The 1st International Workshop · Sustainable & Efficient LVA Models

The 1st International Workshop on Sustainable and Efficient Language, Vision, and Action Models (SELVA)

Confronting the computational costs of scaling Language, Vision, and Action Models.

ACL 2026 Co-located Workshop San Diego, California, USA Tentative: one-day online workshop

Overview

SELVA focuses on efficiency and sustainability across language, vision, and action models, especially for real-time and resource-constrained deployment.

Recent advances in LLMs, VLMs, and VLA systems are accompanied by rapidly increasing compute and energy costs. SELVA aims to foster cross-disciplinary discussion spanning NLP, computer vision, robotics, and systems to develop methods that are both high-performing and computationally feasible.

Efficient Architectures for Multimodality
MoE, state-space models, and sparse routing for language-vision-action fusion.
Model Compression and Acceleration
Sub-4-bit quantization, structured pruning, and distillation.
Sustainable Training and Real-Time Inference
Energy-aware pretraining, PEFT, and optimized engines for low latency.
Efficiency for Embodied AI
Efficient world models, policy optimization, and low-compute interaction loops.
Metrics, Measurement, and Societal Impact
Transparent energy/latency reporting and broader environmental implications.

Call for Papers

We welcome high-quality original research and system papers related to efficient and sustainable LVA models.

Submission Website

Submit via OpenReview

Submission Scope

  • Efficient multimodal and embodied AI architectures
  • Compression, quantization, pruning, and distillation for foundation models
  • Systems optimization and low-latency deployment pipelines
  • Energy/latency benchmarks and trustworthy reporting
  • Sustainable AI policy and broader impact analyses

Hybrid format planned: invited talks, contributed talks, poster session, and award ceremony.

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline

May 20, 2026

Notification

Jun 10, 2026

Camera-ready deadline

Jun 15, 2026

Workshop date

July 03, 2026

Timezone convention: AoE (UTC−12).

Invited Speakers (TBD)

Indicative confirmed invited speakers from the workshop submission.

Priyadarshini Panda

Priyadarshini Panda

University of Southern California

Algorithm-hardware co-design and neuromorphic computing for ultra-low-power AI systems.

Kurt Keutzer

Kurt Keutzer

UC Berkeley

Practical challenges in training and deploying efficient deep neural networks.

Luca Benini

Luca Benini

ETH Zürich

PULP platform pioneer; energy-efficient hardware for real-time embodied AI at the edge.

Yukang Chen

Yukang Chen

NVIDIA

LongLoRA / LongVILA and efficient long-context modeling for interactive agents.

Huanrui Yang

Huanrui Yang

University of Arizona

Mathematical foundations of efficient deployment and adaptation for robust AI models.

Organizers

Core organizers and contributors listed in the submission.

Jian Cheng

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Michele Magno

ETH Zürich

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Zechun Liu

Meta

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Olivera Kotevska

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Yawei Li

ETH Zürich

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Haotong Qin

ETH Zürich

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Weilun Feng

Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Program Committee (partial)

Initial PC members listed in the submission excerpt (can be extended on final website).

  • Yiming Li — Tsinghua University
  • Mingyuan Zhang — Nanyang Technological University
  • Xiaojun Jia — Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jindong Gu — University of Munich
  • Siqi Wang — Boston University
  • Yuhang Li — Yale University
  • Yajun Gao — Beijing Jiaotong University
  • Akshayvarun Subramanya — UMBC
  • Aniruddha Saha — University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • ... (more to be announced)

Venue & Logistics

ACL 2026 is scheduled in San Diego, and workshop logistics can align with the ACL workshop venue details.

Co-located Conference

The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026)

San Diego, California, USA · July 2–7, 2026

Workshop days: July 3–4, 2026 (SELVA exact date/room TBD).

Conference Venue (ACL 2026)

Grand Hyatt Manchester San Diego
1 Market Place, San Diego, CA 92101

ACL 2026 venue page · Hotel booking link

Grand Hyatt Manchester San Diego