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Microsoft is proud to be a sponsor of The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. We are pleased to share Microsoft has (insert final number) accepted papers at this year\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICML is globally renowned for presenting and publishing\u202fcutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore Microsoft\u2019s contribution to ICML 2026 by checking out our accepted papers and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICML Organizing Committee Members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Program Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miroslav Dudik<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publication Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanze Dong, Microsoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Booth schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Tuesday, July 7<\/strong><\/td>11:00 AM \u2013 11:30 AM <\/td>Talk<\/td>World-R1:Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation<\/td>Yifan Yang, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
11:30 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>World Modeling for Embodied AI<\/td>Kaixin Wang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Kyle Lo, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India<\/td>Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India<\/td><\/tr>
1:00 PM \u2013 1:30 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Rule-Based Validity in AI Reasoning<\/td>Rachel Lawrence, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/td><\/tr>
1:30 PM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>Demo<\/td>MagenticLite<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
2:00 PM \u2013 2:30 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Froggy Team (Coding Agent)<\/td>Minseon Kim, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>AIOps <\/td>Grace Gong, Service Engineering, C+AI <\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Frontiers Team<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
3:30 PM \u2013 4:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AIFX Team<\/td>Walid Krichene, AIFX<\/td><\/tr>
4:00 PM \u2013 4:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Young Jin Kim, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
4:30 PM \u2013 5:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>The Quality-Utility Paradox<\/td>Xianliang Yang, Applied Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
Wednesday, July 8<\/strong><\/td>10:00 AM \u2013 10:30 AM<\/td>Demo<\/td>MagenticLite<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
10:30 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the Code|AI Team<\/td>Gaurav Mittal, Principal Researcher, Code|AI, Microsoft Core AI<\/td><\/tr>
11:00 AM \u2013 11:30 AM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the team working on World-Action-Models at Microsoft Research<\/td>Lukas Sch\u00e4fer, Postdoc, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Pallavi Choudhury, Principal Research Engineer, Microsoft Research Americas; Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Chengzu Li, Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/td><\/tr>
11:30 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>Demo<\/td>Global AI Values Challenge<\/td>Xiaoyuan Yi, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Brian Axelrod, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
1:30 PM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>MoLoRA: Composable Specialization via Per-Token Adapter Routing<\/td>Shrey Shah, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
2:00 PM \u2013 2:30 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Evaluating Next Action Prediction Systems<\/td>Tejas Agrawal, Research Fellow, PROSE<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India<\/td>Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India<\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Frontiers Team<\/td>Tim Pearce, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers NYC<\/td><\/tr>
3:30 PM \u2013 4:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Shrey Shah, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
4:00 PM \u2013 4:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI for Science Team<\/td>Claudio Zeni, Senior Researcher, Krzysztof Maziarz, Principal Researcher, AI for Science<\/td><\/tr>
Thursday, July 9<\/strong><\/td>10:00 AM \u2013 10:30 AM<\/td>Demo<\/td>MagenticLite<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
10:30 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India<\/td>Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India<\/td><\/tr>
11:30 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the Code|AI Team<\/td>Gaurav Mittal, Principal Researcher, Code|AI, Microsoft Core AI<\/td><\/tr>
12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Lijuan Wang, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Red Team<\/td>Eugenia Kim, AI Safety Researcher, Microsoft AI Red Team Research<\/td><\/tr>
1:30 PM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Skillopt: Training Agent Skills From Diagnosis to Optimization<\/td>Yifan Yang, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI for Science Team<\/td>Yu Xie, Senior Researcher, Krzysztof Maziarz, Principal Researcher, Claudio Zeni, Senior Researcher, AI for Science<\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Frontiers Team<\/td>Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
3:30 PM \u2013 4:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft is proud to be a sponsor of The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)<\/a>, a premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning. We are pleased to share Microsoft has (insert final number) accepted papers at this year\u2019s conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICML is globally renowned for presenting and publishing\u202fcutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Explore Microsoft\u2019s contribution to ICML 2026 by checking out our accepted papers and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICML Organizing Committee Members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Program Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miroslav Dudik<\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publication Chair<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanze Dong, Microsoft<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Booth schedule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Date<\/th>Time<\/th>Session type<\/th>Session title<\/th>Speaker(s)<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Tuesday, July 7<\/strong><\/td>11:00 AM \u2013 11:30 AM <\/td>Talk<\/td>World-R1:Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation<\/td>Yifan Yang, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
11:30 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>World Modeling for Embodied AI<\/td>Kaixin Wang, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Kyle Lo, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India<\/td>Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India<\/td><\/tr>
1:00 PM \u2013 1:30 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Rule-Based Validity in AI Reasoning<\/td>Rachel Lawrence, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/td><\/tr>
1:30 PM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>Demo<\/td>MagenticLite<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
2:00 PM \u2013 2:30 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Froggy Team (Coding Agent)<\/td>Minseon Kim, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>AIOps <\/td>Grace Gong, Service Engineering, C+AI <\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Frontiers Team<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
3:30 PM \u2013 4:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AIFX Team<\/td>Walid Krichene, AIFX<\/td><\/tr>
4:00 PM \u2013 4:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Young Jin Kim, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
4:30 PM \u2013 5:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>The Quality-Utility Paradox<\/td>Xianliang Yang, Applied Scientist, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
Wednesday, July 8<\/strong><\/td>10:00 AM \u2013 10:30 AM<\/td>Demo<\/td>MagenticLite<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
10:30 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the Code|AI Team<\/td>Gaurav Mittal, Principal Researcher, Code|AI, Microsoft Core AI<\/td><\/tr>
11:00 AM \u2013 11:30 AM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the team working on World-Action-Models at Microsoft Research<\/td>Lukas Sch\u00e4fer, Postdoc, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Pallavi Choudhury, Principal Research Engineer, Microsoft Research Americas; Sergio Valcarcel Macua, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Chengzu Li, Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge<\/td><\/tr>
11:30 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>Demo<\/td>Global AI Values Challenge<\/td>Xiaoyuan Yi, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Brian Axelrod, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
1:30 PM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>MoLoRA: Composable Specialization via Per-Token Adapter Routing<\/td>Shrey Shah, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
2:00 PM \u2013 2:30 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Evaluating Next Action Prediction Systems<\/td>Tejas Agrawal, Research Fellow, PROSE<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India<\/td>Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India<\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Frontiers Team<\/td>Tim Pearce, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers NYC<\/td><\/tr>
3:30 PM \u2013 4:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Shrey Shah, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
4:00 PM \u2013 4:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI for Science Team<\/td>Claudio Zeni, Senior Researcher, Krzysztof Maziarz, Principal Researcher, AI for Science<\/td><\/tr>
Thursday, July 9<\/strong><\/td>10:00 AM \u2013 10:30 AM<\/td>Demo<\/td>MagenticLite<\/td>Yash Lara, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
10:30 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Explore Opportunities at Microsoft Research India<\/td>Manik Varma, Bishal Santra, Gaurav Sinha, Lokesh N, Yashoteja Prabhu, Microsoft Research India<\/td><\/tr>
11:30 AM \u2013 12:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the Code|AI Team<\/td>Gaurav Mittal, Principal Researcher, Code|AI, Microsoft Core AI<\/td><\/tr>
12:00 PM \u2013 12:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the MAI Team<\/td>Lijuan Wang, Member of Technical Staff, Microsoft AI<\/td><\/tr>
12:30 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Red Team<\/td>Eugenia Kim, AI Safety Researcher, Microsoft AI Red Team Research<\/td><\/tr>
1:30 PM \u2013 2:00 PM<\/td>Talk<\/td>Skillopt: Training Agent Skills From Diagnosis to Optimization<\/td>Yifan Yang, Senior Research SDE, Microsoft Research Asia<\/td><\/tr>
2:30 PM \u2013 3:00 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI for Science Team<\/td>Yu Xie, Senior Researcher, Krzysztof Maziarz, Principal Researcher, Claudio Zeni, Senior Researcher, AI for Science<\/td><\/tr>
3:00 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<\/td>Q&A<\/td>Meet the AI Frontiers Team<\/td>Microsoft Research AI Frontiers<\/td><\/tr>
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