ADFOCS'26 early registration ends July 5
Rex Lei
Dear colleagues,
ADFOCS is a five-day summer school hosted annually by MPI-Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. This year's edition, on August 10–14, will address the following question:
What foundational theoretical knowledge should a machine learning researcher have?
We hope this summer school will be of particular interest in light of recent progress in employing LLMs to obtain groundbreaking research results.
This year's speakers are leading experts in theoretical computer science and machine learning theory:
- Kasper Green Larsen (Aarhus University) — Theoretical Foundations of Machine Learning
- Ankur Moitra (MIT / IAS) — Theory for Large Language Models?
- David Woodruff (CMU / Google) — Using CS Theory Research for Machine Learning, and Using Machine Learning for CS Theory Research
The school is aimed at early-career researchers, including masters/Ph.D. students and postdocs. It is also suitable for attendees with no prior background in machine learning.
The program will also include a poster session and other opportunities for networking and discussion.
Early registration closes July 5th. The deadline for travel grant applications is July 1st.
More information is available at:
https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/adfocs
Guy Even, Rex Lei, Danupon Nanongkai,
and the organizers of ADFOCS’26