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FOCS Best Paper Award winners by year

IEEE Computer Society (TCMF) · Paper award · usually Dec · next expected Dec 2026

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Breaking a Long-Standing Barrier: 2-ε Approximation for Steiner ForestAli Ahmadi, Iman Gholami, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi et al.2025Source ↗
Explicit Lossless Vertex ExpandersJun-Ting Hsieh, Alexander Lubotzky, Sidhanth Mohanty et al.2025Source ↗
Quasipolynomial bounds for the corners theoremMichael Jaber, Yang P. Liu, Shachar Lovett et al.2025Source ↗
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Best paper award of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), one of the two flagship theory of computing conferences.

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2025Dec 202511 months ago3

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New winnersSep 25, 20263 papers named in the 2025 edition.
Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: Best paper award of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, one of the two flagship theory of computing conferences.