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 |