Given a marked (infty )-category (mathcal {D}^{dagger }) (i.e. an (infty )-category equipped with a specified collection of morphisms) and a functor (F: mathcal {D}rightarrow {mathbb {B}}) with values in an (infty )-bicategory, we define , the marked colimit of F. We provide a definition of weighted colimits in (infty )-bicategories when the indexing diagram is an (infty )-category and show that they can be computed in terms of marked colimits. In the maximally marked case (mathcal {D}^{sharp }), our construction retrieves the (infty )-categorical colimit of F in the underlying (infty )-category (mathcal {B}subseteq {mathbb {B}}). In the specific case when
, the (infty )-bicategory of (infty )-categories and (mathcal {D}^{flat }) is minimally marked, we recover the definition of lax colimit of Gepner–Haugseng–Nikolaus. We show that a suitable (infty )-localization of the associated coCartesian fibration ({text {Un}}_{mathcal {D}}(F)) computes
. Our main theorem is a characterization of those functors of marked (infty )-categories ({f:mathcal {C}^{dagger } rightarrow mathcal {D}^{dagger }}) which are marked cofinal. More precisely, we provide sufficient and necessary criteria for the restriction of diagrams along f to preserve marked colimits