Program
Below is the full-day program of the workshop, taking place on July 11th in ASEM Ballroom 202.
| Time (Local) | Session | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Welcome & Introduction | Introductory session by the organizers on the topic, submissions, and scope of the venue. |
| 08:45 – 09:30 | Invited Keynote #1 When AI Starts Building AI |
Keynote talk by Beidi Chen. |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Contributed Talks – Session 1 | Oral presentations of contributed work. · MAGE: All-[MASK] Block Already Knows Where to Look in Block Diffusion LLM · Block-Level Recursion: Adaptive Test-Time Routing in Large Language Models |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Coffee Break | Coffee break and networking opportunities. |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Invited Keynote #2 Accurate Low Bit Quantization Through Function Preserving Transformations |
Keynote talk by Markus Nagel. |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Contributed Talks – Session 2 | Oral presentations of contributed work. · BASTION: Budget-Aware Speculative Decoding with Tree-structured Block Diffusion Drafting · On State Reduction in Linear Attention |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Invited Keynote #3 Coordinating Adaptive Inference: From Executable Model States to Agent Trajectories |
Keynote talk by Yingyan (Celine) Lin. |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Lunch Break | Lunch and networking opportunities. |
| 13:00 – 13:45 | Poster Session #1 | Poster session of contributed work. |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Invited Keynote #4 Towards Efficient Multimodal Intelligence |
Keynote talk by Hongxu (Danny) Yin. |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Best Paper & Poster Awards | Announcement of paper/competition awards. |
| 14:30 – 15:15 | Poster Session #2 | Poster session of contributed work. |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee break and networking opportunities. |
| 15:30 – 16:15 | Invited Keynote #5 Adapting Foundation Models to Any Budget (Reuse & Retrieve, Don’t Retrain or Recompute) |
Keynote talk by Sangdoo Yun. |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Contributed Talks – Session 3 | Talks by top-3 competition teams (5 min each). |
| 16:30 – 17:15 | Panel Discussion | Panel discussion with selected invited speakers. |