The 2nd Workshop on the Evaluation of Generative Foundation Models at CVPR 2026

EVGENFM2026

Workshop Date: June 3-4, 2026

Workshop Location, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO (Room TBD)

Since our inaugural workshop at CVPR 2024, generative foundation models have advanced at a striking pace: photorealistic image synthesis with FLUX and Imagen 3, long-form video generation via Sora and Runway Gen-3, multimodal reasoning in GPT-4o and Gemini, and production-ready 3D content creation. Meanwhile, reinforcement learning based post-training (RLHF, GRPO, DPO) has become standard for aligning these models, introducing new evaluation challenges around reward hacking, distributional shift, and alignment verification.

Yet evaluation has struggled to keep pace. Automatic metrics often miss nuanced human preferences, benchmarks saturate faster than they can be replaced, and instruction-following, long-context reasoning, and cross-modal generation demand fundamentally new assessment paradigms.

The 2nd Workshop on Evaluation for Generative Foundation Models at CVPR 2026 brings together researchers from academia and industry to share best practices, discuss ongoing efforts, and work toward more reliable, scalable evaluation protocols, spanning metrics, benchmarks, reward models, and human-in-the-loop methods, to ensure the safe and aligned deployment of next-generation foundation models.

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Detailed Call for Papers

Workshop Schedule

Opening Remarks

1:20 - 1:30 pm (MDT)

Invited Talk #1

1:30 - 1:55 pm (MDT)

Invited Talk #2

1:55 - 2:20 pm (MDT)

Invited Talk #3

2:20 - 2:45 pm (MDT)

Blitz Talks

2:45 - 3:10 pm (MDT)

Coffee Break & Poster Session

3:10 - 3:45 pm (MDT)

Invited Talk #4

3:45 - 4:10 pm (MDT)

Invited Talk #5

4:10 - 4:35 pm (MDT)

Invited Talk #6

4:35 - 5:00 pm (MDT)

Oral Paper Presentation

5:00 - 5:20 pm (MDT)

Panel Discussion

5:20 - 5:50 pm (MDT)

Closing Remarks

5:50 - 6:00 pm (MDT)


Invited Speakers and Panelists

Ranjay Krishna

Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Adriana Romero Soriano

Meta FAIR

Felix Friedrich

Meta FAIR

Weiwan Liu

Meta GenAI

Yi Wei

Samsung Labs

Koustuv Sinha

Meta FAIR

Mike Z. Shou

Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore


Submission Timeline

Paper Submission Deadline

March 21, 2026, 23:59 PT

Notification to Authors

March 25, 2026, 23:59 PT


Program Committee

Mingye Lu

Hooman Vaseli

Yi Wei

Sagar Shrestha

Rakesh Chada

Mark Hubenthal

Wenliang Zhong

Liwei Che

Gitika Karumuri

Wenhao Wu

Deen Dayal Mohan

Nitesh Sekhar

Duanshun Li

Pradeep Yarlagadda

Phanideep Gampa

Wencong You

David Wu

Louise Xie

Ji Li

Xiang Fan



Organizers

Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu

Amazon (Primary Contact)

Wisdom Oluchi Ikezogwo

University of Washington

Xu Zhang

Amazon AGI

Karim Bouyarmane

Amazon

Suren Kumar

Amazon

Maria Zontak

Meta

Wenyi Wu

Meta

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