We are excited to announce the list of NeurIPS 2026 workshops. We received 477 submissions (454 valid), a significant increase over last year’s numbers. From this great batch of submissions, we have accepted 102 workshops: 48, 28, and 26, to be hosted in Sydney, Paris, and Atlanta, respectively. The acceptance rates were 21.5%, 25.4%, and 23.6% for Sydney, Paris, and Atlanta, respectively. These variations reflect different numbers of submissions for each location and different numbers of rooms available per venue. 

The workshops will take place on:

• Fri Dec 11 and Sat Dec 12, 2026 – Sydney
• Sat Dec 12 and Sun Dec 13, 2026 – Paris and Atlanta

Given the exceptional quality of submissions this year, we wish we could have accepted many more workshops. We want to thank everyone who put in tremendous effort in submitting a workshop proposal. We would also like to thank the reviewers who worked tirelessly to assess all proposals.

Selection Process

In making our selections, we asked the reviewers to closely follow our Guidance for Workshop Proposals, which was also shared with the proposal authors via the call for proposals. Workshop proposals must be reviewed somewhat differently from academic papers, and hence we asked the reviewers to consider both scientific merits and broader impacts in their assessments, including fitness for NeurIPS, potential for high impact, originality and novelty, quality and clarity, organizers’ quality, speakers’ quality, diversity and quality of logistics. We invited 1021 high-quality reviewers (mostly from past years’ top-reviewer lists) and managed to recruit 353. Each proposal had at least 2 assigned reviewers, whose reviews were summarized into metareview feedback.

Individual reviewers’ evaluations of proposals were important in the decision process, but they were not the only considerations. We also strove for a good balance among research areas, applications, and theory. As interest across research areas varies, some areas were more competitive than others.

This year, we also collected organizers’ preferences for workshop venues. With the exception of a handful of workshops that received their secondary preferred location, we were able to satisfy the primary preference constraints. 

This year we introduced two constraints to safeguard the quality of workshops: we disallowed more than 8 organizers per workshop, and prohibited any organizer from being listed on more than 2 proposals. The vast majority of organizers followed these rules with the exception of 5 cases.

The next step is your contributions! Several workshops have begun soliciting submissions, many using our suggested submission date of Aug 29, 2026. We typically let each workshop advertise its own call for papers (if they plan to include workshop papers). We will communicate some additional deadlines to the workshop organizers to facilitate the successful planning of 102 exciting workshops. Stay tuned for more technical and contextual information coming soon!

NeurIPS 2026 Accepted workshops

Firstly, we would like to warn everyone against any informal workshop lists circulating on the internet — these lists are not affiliated with NeurIPS and do not contain reliable information. Below is the preliminary formal list of accepted workshops for 2026, ordered by location. 

Sydney (48 workshops)

1. Workshop on the Linguistic Principles for Foundation Models
2. DiffuLM – Diffusion Language Models: Foundations, Efficiency, and Reasoning
3. Beyond Next Token Prediction: Diffusion and Flow Models for Next-Generation Decoding
4. Real-Time Conversational Agents: Toward Natural Multimodal Interaction
5. AI for Science: Verification in the Age of AI Scientists
6. AI for Stochastic Dynamics: From Theoretical Foundations to Scientific Applications
7. On-Device Intelligence: Foundation Models under Real-World Constraints
8. Foundation Models for Temporal Systems: From Forecasting to World Modeling
9. Workshop for Autonomous Machine Learning Research
10. Optimization for Machine Learning
11. Dynamic Alignment in Human-AI Coupled Systems
12. AI at Scale for Clinical Impact (ASCI): Cancer Pathology Foundation Models
13. VLM4RWD: Grounded and Faithful Vision-Language Models for Real-World Deployment
14. Trustworthy AI Evaluation (TAI-Eval)
15. PTA: From Pretrained Representations to Acting Agents
16. Agentic AI Benchmark and Application for Enterprise Tasks
17. NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Physical Understanding for Decision-Making: Bridging Foundation Models and Reliable Agents
18. Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
19. AI4Mat-NeurIPS-2026
20. AI Foundations for Power Grids: From Models to Deployment at Scale
21. World Models in Physical AI
22. Machine Learning for Systems
23. The Third Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond
24. Self-Evolving Diversity-Driven Search for Robust AI Systems
25. Interpreting Agent Behavior (IAB): The First Workshop on Human-Centered Interpretation for Understanding Agents, Humans, and Interaction
26. AI for Drug Discovery: Bridging the Translation Gap
27. Machine Learning for Simulations in Biology and Chemistry – Simbiochem 
28. Responsible Communication of Machine Learning Research in Biomedicine (RCMLR)
29. Collaborative, Open, and Decentralized training of Foundation Models
30. Beyond Private Training: The New Landscape of AI Privacy
31. The Third Workshop on GenAI for Health Agentic Systems, Clinical Trust, and Future Potential
32. Continual World Models 
33. AgenticOS: Co-designing Systems and ML Foundations of an OS Layer for Agentic AI
34. Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Intelligence
35. Agentic AI for Biological Discovery: Toward Closed-Loop Life-Science Intelligence (AgenticLS)
36. XAI4Science: Knowledge Discovery and Trust through Interpretable Foundation Models
37. Transitioning from Pre-Training to Post-Training
38. Interpretability as a Science: Toward Rigorous Foundations for Understanding LLMs
39. Who Verifies the Agents? Toward Reliable Agent Development
40. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better (ICBINB): Failure Modes of AI in Biology
41. 2nd Embodied Spatial Reasoning Workshop
42. Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps)
43. Third NeurIPS Workshop on Attributing Model Behavior at Scale: Data Attribution and Provenance
44. Robot Learning with World Models: Capabilities, Frontiers, and Challenges
45. First Workshop on Meta Agents: Managing Agents that Manage Agents
46. 8th Robot Learning Workshop: Is Physical AI truly going zero-shot?
47. Foundation Models for the Brain and Body
48. Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Embodied Agents

Paris (28 workshops)

1. Foundations of Language Model Security: Theory, Practice and Fundamental Limits
2. Reinforcement Learning for Experimental Sciences
3. RobotPAD: Post-Training Adaptation of Robot Foundation Models
4. 2nd Workshop on Advances in Representation Learning for Earth Observation (REO-2)
5. AI for Peace
6. TS-LIMITS – Generalization for Time Series in Tight Settings: Latency, Inference, Memory, Privacy and Sustainability
7. Privacy in the Era of Large Opaque Models: Theoretical, Legal and Practical Perspectives
8. Real-Time Multimodal Conversational AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2026
9. Sim2Science: ML with Imperfect Scientific Models
10. Bridging Optimal Transport, Learning and Structured Data: Toward Geometric Distributional Learning
11. Representations for the Physical Sciences
12. Foundations of LLM Post-Training in Changing Environments
13. ML4Molecules: Agentic Systems for Molecular Sciences
14. LIGHT: Deployable Small Foundation Models
15. E-values: from Statistics to ML
16. PALM: Personalized, aligned, long-term memory for AI systems
17. Trustworthy AI for Good (AI4GOOD) Workshop 
18. AIDaR: AI Data Readiness for Scientific Discovery
19. Principles of Generative Modeling (PriGM)
20. Neural Network Artifacts as a New Data Modality
21. AI for Meta-Science: Scaling and Organizing Science in the Age of AI Scientists
22. AI for Chip Design
23. Machine Learning for Spatially Resolved High-dimensional Biology
24. Foundations of Agentic Systems Theory
25. AXIOM: Foundations of Efficient Deep Learning
26. SLM-Agents: 1st Workshop on SLMs for Agentic Systems 
27. Grounded User Simulation for Model Evaluation and Training: Diversity, Fidelity, and Validity
28. AI and the Self: Human Identity, Authenticity, and Agency in the Age of AI

Atlanta (26 workshops)

1. The 1st Workshop on Physical World AI: Geometry, Characteristics, and Multimodal Sensing 
2. AI for Verifiable Coding
3. The 6th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI
4. DynaFront: Dynamics at the Frontiers of Learning, Sampling, and Games
5. World Models for High-Stakes Health: Reliable Clinical Trial Simulation and Intervention-Aware Reasoning
6. Interpretability for Discovery: Understanding and Discovering Novel Knowledge in AI Models
7. NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Medical Reasoning with Vision Language Foundation Models
8. Can We Trust the Judge? Building Reliable Evaluation for Language Models
9. Workshop on Evaluation of Interactive Agents
10. NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on SaTQuML: Secure and Trustworthy Quantum Machine Learning
11. EconML: Economics for Machine Learning
12. Towards Test-Time Continual Learning Agents
13. AI-Native Academia: Authorship, Peer Review, and Conference Governance under AI
14. Continual Learning for Enterprise AI Agents
15. AI Agents for Biomedical Imaging and Multimodal Clinical Data
16. The BabyVLM Workshop: Toward Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Systems
17. The Agentic Web: Networked, Continually-Adapting Agent Ecosystems
18. SocialAgent: Second Workshop on Large Language Models for Social Reasoning and Simulation
19. Workshop on Resource-Aware Agentic AI
20. Workshop on Child Safety in AI
21. The Third Workshop on Long-Context Foundation Models
22. Human-AI Coevolution: Measuring Human-Agent Teams in the Agentic Era
23. Second Workshop on ML×OR: Mathematical Foundations and Operational Integration of Machine Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making
24. GEM: Integrating Generative and Experimental Platforms for Biomolecular Design
25. DevAI: Developmental Perspectives on AI
26. AI & Science: Evolution or Extinction?

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop Chairs
Ghada Zamzmi, Elisa Ricci, Shao-Hua Sun, Khoa Doan, Theodore Papamarkou, and Piotr Koniusz

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop Chairs Assistants
Nina Corvelo Benz, Junhao Dong