SIGKDD Best Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track) winners by year

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SIGKDD Best Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track) 2025

Announced Aug 2025

4 of 4 papers

Winner	Category	Source
Evaluating Decision Rules Across Many Weak ExperimentsBest Paper	Best Paper
Put Teacher in Student's Shoes: Cross-Distillation for Ultra-compact Model Compression FrameworkRunner-Up	Runner-Up
Web Scale Graph Mining for Cyber Threat IntelligenceHonorable Mention	Honorable Mention
VLM as Policy: Common-Law Content Moderation Framework for Short Video PlatformHonorable Mention	Honorable Mention

Source: kdd.org/awards/view/2025-sigkdd-best-paper-award-winners

About this award

Edition	Announced	Winners
2025	Aug 2025	4

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

Date	Item	What changed
Sep 25, 2026	SIGKDD Best Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track)Sep 25, 2026	Next dateAug 2027 to Aug 2026
Sep 25, 2026	SIGKDD Best Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track)Sep 25, 2026	New winnerAdded

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SIGKDD Best Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track) 2025

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