The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026, taking place from July 6 to 11 in Seoul, South Korea, features a landmark contribution from the College of Civil Engineering (CCE) at Tongji University. For the first time, a paper authored by CCE researchers has been accepted at this premier venue, which is one of the “top-tier trio” AI conferences alongside the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICLR).T