ICML — International Conference on Machine Learning

A premier ML methods venue. Historically light on robot manipulation, but by 2026 it hosts a sizable VLA / manipulation presence — distinctive for being methodology-heavy (systematic studies, recipes, efficiency, theory) rather than systems-paper-heavy.

Editions reviewed in this wiki

• ICML 2026 🆕 — Seoul, Jul 6–11, 2026. ~6,636 accepted papers (≈26.6%); 99 confirmed robot-manipulation papers indexed by category, each abstract-verified against the official icml.cc virtual proceedings. Headline themes: VLA as the default paradigm, a large on-robot efficiency/pruning cluster, latent + test-time reasoning replacing explicit CoT, mature world-model-augmented VLA, and an ICML-signature wave of empirical "demystifying" studies and robustness audits.

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