Congratulations -- five papers accepted to ICLR 2026!

We’re pleased to announce that the following papers have been accepted to ICLR 2026. Congratulations to all authors!

• Jinho Chang, Jaemin Kim, Jong Chul Ye, “Training-Free Reward-Guided Image Editing via Trajectory Optimal Control”, in Proceedings of The Fourteenth I nternational Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
• Chunsan Hong, Seonho An, Min-Soo Kim, Jong Chul Ye,”Improving Discrete Diffusion Unmasking Policies Beyond Explicit Reference Policies”, in Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
• Jeongjae Lee, Jong Chul Ye, “PCPO: Proportionate Credit Policy Optimization for Preference Alignment of Image Generation Models”, in Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
• Jeongsol Kim, Yeobin Hong, Jonghyun Park, Jong Chul Ye, “FlowAlign: Trajectory-Regularized, Inversion-Free Flow-based Image Editing”, in Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
• Byungjun Kim, Soobin Um, Jong Chul Ye,”Diverse Text-to-Image Generation via Contrastive Noise Optimization”, in Proceedings of The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.