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COLM 2026
COLM 2026 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning
Oct 09 2026Official workshop site Site reachable
The 2nd Workshop on Efficient Reasoning at COLM 2026 focuses on making reasoning models faster, cheaper, and more efficient under real-world constraints such as latency, memory, and cost. It brings together researchers working on data, algorithms, systems, safety, and applications of reasoning in multimodal, spatial, and embodied settings, building on the success of the 2025 NeurIPS workshop.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
July 20, 2026
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Research areas in scope
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Scope
Pipelines for creating high-quality training data with resource constraints or deployment environmentsBenchmark methodologies for assessing the efficiency and efficacy of reasoning models in real-world settingsInnovations in techniques for training reasoning models with a better trade-off between efficiency and performanceApproaches for accelerating inference through the design of algorithms and systemsAdvancements in multimodal, spatial, and embodied reasoning under efficiency constraintsTheoretical analysis of the time and space complexity of reasoning modelsEmpirical investigations into the practical efficiency (latency, throughput, memory) of reasoning modelsEfficient large-scale RL training systems and on-device inference enginesKV-cache compression and memory management for long-context reasoningSafety and robustness of efficient reasoning pipelinesIn-depth discussions exploring efficient deployments and applications of reasoning models
Policies worth checking twice
- All submissions must be anonymized and may not contain any identifying information that may violate the double-blind reviewing policy.
- This policy applies to any supplementary or linked material as well, including code.
- We welcome ongoing and unpublished work.
- We will also accept papers that are under review at the time of submission, or that have been recently accepted, provided they do not breach any dual-submission or anonymity policies of those venues.
- The workshop is a non-archival venue and will not have official proceedings.
Official sources
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Last verified September 9, 2026