Microsoft is proud to have over 150 accepted papers and be a sponsor of the 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) (opens in new tab) occurring April 23 – 27, 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning.
Booth schedule
| Thursday, April 23 | ||||
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Q&A | Q&A with the MSR Health Futures Team | Kenza Bouzid, MSR Health Futures | |
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Q&A | Q&A with the MSR AI for Science Team | Daniel Zügner, MSR AI for Science | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Q&A | Q&A with MSR AI Frontiers Team | Shital Shah, MSR AI Frontiers | |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Q&A | Q&A with the CoreAI Team | Shiyun Xu, CoreAI | |
| Friday, April 24 | 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | |||
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Q&A | Meet the MSR Montreal ML Research Team | Chinmay Singh, MSR Montreal Lucas Page-Caccia, MSR Montreal | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | Q&A | Q&A with the MSR AI for Science Team | Daniel Zügner, MSR AI for Science | |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Q&A | Meet the MSR AIIL Team (AI Interaction & Learning) | Philippe Laban, MSR Redmond (AIIL Team) Jihoon Tack, MSR Redmond (AIIL Team) Robert Ness, MSR Redmond (AIIL Team) | |
| Saturday, April 25 | 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | |||
| 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Q&A | Q&A with the MSR AI for Science Team | Daniel Zügner, MSR AI for Science | |
| 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | ||||
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Q&A | Q&A with MSR AI Frontiers Team | Shital Shah, MSR AI Frontiers |

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