We’re excited to announce RISE-DL 2026 (Research and Innovation in Scalable and Efficient Deep Learning), co-located with the 16th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2026) in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, on November 17, 2026.
Why RISE-DL?
As deep learning models continue to grow in scale and complexity, efficiency and sustainability need to become first-class objectives alongside raw performance. Today, progress on these fronts is scattered across separate communities—algorithms, hardware, and systems—which makes it harder to build end-to-end solutions that actually work in real-world deployments.
RISE-DL brings these threads together in one forum, focused on efficient and scalable deep learning across the full spectrum of computing environments: from IoT and edge devices, to cloud and HPC infrastructure.
What We’re Looking For
We welcome original research, prior work, preliminary results, work-in-progress, and exploratory directions across the model lifecycle — design, training, inference, and deployment. Topics of interest include:
- Training for long-term sustainability — quantization-aware training, pruning-aware training, knowledge distillation, green-aware neural architecture search
- Scalable training of generative AI — KV-cache optimization for LLMs, memory-efficient attention, parameter-efficient fine-tuning
- Fast inference and serving — speculative decoding, early-exit strategies, caching mechanisms
- On-device, continual, and incremental learning — test-time adaptation, online and lifelong learning, edge personalization under resource constraints
- Data-centric efficient deep learning — data pruning, compression, selection, dataset distillation
- Benchmarking, metrics, and evaluation — energy consumption, latency, memory footprint, carbon emissions
- Distributed learning across the edge–cloud continuum — federated learning, split learning, gossip learning
Key Dates
| Milestone | Deadline |
|---|---|
| Paper submission | August 31, 2026 |
| Author notification | September 30, 2026 |
| Camera-ready submission | October 2, 2026 |
| Workshop day | November 17, 2026 |
All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).
Get Involved
Whether you’re working on efficient training, on-device intelligence, or scalable serving infrastructure, we’d love to see your work at RISE-DL 2026. Full details, including the organizing committee and program committee, are available on the workshop website.
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Newcastle this November!