ICML Outstanding Paper Awards winners by year

ICML · Paper award · usually Jul · next expected Jul 2027

Winners

The Flexibility Trap: Rethinking the Value of Arbitrary Order in Diffusion Language ModelsOutstanding paperSource ↗

High-Accuracy Sampling for Diffusion Models and Log-Concave DistributionsOutstanding paperSource ↗

Position: The Alignment Community is Unintentionally Building a Censor's ToolkitOutstanding position paperSource ↗

The Obfuscation Atlas: Mapping Where Honesty Emerges in RLVR with Deception ProbesHonorable mentionSource ↗

Motion Attribution for Video GenerationHonorable mentionSource ↗

How much can language models memorize?Honorable mentionSource ↗

A Random Matrix Perspective on the Consistency of Diffusion ModelsHonorable mentionSource ↗

To Grok Grokking: Provable Grokking in Ridge RegressionHonorable mentionSource ↗

Position: AI/ML Deepfake Research is Misaligned with AI Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery (AIG-NCII)Position paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Train for the Worst, Plan for the Best: Understanding Token Ordering in Masked DiffusionsOutstanding paperSource ↗

Conformal Prediction as Bayesian QuadratureOutstanding paperSource ↗

Score Matching with Missing DataOutstanding paperSource ↗

The Value of Prediction in Identifying the Worst-OffOutstanding paperSource ↗

Roll the dice & look before you leap: Going beyond the creative limits of next-token predictionOutstanding paperSource ↗

CollabLLM: From Passive Responders to Active CollaboratorsOutstanding paperSource ↗

Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful AnswersOutstanding paperSource ↗

Information Complexity of Stochastic Convex Optimization: Applications to Generalization, Memorization, and TracingOutstanding paperSource ↗

Position: Measure Dataset Diversity, Don't Just Claim ItOutstanding paperSource ↗

VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video GenerationOutstanding paperSource ↗

Position: Considerations for Differentially Private Learning with Large-Scale Public PretrainingOutstanding paperSource ↗

Discrete Diffusion Modeling by Estimating the Ratios of the Data DistributionOutstanding paperSource ↗

Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image SynthesisOutstanding paperSource ↗

Stealing part of a production language modelOutstanding paperSource ↗

Genie: Generative Interactive EnvironmentsOutstanding paperSource ↗

Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte CarloOutstanding paperSource ↗

About this award

Outstanding papers and honorable mentions at the International Conference on Machine Learning.

Edition	Announced	Winners
2026	Jul 5, 20264 months ago	9
2025	Jul 20251 year ago	6
2024	Jul 20242 years ago	10

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

Date announcedSep 25, 2026Next edition expected Jul 2027 (was Jul 2026).

New winnersSep 25, 2026Editions 2024 to 2026 loaded with 25 winners; the 2026 edition named 9 papers.

Award detailsSep 25, 2026Now filed as paper award (was research).