We thank everyone who prepared and submitted a workshop proposal to ICLR 2026. We were impressed by the quality of the proposals. This year, we received an unprecedented number of 135 valid submissions and were able to accept 40 proposals based on the number of available rooms in the conference venue. We particularly want to thank our team of reviewers.
Selection Process
Working within the workshop space allocation in Rio de Janeiro, the workshop chairsworked to balance multiple goals. Workshop organizers were provided with guidance criteria for proposals, including hard workshop requirements including COI management, participation limits, platforming contributed work, Tiny Paper track support, in-person planning, and LLM usage policy. Reviewers were asked to check these criteria. Each proposal received at least three reviews. All reviews and scores were checked by workshop chairs for fairness and errors. The high-ranking proposals were further evaluated on the softer selection criteria. In particular, workshop chairs aimed to ensure diversity – same topics, speakers, and organizers are not heavily recurring across multiple workshops. Final decisions and reviews were then released to authors. More details will be presented at the conference town hall.
All organizers are recommended to follow the honor code and do not add new organizers(proposal authors) or change titles after submission. We recommend workshops to follow the same LLM Usage Policies for ICLR 2026 main conference.
The topics of ICLR 2026 workshops range over Agentic Systems, Alignments, Continual Learning, Generative Models, Memory, Reasoning, Applications, etc. – a diverse set of representation learning advances.
ICLR 2026 Workshops in Numbers
151: workshop proposal submissions (vs 122 in 2025, 1.24x increase)
417: reviews submitted by 74 workshop proposal reviewers
