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MLSys Outstanding Paper Award 2025

Announced May 2025

7 of 7 papers

WinnerSource
The Hidden Bloat in Machine Learning SystemsOutstanding Paper
FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference ServingOutstanding Paper
Marconi: Prefix Caching for the Era of Hybrid LLMsHonorable Mention
COMET: Fine-grained Computation-communication Overlapping for Mixture-of-ExpertsHonorable Mention
APOLLO: SGD-like Memory, AdamW-level PerformanceHonorable Mention
LAVA: Lifetime-Aware VM Allocation with Learned Distributions and Adaptation to MispredictionsHonorable Mention
Seesaw: High-throughput LLM Inference via Model Re-shardingHonorable Mention

Source: mlsys.org/virtual/2025/awards_detail

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EditionAnnouncedWinners
2025May 20257

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

ItemWhat changed
MLSys Outstanding Paper AwardSep 25, 2026Next dateMay 2027 to May 2026
MLSys Outstanding Paper AwardSep 25, 2026New winnerAdded

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