Seven Algoverse research papers were accepted to workshops at ICML 2026 (International Conference on Machine Learning), held at the COEX convention center in Seoul, South Korea. Students traveled to Seoul to present their work in person, many of them high school students standing alongside researchers from the world's leading labs and universities.
What is ICML?
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is one of the premier conferences in the field, attracting thousands of researchers from academia and industry each year. Workshop acceptances at ICML are peer-reviewed recognition for focused research contributions.
Accepted Papers
- Playing Devil's Advocate: Off-the-Shelf Persona Vectors Rival Targeted Steering for Sycophancy — EIML Workshop, selected as a Spotlight
- Why Limit the Residual Stream to Layers and Not Tokens? Persistent Memory for Continuous Latent Reasoning — EIML Workshop
- Mechanistic Origins of Catastrophic Forgetting: Why RL Preserves Circuits Better than SFT? — EIML Workshop
- Interpreting Latent CoT Reasoning as Dynamical Systems — FoGen Workshop
- Benchmarking Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models to Reveal Significant Demographic Disparities — FMSD Workshop
- A Fairness Audit of Medical Imaging Foundation Models on a Multimodal Structured Clinical Benchmark — SD4H Workshop
- A Controlled Study of Fairness Interventions for Temporal Graph Transformers on ICU Mortality Prediction — SD4H Workshop
The accepted work spans mechanistic interpretability, AI safety, and machine learning for healthcare, including fairness audits of clinical foundation models and interventions for ICU mortality prediction.
Presenting in Seoul
For many of the student authors, this was their first time presenting at an international research venue. Standing at a poster and fielding questions from working researchers is a milestone that most students don't reach until graduate school.
