Schedule

Friday, October 9, 2026

All times are in San Francisco local time (PDT, UTC-7).

9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m. - Opening

9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. - Invited Talk (Tiago Pimentel): How much does tokenisation impact language models?

10:00 a.m. - 10:10 a.m. - Coffee Break

10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Invited Talk (Alexandre Défossez): Discrete and continuous tokenization for audio-text modeling

11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. - Coffee Break

11:20 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Morning Poster Session

12:30 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. - Lunch Break

1:40 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. - Invited Talk (Amir Zamir): (Multimodal) Flexible-Length Tokenization

2:30 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. - Coffee Break

2:40 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Invited Talk (Artidoro Pagnoni): Tokenization as Resource Allocation

3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m. - Coffee Break

3:50 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Afternoon Poster Session

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Panel: Bridging Gaps across Modalities

6:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks