Here's a glimpse of some truly remarkable work recognized this year:
Outstanding Papers:
Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token prediction
Vaishnavh Nagarajan, Chen Wu, Charles Ding, Aditi Raghunathan
The Value of Prediction in Identifying the Worst-Off
Unai Fischer Abaigar, Christoph Kern, Juan Perdomo
Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked Diffusions
Jaeyeon Kim, Kulin Shah, Vasilis Kontonis, Sham Kakade, Sitan Chen
Score Matching with Missing Data
Josh Givens, Song Liu, Henry Reeve
CollabLLM: From Passive Responders to Active Collaborators
Shirley Wu, Michel Galley, Baolin Peng, Hao Cheng, Gavin Li, Yao Dou, Weixin Cai, James Zou, Jure Leskovec, Jianfeng Gao
Conformal Prediction as Bayesian Quadrature
Jake Snell, Thomas Griffiths
Outstanding Position Papers:
AI Safety should prioritize the Future of Work
Sanchaita Hazra, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Tuhin Chakrabarty
The AI Conference Peer Review Crisis Demands Author Feedback and Reviewer Rewards
Jaeho Kim, Yunseok Lee, Seulki Lee
See all awards and details here