San Francisco
COLM 2026
October 6 - 8, 2026
San Francisco, California

Overview

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.

Booth schedule

Presentations:

11:30 - 12:00 PM Talk: Super Weights in LLMs and the Failure of Selective Training - Akarsha Sehwag
12:00 - 12:30 PM Talk: BubbleScale: Predictive Environment Prewarming for Agentic RL Rollout - Sathishkumar Sivashanmugam
1:00 - 1:30 PM Talk: L3M: A Lean Harness for Multi-Agent Work - Carson Eisenach
1:30 - 2:00 PM Talk: Trie Automata for Constrained Decoding over Large Finite Sets - Xingzi Xu
2:00 - 2:30 PM Talk: Human-Centered Edge AI: From Robotics to AR Glasses - Yelin Kim

Meet the scientist:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Reinforcement learning, inference

eCF

Xingzi Xu

Generative AI, Inference-time compute, Multi-agent systems

AWS

Jack Butler

Generative AI, Large Language Models, Agentic AI

AWS Generative AI Innovation Center

Nikita Kozodoi

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

LLMs, Agents, Evaluation, Reasoning, Text Detection and Authorship Attribution

Worldwide Amazon Stores

Saranya Venkatraman

AI infra, KV Cache, vLLM etc

AWS

Sathishkumar Sivashanmugam

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Multi-lingual LLMs, Post-Training, Alignment

Alexa International

Shashwat Ranjan Chaurasia

Multimodal LLM, NeuroSymbolic and Multi-Agent Reasoning

AWS

Mofijul Islam

Human-Centered Edge AI, Robotics, AR Glasses

Amazon

Yelin Kim

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Post-training for agentic coding models

AWS - Kiro Science

Dingmin Wang

LLM, Post-Training, Agent

AGI

Haoyang Fang

Presentations:
11:30 - 12:00 PM Talk: OrchOpt: Validation-Gated Architecture Search for Self-Organizing Multi-Agent Orchestration - Amit Dhanda
12:00 - 12:30 PM Talk: Augmented Hypothesis Testing with Persona-Based LLM Simulations - Saab Mansour
1:00 - 1:30 PM Talk: Chart-RL: Policy Optimization Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Visual Reasoning in Chart Question Answering with Vision Language Models - Amit Dhanda
1:30 - 2:00 PM Talk: Inside Amazon University Talent Acquisition - Ankita Goyal
2:00 - 2:30 PM Talk: Beyond Task Success: An Eight-Metric Tiered Evaluation Protocol for LLM Agents over Fragmented Operational Data - Neeraj Baji
4:30 - 5:00 PM Talk: Brick-DICL: Dynamic In-Context Learning for Automated Brick Schema Classification - Yiyue Qian

Meet the scientist:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Multimodal LLM, NeuroSymbolic and Multi-Agent Reasoning

AWS

Mofijul Islam

Post-training for agentic coding models

AWS - Kiro Science

Dingmin Wang

Agentic AI Evaluation

AWS - AMPS

Morteza Alizadeh

RL, LLMs, Multi-agent

SCOT

Carson Eisenach

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Video Understanding, Multi-Modal Learning, World Models, LLM post-training

CS Stores

Divyanshu Mishra

Reinforcement Learning, LLMs, Agentic Systems

AWS Marketplace

Amit Dhanda

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

AF-Tech AI

Sina Ghotbi

Reasoning using LLMs, RL training LLMs and Agent Harnesses

WW Ops

Sreekar Aditya

Multi-agent systems, low latency AI infra, Domain specific agent evals, Agents for mission critical systems

Continuous Infrastructure Automation

Neeraj Baji

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Multi-lingual LLMs, Post-Training, Alignment

Returns and ReCommerce

Shashwat Ranjan Chaurasia

model post training, SFT, RFT, OPD, Agentic RL, Multi-agents,LLM-as-a-Judge

AWS Generative AI Innovation Center

Yiyue Qian

Presentations:

11:30 - 12:00 PM Talk: AI rap battle demo: Can you out-rhyme the agent? - Nikita Kozodoi, Jack Butler
1:00 - 1:30 PM Talk: L3M: A Lean Harness for Multi-Agent Work - Carson Eisenach

Meet the scientist:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Multimodal LLM, NeuroSymbolic and Multi-Agent Reasoning

AWS

Mofijul Islam

DS Agent, Agent Evaluation, Data Synthesis, Agent Optimization

AWS

Chi Zhang

LLMs, Agents, Simulation, NLP, Multilinguality

AWS

Saab Mansour

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Multi-lingual LLMs, Post-Training, Alignment

Returns and ReCommerce

Shashwat Ranjan Chaurasia

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

Episodic Long-Term Memory for Language Agents

Devices and Services

Afrin Dange

Video Understanding, Multi-Modal Learning, World Models, LLM post-training

CS Stores

Divyanshu Mishra

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Domain/research

Team

Amazonian

NLP, Agentic AI

Stores

Arjun Mishra

Reinforcement Learning, Coding Agents, LLMs

AWS - Kiro Science

Abhijeet Awasthi

Main conference publications