ICML 2026 Workshop on
Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling


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Location: HALL D1, Seoul, South Korea
Time: July 10, 2026
Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=ICML.cc/2026/Workshop/SPIGM
Submission Deadline: April 24 AOE, 2026 8 May AOE, 2026
The workshop focuses on theory, methodology, and application of structured probabilistic inference and generative modeling Probabilistic inference addresses the problem of amortization, sampling, and integration of complex quantities from graphical models, while generative modeling captures the underlying probability distributions of a dataset. Apart from applications in computer vision, natural language processing, and speech recognition, probabilistic inference and generative modeling approaches have also been widely used in natural science domains, including physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and medicine. Despite the promising results, probabilistic methods face challenges when applied to highly structured data, which are ubiquitous in real-world settings. We aim to bring experts from diverse backgrounds together, from both academia and industry, to discuss the applications and challenges of probabilistic methods, emphasizing challenges in encoding domain knowledge in these settings. We hope to provide a platform that fosters collaboration and discussion in the field of probabilistic methods. Topics include but are not limited to (see Call for Papers for more details):

  • Generative methods for graphs, 3D, time series, text, video, and other structured modalities, and probabilistic inference in these models for reward fine-tuning, alignment, acceleration, watermarking, etc.
  • Scaling and accelerating inference and generative models
  • Uncertainty quantification in AI systems
  • Sampling and variational inference
  • Intersection between probabilistic inference and LLMs, VLMs, VLAs, and foundation models
  • Applications in sampling, optimization, decision making, etc
  • Applications and practical implementations of existing methods to areas in science
  • Empirical analysis comparing different architectures for a given data modality and application
Similar to last year, we also encourage submissions that explore the relevance of probabilistic inference in the era of foundation models. We welcome submissions that explore the intersection of probabilistic inference and foundation models!

Speakers

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Jona Ballé

NYU

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Jennifer Listgarten

UC Berkeley

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Christian Andersson Naesseth

University of Amsterdam

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Mingyuan Zhou

Microsoft AI Superintelligence, University of Texas at Austin

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Jiatao Gu

UPenn CIS / Apple MLR

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Pilar Cossio

Flatiron Institute


Panel: Diffusion Language Models vs Autoregressive Language Models?

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Subham Sekhar Sahoo

Sr. Research Scientist, MBZUAI - IFM

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Stefano Ermon

Stanford University

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Jiaxin Shi

Meta SuperIntelligence Labs


Organizers

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Jiajun He

University of Cambridge
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Yuanqi Du

MSR NE
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Luhuan Wu

Flatiron Instittue
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Seul Lee

KAIST
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Charlotte Bunne

EPFL
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José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

University of Cambridge
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Anima Anandkumar

Caltech