GRaM Workshop @ ICLR 2026

Submit to our blogpost track! Deadline: April 6, 2026

We are pleased to announce this second edition of GRaM, as an ICLR 2026 workshop. This year, we will have a focus on scale and simplicity. We open three tracks: paper tracks, blogposts track and a new competition track. You can find us on the official ICLR webpage.

Deadlines

Paper submission: ~~February 5, 2026 (AoE)~~
Paper notification: ~~March 1st, 2026 (AoE)~~
Paper camera-ready: ~~March 11th, 2026 (AoE)~~
Blogpost submission: April 6, 2026 (AoE)
Blogpost acceptance: April 13, 2026 (AoE)
Workshop dates: April 26, 2026

Call for blogposts (Submit a blog post)

As in previous editions, we also invite submissions to our blogpost track. We welcome blog posts in the ICLR Distill format that aim to communicate ideas clearly and accessibly. Submission guidelines are available on the website: Call for Blog Posts. You can also explore blog posts from GRAM 2024 for examples.

Accepted Papers (OpenReview)

The call for papers is closed. You can see all the accepted papers on the openreview page ICLR 2026 Workshop GRaM. Congratulations to all the authors!

Motivation

Many real-world datasets have geometric structure, but most ML methods ignore such structure, and treat all inputs as plain vectors. GRaM is a workshop about grounding models in geometry, using ideas from group equivariance to non-Euclidean metrics, to build better, more interpretable representations and generative models.

An approach is geometrically grounded if it respects the geometric structure of the problem domain and supports geometric reasoning.

For this second edition, we aim to explore the relevance of geometric methods, particularly in the context of large models, focusing on the theme of scale and simplicity.

Topics

We solicit submissions that present theoretical research, methodologies, applications, insightful analysis, and even open problems, within the following topics (list not exhaustive):

Preserving data geometry
- Preservation of symmetries; e.g., through equivariant operators.
- Geometric representation systems; e.g., encoding data in intrinsically structured forms via Clifford algebras or steerable vectors with Clebsch-Gordan products.
- Isometric latent mappings; e.g., learning latent representations of the data via pullback metrics.
Inducing geometric structure
- Geometric priors; e.g., introducing curvature, symmetry, or topological constraints through explicit regularization.
- non-Euclidean generative models; e.g., extending diffusion models or flow matching models to non-Euclidean domains with a predefined metric.
- Metric-preserving embeddings; e.g., learning latent spaces where intrinsic geodesic distances are mapped to Euclidean ones.
Geometry in theoretical analysis
- Data and latent geometry · Gaining insights on the data manifold, statistical manifold or the latent variables using geometric tools.
- Loss landscape geometry · Viewing parameters and their optimization trajectory as lying on a manifold, enabling analysis of curvature, critical points, and generalization.
- Theoretical frameworks · Using differential geometry, algebraic geometry, or group theory to provide a generalizing perspective on generation or representation learning.
- Open problems · Identifying and addressing unresolved questions and challenges that lie at the intersection of geometry and learning.
Scale and Simplicity
- Geometry at scale · Does equivariance retain value in large-scale models?
- Redundancy and minimality · Evaluating when geometric structure is essential versus when simpler architectures suffice.
- Challenging assumptions · Reporting negative results or limitations of geometric methods to guide future development.