GEMLAB at NeurIPS 2026 · Atlanta

Meet GEMLAB at NeurIPS.

A compact guide to GEMLAB papers at NeurIPS 2026, spanning streaming and long-form video generation, physically plausible video, world models, and rare concept generation.

Find us in Atlanta NeurIPS 2026 runs across three locations. GEMLAB will be at the Atlanta site.
01NeurIPS main conference

Papers at NeurIPS 2026

Five GEMLAB papers at the NeurIPS 2026 main conference, all presented at the Atlanta location. Session dates and poster numbers will be added once they are announced.

Paper 01

From Zero to Hero: Training-Free Custom Concept Spawning in World Models

Kiymet Akdemir and Pinar Yanardag

Date TBA Atlanta
Paper 02

VideoMLA: Low-Rank Latent KV Cache for Minute-Scale Autoregressive Video Diffusion

Hidir Yesiltepe, Jiazhen Hu, Tuna Han Salih Meral, Adil Kaan Akan, Kaan Oktay, Hoda Eldardiry, and Pinar Yanardag

Date TBA Atlanta
Paper 03

AdaState: Self-Evolving Anchors for Streaming Video Generation

Yusuf Dalva and Pinar Yanardag

Date TBA Atlanta
Paper 04

HiPhy: Hierarchical Alignment for Physically-Plausible Multi-Principle Video Generation

Tahira Kazimi, Shubhankar Borse, Munawar Hayat, Fatih Porikli, and Pinar Yanardag

Date TBA Atlanta
Paper 05

RAVEL: Rare Concept Generation and Editing via Graph-driven Relational Guidance

Kavana Venkatesh, Yusuf Dalva, Ismini Lourentzou, and Pinar Yanardag

Date TBA Atlanta
02Track record

GEMLAB at previous NeurIPS conferences

A look back at GEMLAB's NeurIPS 2025 papers.

03The team

Meet us in person

Come say hello in Atlanta — reach any of us by email or on the web.

Kiymet AkdemirKA

Kiymet Akdemir

PhD Student

Connor DunlopCD

Connor Dunlop

PhD Student

Other lab members who are not at NeurIPS but contribute greatly to all of our research can be found on our team page.

04Collaborate

Collaborate with GEMLAB

GEMLAB collaborates with leading industry research labs on generative AI, controllability, creativity, and responsible media. We're always open to new partnerships — reach out to start a conversation.

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