[Deadline Extended: May 20] CFP: 6th Muslims in ML (MusIML) Workshop @ ICML 2026

[Shaokai Yang]

Dear ML community,

Apologies for cross-posting.

We are pleased to announce that the submission deadline for the 6th Muslims in ML (MusIML) Workshop, co-located with ICML 2026, has been extended to May 20, 2026 (AOE).

The workshop will take place on July 9, 2026, in Seoul, South Korea. MusIML is an ICML 2026 affinity workshop that brings together researchers and practitioners working across machine learning, responsible AI, fairness, inclusion, and applications relevant to Muslim communities and Muslim-majority regions.

We invite submissions across three tracks:

Track 1: ML research addressing challenges faced by Muslim communities and research related to Islamic contexts.
This track is open to all researchers, regardless of religious or ethnic background. We welcome work on ML for social good, language and speech technologies for underrepresented languages, computational analysis of Islamic texts, data collection and representation, fairness, bias mitigation, healthcare, education, governance, and related topics.

Track 2: Machine learning research by Muslim authors.
This track welcomes broad ML and AI contributions from researchers who self-identify as Muslim, including work on LLMs, multimodal models, generative AI, vision, language, speech, audio, reinforcement learning, optimization, privacy, safety, interpretability, robotics, NeuroAI, AI ethics, and machine learning for society.

Track 3: Machine learning competition proposals for social impact in Muslim communities.
We welcome proposals for ML competitions addressing challenges relevant to Muslim communities worldwide, including fairness, healthcare access, culturally aware NLP, education, governance, and AI for social good in Muslim-majority regions.

Submission format:
- Short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references.
- Previously published, under-review, and in-progress work is welcome.
- Submissions must be anonymized and will be reviewed in a double-blind process.
- Accepted papers will be presented as posters, with selected papers invited for lightning talks.
- Best Paper Awards will be given to papers with strong societal impact.

Important dates:
- Submission deadline: May 20, 2026 (AOE)
- Notification of decision: May 25, 2026 (AOE)
- Camera-ready deadline: June 8, 2026 (AOE)
- Workshop date: July 9, 2026

Workshop website:
https://www.musiml.org/events/2026-ICML/index.html

Submission portal:
https://openreview.net/group?id=ICML.cc/2026/Workshop/MusIML

For questions, please contact: ic...@mail.musiml.org

We would greatly appreciate it if you could share this call with students, colleagues, labs, and communities who may be interested.

Best regards,
Muslims in ML Workshop Organizing Committee