AAAI Outstanding Paper Award winners by year

AAAI · Paper award · usually Jan · next expected Jan 2027

Winners

Causal Structure Learning for Dynamical Systems with Theoretical Score AnalysisNicholas Tagliapietra, Katharina Ensinger, Christoph Zimmer et al.2026Source ↗

High-Pass Matters: Theoretical Insights and Sheaflet-Based Design for Hypergraph Neural NetworksMing Li, Yujie Fang, Dongrui Shen et al.2026Source ↗

LLM2CLIP: Powerful Language Model Unlocks Richer Cross-Modality RepresentationWeiquan Huang, Aoqi Wu, Yifan Yang et al.2026Source ↗

Model Change for Description Logic ConceptsAna Ozaki, Jandson S Ribeiro2026Source ↗

ReconVLA: Reconstructive Vision-Language-Action Model as Effective Robot PerceiverWenxuan Song, Ziyang Zhou, Han Zhao et al.2026Source ↗

About this award

Honors papers at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence that exemplify the highest standards in technical contribution and exposition, recommended during blind review.

Edition	Announced	Winners	Source
2026	Jan 202610 months ago	5

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Jan); it changes when AAAI announces one.

New winnersSep 25, 20265 papers named in the 2026 edition.

Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: Honors papers at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence that exemplify the highest standards in technical contribution and exposition, recommended during blind review.