ICLR Test of Time Award winners by year
ICLR · Paper award · usually Apr · next expected Apr 2027
Winners
Continuous control with deep reinforcement learningTimothy P. Lillicrap, Jonathan J. Hunt, Alexander Pritzel et al.2026Source ↗
Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial NetworksAlec Radford, Luke Metz, Soumith Chintala2026Source ↗
About this award
Recognizes papers published at ICLR ten years earlier that have had a lasting impact on the field, selected by the ICLR program chairs.
The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Apr); it changes when ICLR announces one.
2 papers named in the 2026 edition.
Now tracked: Recognizes papers published at ICLR ten years earlier that have had a lasting impact on the field.