Schedule (tentative)


Time Type Title & Speakers
8:50 - 9:00 Opening Remarks Organizers
9:00 - 9:45 Invited Talk Azalia Mirhoseini (Stanford University)
9:45 - 10:00 Contributed Talk 1 Reasoning Through Chess: How Reasoning Evolves from Data Through Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning
Lucas Dionisopoulos, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Nicklas Majamaki
10:00 - 10:15 Contributed Talk 2 GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu, Noah Ziems, et al.
10:15 - 11:30 Poster Session 1
11:30 - 12:15 Invited Talk Aviral Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University)
12:15 - 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 - 14:30 Invited Talk Nathan Lambert (Allen Institute for AI)
14:30 - 14:45 Contributed Talk 3 OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models
Etash Kumar Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh, Negin Raoof, Georgios Smyrnis, et al.
14:45 - 15:00 Contributed Talk 4 Learning Composable Chains-of-Thought
Fangcong Yin, Zeyu Leo Liu, Liu Leqi, Xi Ye, Greg Durrett
15:00 - 16:15 Poster Session 1
16:15 - 17:00 Invited Talk Michael Hahn (Saarland University)
17:00 - 17:15 Closing Remarks