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Affinity Event Wed, Jul 8, 2026 • 4:00 PM – 1:00 AM PDT ROOM E1 - E4

GlobalSouthML @ ICML 2026

Tushar Shinde ⋅ Sandareka Wickramanayake ⋅ Akila Hewa Thondilege

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Abstract

This workshop aims to advance Machine Learning (ML) research and practice in developing economies by fostering collaboration among organizers, speakers, and participants from Asia, Africa, and beyond, spanning academia and industry. It addresses how constraints in data, computation, and infrastructure reshape ML design and deployment. Topics include deployable ML under resource constraints, public health and social impact, learning under data scarcity, and ML for emerging industries. By positioning developing economies as sources of novel methodological challenges, the workshop promotes inclusive participation and highlights globally impactful, deployment-aware ML research within the ICML community.

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Schedule

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles

4:00 PM

Opening and Community Framing

4:15 PM

Keynote 1 by Monojit Choudhury

4:45 PM

Tackling Social Challenges in Africa using AI and ML

Ernest Mwebaze

5:15 PM

Keynote 3 by Girmaw Abebe Tadesse

5:45 PM

Rethinking Medical AI for Low-Resource Environments

Hieu Pham

6:15 PM

Tea/Coffee Break

6:30 PM

Lightning Talks Session I

7:30 PM

Empowering Tea Industry in Sri Lanka using AI and ML

Tharindu Kaluarachchi

8:00 PM

Key note 6 by Balaraman Ravindran

8:30 PM

Lunch

9:30 PM

Deploying 3D Cranial Reconstruction in Low-Resource Settings

Titipat Achakulvisut

10:00 PM

Leveraging LLMs for low-resource languages

Surangika Ranathunga

10:30 PM

3MT Competition

11:30 PM

Tea/Coffee Break

12:00 AM

Lightning Talks Session II

12:45 AM

Awards Ceremony and Closing Remarks

Deep Microcompression: Structured Pruning and Bit-packed Quantization for Microcontrollers

Opegbemi M Busoye ⋅ Tolulope M Busoye ⋅ Eghonghon-aye Eigbe

The Invisible Charter: Frontier AI as Colonial Infrastructure and the Case for Multi-Vector Sovereign Governance

Subramanyam Sahoo ⋅ Vinija Jain ⋅ Aman Chadha ⋅ Divya Chaudhary

Seeing to Generalize: How Visual Data Corrects Binding Shortcuts

Nicolas Buzeta ⋅ Felipe del Rio ⋅ Cristian Hinostroza ⋅ Denis Parra ⋅ Hans Lobel ⋅ Rodrigo Toro Icarte

Router-Guided Data Selection for Efficient Deep Learning

Humaira Kousar ⋅ Hasnain Irshad Bhatti ⋅ Mohammad Mahdi Rahimi ⋅ Jaekyun Moon

Balanced Fine-Tuning Is Not Enough: Latent Bias Mitigation in Speech Foundation Models

Utkarsh Sharma ⋅ Rajeev Ranjan Dwivedi ⋅ Vinod K Kurmi

Machine Learning Challenges in Intelligent Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Operations in Developing Economies

Isuru Munasinghe ⋅ Nethmi K Pathirana ⋅ Charitha Dombawala ⋅ Akila Hewa Thondilege ⋅ Asanka G Perera

Confusion-Aware Transfer Teacher Curriculum Learning Framework: Disentangling Scoring and Pacing Effects

Savini Kommalage ⋅ Sanka Mohottala ⋅ Asiri G Lindamulage ⋅ Dulara Madhusanka ⋅ Menan Velayuthan ⋅ Dharshana Kasthurirathna ⋅ Mahima Weerasinghe ⋅ Charith Abhayaratne

GITCO: Gated Inference-Time Context Optimization in TSFMs

Manya Pandey ⋅ Dhruv Kumar ⋅ Murari Mandal ⋅ Saurabh Deshpande

Bridging Fixed and Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing via AI Orchestration

Ritik Kumar Das ⋅ Sudipan Saha

Validation-Free Early Stopping for XGBoost via Spectral Saturation

Shahrizoda Jurakulova

Scale When Needed: Adaptive Neuron-level Mixed Precision Quantization Aware Training

Ayush Kumar Varshney ⋅ Konstantinos Vandikas ⋅ Sarunas Girdzijauskas ⋅ Adam Orucu ⋅ Aneta V Feljan

Default Lock-In: A Compute-Economics Account of Cultural Homogenization in AI Writing Tools

Abhra Kanti Dubey

PatchXFormer: Bridging the Data Gap in Tropical Solar Power Forecasting for Equitable Renewable Energy

Chathushka Karunathilaka ⋅ Sandareka Wickramanayake

Refugee Watch: An Open-Source Framework for Climate-Resilient Humanitarian Analytics

Lisa Y Tang ⋅ Wai Tang

Adversarial Reasoning Manipulation in Small Language Models: Attack Taxonomy, Empirical Evaluation, and Detection Framework

Sandares D Fernando

CVarGD: Coreset-Variance-Aware Gradient Descent for Data-Scarce Image Classification

Amina S Omar ⋅ Yussuf Hassan Hamad ⋅ Saleh H Othman ⋅ Anwar Aziz

Are Explanations Faithful Across Skin Tones? Assessing Foundation-Model Dermatology Classifiers

Rosa Y. G. Paccotacya-Yanque

Jailbreaking Open-Weight LLM Defenses Without Fine-tuning

Kevin Kuo ⋅ Chhavi Yadav ⋅ Virginia Smith

Single-Token Compositional Interfaces for Productive Morphology in Global South Languages

Divyajot Singh

HiBias: A Nine-Faceted Bias Annotation Dataset for Media Bias Detection in Hindi

Kushal Trivedi ⋅ Roshni Chakraborty ⋅ Murtuza Shaikh ⋅ Sriyansh Sharma ⋅ Subhoshri Pal

Efficient Data Selection for Split Neural Networks

Humaira Kousar ⋅ Hasnain Irshad Bhatti ⋅ Jaekyun Moon

Resolving Scale Conflict via Synchronized Multi-Stream Learning: A Framework for High-Fidelity Geospatial Mapping

Saloni Mohapatra ⋅ Akshat Srivastava ⋅ Pawni Saxena

Which Anatomy Matters Under Limited Labels? A Data-Efficient Anatomy-Aware Benchmark for Cardiac Pathology Prediction

HIMANSHU SINGH

Reducing Redundant Actions in ReAct Agents via Semantic Filtering

Ngoc-Tien Truong ⋅ Duc Nghia

LLM Scheming Inversely Scales with Pretraining Language Coverage

Nathan Truong ⋅ Aryan Panda ⋅ Rayming Ye ⋅ Zoe Sun ⋅ Madhur Panwar ⋅ Maheep Chaudhary

When Source Curricula Hurt: A Theory of Curriculum Transfer Under Distribution Shift for Low-Resource Learning

Siddharth Karuturi ⋅ Kaustubh Bukkapatnam

Bodily Emotion Recognition on ABEE: A Diagnostic Baseline Study for Multi-Label Classification and VAD Regression

Rohan Saha

ADAL-R: Adaptive Drift-Aware Active Learning for Label-Efficient Streaming Regression

W.K.H. Hasara

Seeing Without Light: A Benchmark Thermal Dataset for Robust Gesture Recognition

Aman Singh ⋅ Sajjan Singh ⋅ Bhashkar Kashyap ⋅ Akshay Agarwal

Spectral Representation Learning for Conditional Independence Testing

Alek Fröhlich ⋅ Vladimir Kostic ⋅ Karim Lounici ⋅ Daniel Rodrigues Perazzo ⋅ Daniel Tiezzi ⋅ Massimiliano Pontil

Bridging the Multilingual Gap in Educational Question Generation via Knowledge Distillation

Byambaa Bayarmandakh

WaveMix: Resource-efficient Neural Network for Image Analysis

Pranav Jeevan P ⋅ Kavitha Viswanathan ⋅ Anandu A S

Evaluation of Contextual Understanding in Large Language Models

Mamta Nallaretnam ⋅ Subavarshana Arumugam ⋅ Kithuni Wickramasinghe ⋅ Chamath Gunapala ⋅ Uthayasanker Thayasivam ⋅ Kamal Premaratne ⋅ pragatheeswaran vipulanandan

Curriculum Learning for Safety Alignment

Sandeep Kumar ⋅ Virginia Smith ⋅ Chhavi Yadav

ABO-Med: Accelerated Bilevel Optimization for Few-Shot Medical Image Classification

Ruoxuan Shi ⋅ Sheng Yang ⋅ Yating Liu

MIC: Maximizing Informational Capacity in Adaptive Representations via Isotropic Subspace Alignment

Nguyen Dang ⋅ Nhi N Nguyen ⋅ Hieu Pham

Semantics or Structure? Auditing Text Sensitivity in Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting

Karthik Sridhar ⋅ Atharva Gupta ⋅ Nishant Pradhan ⋅ Murari Mandal ⋅ Dhruv Kumar ⋅ Saurabh Deshpande

kilimoAI: Participatory Machine Learning for Low-Resource Crop Disease Detection in Tanzania

Neema Mduma

IDO: Incongruity-aware Distribution Optimization for Multimodal Fake News Detection

Hengyang Zhou ⋅ Rongman Hong ⋅ Yuxuan Zhou ⋅ Jing Wang ⋅ Zhaoyan Pan

Agentic Tool-Augmented Translation for Low-Resource Sanskrit--English under Resource Constraints

Jintao Ma ⋅ Junwen SHEN ⋅ Xinyue WANG ⋅ Xuesai kong ⋅ Dengkui Hou ⋅ PENG HAOYU ⋅ lingxiang hu ⋅ Leqi LIU ⋅ Dun Li

Beyond Echocardiography: Multimodal Deep Learning for Ejection Fraction Estimation from Standard ECG

Sudhanshu Gaurhar ⋅ Gurunath Parale ⋅ Tushar Shinde ⋅ Surender Deora ⋅ Anil K Tiwari

Bridging the Visual Gap: Resource-Efficient VLM Adaptation for Meitei Mayek using Synthetic Multi-Modal Mixtures

Agniva Maiti ⋅ ADITYA TIWARI ⋅ Dwarikanath Mahapatra ⋅ Sudipta Roy ⋅ Yash Sinha ⋅ Dhruv Kumar ⋅ Murari Mandal

Efficient AI Deployment on Legacy Data Centers in the Global South

Kedir Yassin Hussen

IndicDB - Benchmarking Multilingual Text-to-SQL Capabilities in Indian Languages

Aviral Dawar ⋅ Roshan Karanth ⋅ Vikram Goyal ⋅ Dhruv Kumar

A Co-Evolutionary Metaheuristic-HDBSCAN Framework for Feature Selection in eGFR-Based CKD Prediction

U.S. Samarasinghe ⋅ H. A Perera ⋅ Lidhamullage D Subhashini ⋅ Pubudu U Chulasiri

Human-Guided Causal Hypothesis Testing for Remote Sensing Anomaly Detection

kaustubha V

Retrieval Dwelling: A Principled Sampling Strategy for Exploiting Spurious State Exploration

Rohit Sinha ⋅ saroj Kumar

Convolutional X-formers for Vision

Pranav Jeevan P

BiomedXPro: Prompt Optimization for Explainable Diagnosis with Biomedical Vision Language Models

Kaushitha Silva ⋅ Mansitha Eashwara ⋅ Sanduni Ubayasiri ⋅ Ruwan Tennakoon ⋅ Damayanthi Herath

Beyond Pixels: Embedding-Guided Keyframe Selection for VidLLMs

Sreejita Roy ⋅ Tushar Shinde

Resource-Aware Prompting for Sinhala-Tamil Machine Translation: Methodological Insights for Compute-Limited Settings

Imanthi Okadini ⋅ Randil Pushpananda ⋅ Chamila Liyanage ⋅ Ruvan Weerasinghe

FairCore: Subgroup-Equitable Coreset Selection with Provable Fairness–Efficiency Tradeoffs

Kaustubh Bukkapatnam ⋅ Siddharth Karuturi ⋅ Soham Batra ⋅ Laksh Patel ⋅ Tanush A Shastry

CREST: Covariate-Regularized Emission Forecasting with Seasonal-Temporal Decomposition for Carbon Emission Prediction

Anushka Chaubey

Memory-Efficient Partitioned DNN Inference on Resource-Constrained Android Crowds

Lakshani Manamperi ⋅ Thiwanka Roshen Pathirana ⋅ Disumi Pathirana ⋅ Nipun Viraj

Understanding, Not Memorising: Hypernetwork-Based Weight Compression for Low-Resource Edge Deployment

Manojshyaam C J

CAGrad-Lite : Robust Coreset-Aware Gradient Descent for Low-Data Regimes

Krishna Gupta

Evaluating Indic Literary Creativity In LLMs through the Lens of the Shastras

Agniva Maiti ⋅ Aarsh Muley ⋅ ADITYA TIWARI ⋅ Dwarikanath Mahapatra ⋅ Sudipta Roy ⋅ Yash Sinha ⋅ Dhruv Kumar ⋅ Murari Mandal

Med-Cam: Minimal Evidence for Explaining Medical Decision Making

Pirzada Suhail ⋅ Aditya Anand

LawChain: A Resource-Efficient Blueprint for Legal Information Retrieval in Low-Resource Jurisdictions

Ovindu Atukorala ⋅ Randeepa Appuhami ⋅ Nisansa de Silva

On the Role of Intermediate Representations in Knowledge Distillation for Robust Generalization

Vaibhav Singh ⋅ Prateek Chanda ⋅ Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Stratified Coreset Selection for Data-Efficient Low-Resource African Language Sentiment Classification

Anubhav Kumar

Normalizing Flow based Metric for Image Generation

Pranav Jeevan P ⋅ Neeraj Nixon

WhenSpecializationLoses: ADecisionBoundaryStudyofSarvam-1vs.Translate-TestforHindiNLP

Anuj Gautam ⋅ Anshika Gautam

GlotOCR Bench: OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts

Amir Hossein Kargaran ⋅ Nafiseh Nikeghbal ⋅ Jana Diesner ⋅ François Yvon ⋅ Hinrich Schuetze

One Backbone, Two Flood Hazards: Cross-Basin CNN Forecasting of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall and Storm Surge

Jeni Mei ⋅ Robert E Rouse ⋅ Dat Hong ⋅ Samuel Belkadi

When Compression Helps Transfer: Optimal Sparse Model Selection under Distribution Shift for Low-Resource Deployment

Siddharth Karuturi ⋅ Kaustubh Bukkapatnam ⋅ Laksh Patel ⋅ Tanush A Shastry

VidAnimator: User-Guided Stylized 3D Character Animation from Human Videos

Xinwu Ye ⋅ Jielin Feng ⋅ JUN-HSIANG YAO ⋅ Xingyu Lan ⋅ Siming Chen

Answer, Ask, or Escalate? Evaluating Public-Service Triage in Global South Languages

Neel Tushar Shah ⋅ Manglam Kartik

Variance-Aware Quantized Multi-Scale Conformer for Efficient ECG Rhythm Classification on Resource-Constrained Devices

Sudhanshu Gaurhar ⋅ Tushar Shinde ⋅ Surender Deora ⋅ Anil K Tiwari

"So, How Much Do LLMs Hallucinate on Low-Resource Languages?" A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

Kushal Trivedi ⋅ Murtuza Shaikh ⋅ Sriyansh Sharma

Learning to Correct: Efficient Image Super-Resolution via Fourier-Based Correction Maps

Gowthamaan Palani ⋅ Ganapathy Krishnamurthi

MoReg: Minimal-Overlap 3D Point Cloud Registration via Visibility-Aware Matching

Rushikesh Bhosale ⋅ Sundaram Muthu

VarNorm-GD: Gradient Variance Normalisation for Scarce-Data Image Classification

MUNUSAMY M ⋅ Sai Adith Prakash ⋅ Aryan Rajput

DAPQ: Defect-Aware Perceptual Quality Metric for Training-Free Augmentation in Industrial Anomaly Detection

Sreejita Roy ⋅ Tushar Shinde

"Less is More" for AIGC Quality: A No-Reference IQA Model from Scratch

Sreejita Roy ⋅ Anurag Roychowdhury

Corpus Composition Matters: Mixing Synthetic and Real Data for Time-Series Foundation Model Pretraining

Aaryan Nagpal ⋅ Debdeep Sanyal ⋅ Murari Mandal ⋅ Dhruv Kumar ⋅ Saurabh Deshpande

PhyJointNet: Attention-Guided Joint Segmentation & Classification of Breast Ultrasound with Latent Feature Augmentation

Nimalesh Elangovan ⋅ Tushar Shinde ⋅ Hitika Tiwari

Latent Space Refusal Anchoring for Low-Resource African Languages: Mechanistic Safety Recovery Without Retraining

Godwin Abuh Faruna

Shadow-Robust Interactive Whiteboard via YUV Preprocessing and MediaPipe Hand Tracking

H.N.Jithun Methusahan ⋅ Gayani Wickramarathna

Patient-Aware Contrastive Learning Preserves Per-Patient Structure in RR-Interval Representations

Yasantha Niroshan ⋅ Weijith M Wimalasiri ⋅ Chathuranga Hettiarachchi

IndiaCultureVL-Bench: Cultural Recognition and Prompt-Induced Collapse in Open Vision-Language Models

Suparnojit Sarkar

SETU: Optimal Event-Triggered Edge LLMs for Mental Health via Sequential Hypothesis Testing in Low-Resource Settings

Krish Bhatnagar