Important Dates
(FINAL) Paper Submission
June 1, 2026
(EXTENDED) Work-in-Progress papers
JuLY 10, 2026
Workshops
June 30, 2026
Notification
July 1, 2026
Early Bird
July 31, 2026
Camera Ready
July 17, 2026
Conference
September 9 – 11, 2026
Workshop 1 - Robotics in Industrial Settings
Instructors: Jorge S. S. Júnior and Amanda Pina Amorim.
Description:
In this workshop, you will learn how robotics can be integrated into industrial settings. The location chosen to give you an insight into this is the UC Factory Lab, which aims to provide hands-on learning in an environment that replicates real industrial conditions. First, you will be given an overview of the Laboratory’s three main areas: Robotics, Virtual Control and Augmented Reality, and Production Cells and Intralogistics. Next, you will take part in a short practical session on how to programme Universal Robots’ collaborative robotic arms.
Date: 11 September 2026.
Time: 09:00 – 10:30.
Location: UC Factory Lab, DEQ, R. Luís Reis dos Santos, 3030-790 Coimbra.
Important: There will be no transport to or from the UC Factory Lab. Participants are responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from the workshop location.
Workshop 2 - Fine-tuning LLMs 101
Instructor: Daniel Voigt Godoy
Description:
In this short workshop, you’ll get to fine-tune a language model on a custom dataset. We’ll cover the main challenges and the building blocks of the fine-tuning procedure: model quantization, parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and low-rank adapters (LoRA), chat templates and dataset formatting, and training arguments such as gradient checkpointing, gradient accumulation, sequence length, and optimizers. The workshop will be conducted using Google Colab, together with BitsAndBytes and several Hugging Face libraries, including PEFT, Datasets, and Transformers.
Date: 11 September 2026.
Time: 14:00 – 15:30.
Location: Room Aqua (Quinta das Lágrimas Hotel).
Important: Participants only need a Google account to access Google Colab. No software installation or prior setup is required.
GitHub repository: https://github.com/dvgodoy/FineTuningLLMs101_Controlo_2026