zhen, Amaël Delaunoy, Tian Fang, Yanghai Tsin, Stephan R. Richter, Vladlen Koltun
AuthorsYuyang Wang, Jiarui Lu**, Navdeep Jaitly, Josh Susskind, Miguel Angel Bautista
AuthorsZitong Yang†‡, Aonan Zhang‡, Hong Liu†, Tatsunori Hashimoto†, Emmanuel Candès†, Chong Wang, Ruoming Pang
AuthorsGregor Bachmann, Yichen Jiang, Seyed Mohsen Moosavi Dezfooli, Moin Nabi
AuthorsEran Malach, Omid Saremi, Sinead Williamson, Arwen Bradley, Aryo Lotfi, Emmanuel Abbe, Josh Susskind, Etai Littwin
AuthorsPreetum Nakkiran, Arwen Bradley, Adam Goliński, Eugene Ndiaye, Michael Kirchhof, Sinead Williamson
AuthorsShruti Palaskar, Leon Gatys, Mona Abdelrahman, Mar Jacobo, Larry Lindsey, Rutika Moharir, Gunnar Lund, Yang Xu, Navid Shiee, Jeffrey Bigham, Charles Maalouf, Joseph Yitan Cheng
AuthorsJiayuan Ye, Vitaly Feldman, Kunal Talwar
AuthorsKundan Krishna, Joseph Y Cheng, Charles Maalouf, Leon A Gatys
AuthorsSzilvia Ujváry†**, Louis Béthune, Pierre Ablin, João Monteiro, Marco Cuturi, Michael Kirchhof
AuthorsBingbing Wen**, Sirajul Salekin, Feiyang Kang†, Lucy Lu Wang‡, Bill Howe‡, Javier Movellan, Manjot Bilkhu
Narrative of Time Across Scales (NoTS)
Wenrui Ma (University of Pennsylvania), Ran Liu, Ellen Zippi, Chris Sandino, Juri Minxha, Behrooz Mahasseni, Erdrin Azemi, Ali Moin, Eva Dyer (University of Pennsylvania)
AuthorsSkyler Seto, Pierre Ablin, Anastasiia Filippova, Jiayuan Ye†, Louis Béthune, Angelos Katharopoulos, David Grangier
AuthorsAlec Helbling†**, Shruti Palaskar, Kundan Krishna, Polo Chau†, Leon Gatys‡, Joseph Yitan Cheng‡
AuthorsLorenzo Noci**, Gregor Bachmann, Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli, Moin Nabi
Trading Depth for Memory: Robustifying LLMs against Cache Constraints
Joao Monteiro, Anastasiia Filippova, David Grangier, Marco Cuturi
