Hi Friends,
🗓️ August 3–7, 2026, full working day (~9am – 5:30pm)
📍AI9 Startup Campus, Isahakyan 9, Yerevan
Agenda
- Day 1: Pre-training, Scaling Laws & MoE (with Andre Martins, IST / Unbabel)
- Day 2: SFT & Reinforcement Learning (Speaker TBC)
- Day 3: Test-time Scaling & Compute-optimality (with Ivan Moshkov, NVIDIA)
- Day 4: Agents, Reasoning & Workflows (Speaker TBC)
- Day 5: Advanced Topics: VLA, Robotics & World Models (with Armen Aghajanyan, Perceptron AI)
We cap off the week on August 8th with an intensive 24-hour Hackathon! This will be organized by AI9, with Armenia LLM Summer School organizing committee serving as the content partner. The Hackathon will have separate application form and will be open to both the school attendees and other applicants.
There will be in person (practical and theoretical) and online track (only theoretical sessions). You can choose which option you prefer; however the participation will be based on test results. Fee waiver is available for applicants (separate application), priority will be given to university students.
Special thanks to the AI9 Startup Campus for being a partner for this year's school as well!
We are looking forward to seeing you soon!
Regards,
Tatev, on behalf of the organizing committee