A llama sweating while writing a paper at a desk. A sign says "Deadline! March 31 11:59pm AOE"
❗The full paper submission deadline for COLM is ~14 hours from now (11:59pm AOE)!
Please submit your final PDFs on the same page where you uploaded your abstracts. And please use the provided LaTeX templates; do not handwrite your manuscript like this llama is!
Good luck!
Image of the text at https://colmweb.org/submission-instructions.html
~45 hours until the abstract deadline! Submit abstracts on OpenReview by 3/26 11:59pm AOE, full papers 3/31.
Final reminders & submission instructions for COLM are below. Note that as of the March 31 deadline, papers must not be under review for ICML or committed to ACL
colmweb.org/submission-i...
Generate an image of a llama nearing the finish line, just to realize the real finish line is a bit later... Oh, chatgpt, what is going on?!
The COLM abstract deadline is approaching fast --> March 26!
Full paper deadline is March 31
Verify using the COLM template (and font!) to avoid silly desk rejections. Careful of copy-pasting from other venue submissions, because it often overrides our template
We have a mailing list for big announcements:
groups.google.com/g/colm-annou...
We use it very sparingly, roughly 1-2 times a year
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
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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!
