We are happy to announce the third edition of the Armenia LLM Summer School 2026!
We are returning to Yerevan from August 3–7, 2026, and we’re excited to be hosted by our partner, the AI9 Startup Campus.
What’s on the Agenda?
▫️Day 1: Pre-training, Scaling Laws & MoE (with Andre Martins, IST / Unbabel)
▫️Day 2: SFT & Reinforcement Learning (Speaker TBC)
▫️Day 3: Test-time Scaling & Compute-optimality (with Ivan Mashkov, NVIDIA)
▫️Day 4: Agents, Reasoning & Workflows (Speaker TBC)
▫️Day 5: Advanced Topics: VLA, Robotics & World Models (Speaker TBC)
We cap off the week on August 8th with an intensive 24-hour Hackathon! This will be organized by AI9, with Armenia LLM Summer School organizing committee serving as the content partner. The Hackathon will have separate application form and will be open to both the school attendees and other applicants.
Join us in person in Yerevan or via our online track for theoretical sessions.
Apply now: https://armllm.github.io/2026
Special thanks to the AI9 Startup Campus for being a partner for this year’s school as well!

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