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The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the world’s premier gatherings for artificial intelligence and machine learning research, will take place July 6–11, 2026, in Seoul, South Korea. Bringing together leading researchers from academia and industry, ICML showcases advances that are shaping the future of AI, from fundamental theories and algorithms to practical applications with real-world impact.
This year, USC Viterbi and USC Stevens faculty and students from the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, the USC Information Sciences Institute and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will present work spanning some of the field’s most pressing challenges, including making AI systems more creative without sacrificing reliability, uncovering how language models reason about complex concepts such as negation, and revealing important limitations in the way multimodal AI systems revisit visual evidence.
Other contributions examine how geographic information can introduce hidden biases into AI decision-making and better align AI with human values through a deeper understanding of how people form and express preferences.
