Schedule — Morning
| 09:00–09:10 | Opening Remarks |
| 09:10–09:40 | Keynote 1: Lingpeng Kong |
| 09:40–10:10 | Keynote 2: Tom Goldstein |
| 10:10–10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30–11:10 | Oral Presentations |
| 11:10–11:40 | Keynote 3: Samy Bengio |
| 11:40–12:30 | Poster Session 1 |
Schedule — Afternoon
| 12:30–13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30–14:00 | Keynote 4: Beidi Chen |
| 14:00–14:30 | Keynote 5: Lisa Li |
| 14:30–15:00 | Keynote 6: Yuandong Tian |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30–16:00 | Panel Discussion |
| 16:00–16:50 | Poster Session 2 |
| 16:50–17:00 | Award & Closing |
Organizers
Xinyi Wang
Nikunj Saunshi
Rui-Jie Zhu
Liu Yang
Yuntian Deng
Nishanth Dikkala
Jiaheng Liu
Zhiyuan Li
Wenhao Huang
Sashank J. Reddi
Chongxuan Li
Sanjiv Kumar
Lingpeng Kong
The University of Hong Kong
Tom Goldstein
University of Maryland
Coffee Break
10:10 – 10:30
Oral Presentations 10:30 – 11:10
- 10:30 Dynamic Large Concept Models: Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space
- 10:40 The Power of Power Law: Asymmetry Enables Compositional Reasoning
- 10:50 Think-at-Hard: Selective Latent Iterations to Improve Reasoning Language Models
- 11:00 When does Chain-of-Thought Help: A Markovian Perspective
Samy Bengio
Apple
Poster Session 1
11:40 – 12:30
Lunch
12:30 – 13:30
Welcome Back — This Afternoon
| 13:30–14:00 | Keynote 4: Beidi Chen |
| 14:00–14:30 | Keynote 5: Lisa Li |
| 14:30–15:00 | Keynote 6: Yuandong Tian |
| 15:00–15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30–16:00 | Panel Discussion |
| 16:00–16:50 | Poster Session 2 |
| 16:50–17:00 | Award & Closing |
Beidi Chen
Carnegie Mellon University
Lisa Xiang Li
Stanford University
Yuandong Tian
Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30
Panel Discussion
What are the key challenges in enabling large language models to reason effectively in latent space?
Poster Session 2
16:00 – 16:50
Dynamic Large Concept Models:
Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space
Latent Reasoning in an Adaptive Semantic Space