COLM 2026
The Third Annual Conference on Language Modeling
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Registration to the general public is sold out. Please join the waitlist via the Registration 2026 page.
- Call For Socials: If you are interested in hosting a social, fill out this link: https://forms.gle/ZMiif3iNmonQCCb19
- Sep 8: Hotel Update
Our official room block for COLM at the Hilton is now full. The hotel is still accepting reservations directly, but they may close this option at any time without notice. If you haven't booked yet, we recommend reserving a room as soon as possible. For additional hotel options near the Hilton, see the link below.
COLM 2026 Additional Hotel Options - These options are all a current radius of less than a mile to the Hilton Hotel
You are still welcome to book your hotel reservation at the Hilton Union Square until they are full. - Poster sizes are as follows:
- Main Conference: 36" x 72"
- Workshops: 34" x 34"
- Sep 17 Deadline - Main Conference Posters - Order Poster Printing - Onsite Pickup: PosterSession Online
- Sep 17 Deadline - Workshops Posters - order poster printing - onsite pickup: PosterSession Online-Workshops
- Late orders - poster printing/onsite pickup: FedEx Hilton SF Union Square
- Sep 17 Deadline: COLM T-Shirts and Tote bags are available to order
- July 24: The keynotes will be:
- Oct 6: Chelsea Finn, Jennifer Pan
- Oct 7: John Langford, Panel (James Evans, Jeremy Avigad, Rose Yu, Alison Gopnik)
- Oct 8: Henry Farrell, Jason Eisner
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- Childcare provided by KiddieCorp - sign-up Here
- Media Accreditation - Apply Here
About the Conference
The leap in general-purpose capabilities from language models is a landmark in the development of Artificial Intelligence. The nature of this technology has led to a different set of research questions than are the typical focus of related venues. COLM is an academic venue focused on the study of language modeling, broadly defined, with the goal of creating a community of researchers with expertise in different disciplines, focused on understanding, improving, and critiquing the development of LM technology. If you are interested in this goal, see our Call for Papers.
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Venue
Where COLM 2026 will take place
COLM 2026 will be held at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco, USA, from October 6–9, 2026.
The conference is a three-day single-track event with a mix of invited talks, oral paper presentations, and poster sessions. The fourth day is dedicated to workshops.
Exhibitors
We thank our exhibitors for all their support!
If you are interested in sponsoring COLM, please reach out to the COLM Organizational Chair.
COLM gratefully acknowledges support from Pangram and GPTZero to check for hallucinated references, AI-generated papers, and AI-generated reviews.