Conference on Language Modeling

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Call for papers -- due March 31, 2026 (abstracts due March 26)
colmweb.org/cfp.html

Call for workshops -- due April 14, 2026
colmweb.org/cfw.html

Llama enjoying a mug of hot cocoa in an office with Tuesday, March 31 circled on a calendar behind them

COLM 2026 is just around the corner! Mark your calendars for:

💡 Abstract deadline: Thursday, March 26, 2026
📄 Full paper submission deadline: Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Call for papers (website coming soon):
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

COLM is going to San Francisco for 2026!

🗓️Dates: October 6-9, 2026
🏨Venue: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Website and CFPs for papers and workshops coming up soon!

Outstanding paper 4🏆:
Hidden in plain sight: VLMs overlook their visual representations
openreview.net/forum?id=qQb...

Outstanding paper 3🏆: Don't lie to your friends: Learning what you know from collaborative self-play
openreview.net/forum?id=2vD...

Outstanding paper 2🏆: Shared Global and Local Geometry of Language Model Embeddings
openreview.net/forum?id=aJD...

Outstanding paper 🏆 1: Fast Controlled Generation from Language Models with Adaptive Weighted Rejection Sampling
openreview.net/forum?id=3Bm...

We are excited to announce 4 outstanding papers 🏆🏆🏆🏆 --> 🧵

COLM is on!

Opening remarks:
docs.google.com/presentation...

My feed is on 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can't wait to meet you all
It's C-11 hours!

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

Blue sky all the way. @colmweb.org C day -1

Also, if you're at COLM, come to Gillian's keynote and find out what our lab is working on!

My registration site is down... working on it!

Our complete program schedule is now online (and in Whova):
colmweb.org/schedule.html

Keynote spotlight #5: the third of COLM (and last day of the main conference) will open with a keynote by Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic)

Keynote spotlight #4: the second day of COLM will close with @ghadfield.bsky.social from JHU talking about human society alignment, and lessons for AI alignment

As we are spotlighting these last few days, let's also spotlight the spotlights. COLM 2025 has 24 spotlight papers that will be presented as plenary orals 👏

Keynote spotlight #3: COLM's second day will open with some *real* intelligence 🧠🧠🧠 with Tom Griffiths from Princeton

It's in the FAQ :)

Keynote spotlight #2: COLM's first-day afternoon session will go polymathic 🔭 with Shirley Ho 🌌 from the Flatiron Institute

Keynote spotlight #1:
COLM will open on Oct 7 with a keynote by
@lukezettlemoyer.bsky.social about mixed-modals models 🌈

Invited speaker Q. Vera Liao

We are excited to welcome @qveraliao.bsky.social to the ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org for her invited talk "Facilitating Appropriate Reliance on AI: Lessons from HCI Research"! October 10 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal!

Invited speaker Andreas Vlachos of the University of Cambridge

We are excited to welcome @andreasvlachos.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Toward Constructive Conversations"! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

Invited speaker Bertram F. Malle of Brown University

We are excited to welcome Bertram F. Malle of Brown University to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Could Generative Language Models Have Moral Trustworthiness?" #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

COLM 2025 accepted submissions are now public:
openreview.net/group?id=col...

Congratulations to all the authors, and see you all in Montreal!

The draft programme and list of accepted papers at ORIGen 2025 @ @colmweb.org is now available! We look forward to an excellent workshop in October! #AI #NLP #LLMs

Authors, your camera ready is due today!