Congratulations!!

with @fredashi.bsky.social / Jiayuan Mao / @djiafei.bsky.social / @manlingli.bsky.social / David Hsu / Parisa Kordjamshidi

& @tianminshu.bsky.social (+ @marstin.bsky.social, @zhitinghu.bsky.social, ‪@lianhui.bsky.social & more) will present “SimWorld: A World Simulator for Scaling Photorealistic Multi-Agent Interactions,” an @unrealengine.bsky.social-based sim that generates unlimited/diverse urban environments: (13/14)

We introduce RefOI, a new dataset of 1.5k objects, each with 3 written and 2 spoken human-produced referring expressions. We also release RefOI-TLHF, a large dataset of token-level human feedback for 10.6k referring expressions.

👀https://vlm-reg.github.io/
📄https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16060

🔹 Workshop Paper at World Models:
Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models?
🗓 Apr 27, 9 p.m. (Peridot 201&206)

Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=tpP...

Excited for this collaboration with MaitrixOrg, details coming soon :)

🔹 ICLR BiAlign Workshop:
We’re hosting the Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment Workshop (BiAlign).
🗓 Apr 28, (Garnet 216–214)

Website: bialign-workshop.github.io

I’ll join remotely — huge thanks to @huashen.bsky.social for leading this!

🔹 ICLR Oral Paper:
Do Vision-Language Models Represent Space and How?

🗓 Oral: Apr 25, 3:42–3:54 a.m. (Session 4C)
🗓 Poster: Thu, Apr 24, 10 p.m.–12:30 a.m. (Hall 3 + 2B, #212)

Website: spatial-comfort.github.io

Big thanks to @fredashi.bsky.social for presenting on site!

📄 View the full list of accepted papers: bialign-workshop.github.io#/papers

We look forward to seeing you there!

🎉 Out of these, 72 papers were accepted, including 5 tiny papers. 10 papers were selected for oral presentations: 2 at CHI and 8 at ICLR. Award winners will be announced during the workshop!

📬 We received over 100 submissions, each reviewed by 2–4 expert reviewers, with ethical assessments included when appropriate. Our program committee features leading researchers in NLP, RL, HCI, ML, and AI/ML Ethics, carefully selected based on scholarly merit and expertise.

🙏 Special thanks to Tammy Masterson, Technical Partnerships Lead at the AI Security Institute, who will be joining us as a panelist.

🙏 We are grateful to our gold sponsors, Prolific and Layer 6 AI of TD Bank Group, for their generous support in funding paper awards and travel grants.