Foundations of Post-training

A COLT 2026 workshop
June 29th, 2026 in San Diego, USA

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Welcome to the homepage of the second workshop on the Foundations of Post-training (FoPt 2026). FoPt is located at COLT 2026 and will be organized in San Diego, USA on the 29th of June, 2026. This workshop seeks to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of post-training and reasoning in LLMs, across a diversity of domains and abstractions. The workshop aims to bring together experts from diverse theoretical and practical areas to identify critical research opportunities.

As a part of FoPt 2026, we invite abstract submissions to a single non-archival track. See our call for abstracts for more details. The submission deadline is Saturday, June 13th, 2026.

Workshop details

Date: Monday, 29th June, 2026
Location: Bahia Resort, San Diego, USA

Detailed schedule TBD.


Invited Speakers

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Niladri S. Chatterji

OpenAI

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Zak Mhammedi

Google Research

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Aviral Kumar

Carnegie Mellon University



Organizers

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Nived Rajaraman

Microsoft Research

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Ayush Sekhari

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

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Bingbin Liu

Kempner Institute, Harvard University

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Akshay Krishnamurthy

Microsoft Research

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Dylan Foster

Microsoft Research