NeurIPS 2026 Workshop · Sydney
We invite work on foundation models for temporal systems: forecasting, simulation, multimodal environments, and reliable decision-making under real-world complexity.
Timeline
The notification date is set by the NeurIPS workshop chairs and cannot be extended. We therefore cannot grant submission-deadline extensions that would compress the review period.
Submission format
A single track. Submissions may be up to 4 pages, excluding references and appendices; reviewers are not obliged to read appendices. Reviewing is double-blind. We welcome complete results, work in progress, position papers, and preliminary or negative findings alike. Preliminary and exploratory work is also encouraged.
The workshop emphasizes interaction between academia and industry, providing opportunities for discussion beyond traditional conference presentations.
These are encouraged contribution types, not separate tracks:
Scope
We welcome submissions across four connected research axes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the directions below.
Long-horizon and multi-resolution forecasting; multimodal contextual forecasting conditioned on text, video, events, covariates, or actions; calibrated probabilistic forecasting; prediction under sparse observations, regime changes, and distribution shift; scalable trajectory simulation; and adaptive, retrieval-augmented, or agentic forecasting systems, including model selection, ensembling, tool use, planning, and inference-time orchestration.
Large-scale temporal pretraining corpora; environments combining time series with text, video, graphs, sensors, trajectories, actions, and events; video-as-environment corpora; physical evaluation suites; synthetic temporal data; simulation environments; benchmark realism; data quality; and scalable evaluation.
Time-aware models for irregular sampling; event-based models for marked point processes and transaction streams; hierarchical multi-timescale and state-space architectures; generative temporal models; time-series foundation models; scalable pretraining; multimodal fusion; memory and persistent state; embodied vision-language-action systems; and adaptation across domains, modalities, and horizons.
Benchmark realism, data quality, and leakage-aware evaluation; robustness under distribution shift and test-time adaptation; calibration and conformal uncertainty quantification; long-horizon and simulation consistency; neural scaling laws; reproducibility standards; and contamination audits for temporal datasets and pretraining corpora.
Preparing your paper
Evaluation
Submissions will be managed through OpenReview under standard conflict-of-interest policies. Each paper receives three reviews. We have confirmed 40+ reviewers across academia and industry; the program committee is listed on the Organizers page.
Poster and spotlight selections will balance technical quality, topical diversity, and interaction across the workshop communities.
Soundness of the method, analysis, evidence, and claims.
Baselines, contamination and leakage awareness, and statistical treatment.
Experimental transparency, artifact quality, and documentation.
Engagement with the four axes, including negative and replication results.
We will prioritise junior and early-career contributions in spotlight selection.
Participation
Per the NeurIPS 2026 workshop guidance, all workshop papers are non-archival and do not appear in proceedings. Accepted papers will be posted on OpenReview and listed on this site. Presenting here does not preclude later publication at an archival venue.
Organizers, and anyone with a personal conflict of interest with an organizer, may not submit to this workshop. Program committee members may submit; conflicted organizers are excluded from all discussion and decision-making for those papers.
We follow the policy in the NeurIPS 2026 main-track handbook:
Submissions are also subject to the NeurIPS Code of Conduct and NeurIPS Ethics Guidelines.
Submission
The workshop's OpenReview venue is live. The submission form opens shortly; check the venue page, and in the meantime prepare your paper with the NeurIPS 2026 template. The August 29 deadline is unchanged.
Questions: fmtsworkshop@gmail.com.