Congratulations -- Five papers (two splotlights) accepted to ICML 2026!

Many congulations to the authors! The following papers have been accepted to ICML 2026.

• Chunsan Hong, Sanghyun Lee, Jong Chul Ye, “Unifying Masked Diffusion Models with Various Generation Orders and Beyond”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ), 2026 (spotlight, top 2.2%)
• Jaemin Kim, Hangeol Chang, Hyunmin Hwang, Choonghan Kim, Jong Chul Ye,”Universal Reasoner: A Single, Composable Plug-and-Play Reasoner for Frozen LLMs”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ), 2026
• Jaa-Yeon Lee, Yeobin Hong, Taesung Kwon, Jong Chul Ye,”Alignment-Guided Score Matching for Text-to-Image Alignment in Diffusion Models”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ), 2026 (spotlight, top 2.2%)
• Beomsu Kim, ByungHee Cha, Jong Chul Ye,”Align Your Trajectory Tangent: Training Better Consistency Models via Manifold-Aligned Tangents”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ), 2026
• Jinho Chang, Changsun Lee, Hyungjin Chung, Jong Chul Ye,”ContrastiveCFG: Guiding Diffusion Sampling by Contrasting Positive and Negative Concepts”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML ), 2026