NeurIPS Best Paper Awards winners by year
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NeurIPS Best Paper Awards 2023
Announced Dec 11, 20236 of 6 papers
| Winner | Source | |
|---|---|---|
| Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?Outstanding main track paper | Outstanding main track paper | |
| ClimSim: A large multi-scale dataset for hybrid physics-ML climate emulationOutstanding datasets paper | Outstanding datasets paper | |
| DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT ModelsOutstanding benchmarks paper | Outstanding benchmarks paper | |
| Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward ModelMain track runner-up | Main track runner-up | |
| Privacy Auditing with One (1) Training RunOutstanding main track paper | Outstanding main track paper | |
| Scaling Data-Constrained Language ModelsMain track runner-up | Main track runner-up |
Source: blog.neurips.cc/2023/12/11/announcing-the-neurips-2023-paper-awards
About this award
Best papers and runners-up at the main machine learning conference, main and datasets tracks.
| Edition | Announced | Winners |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Nov 26, 2025 | 7 |
| 2024 | Dec 10, 2024 | 5 |
| 2023 | Dec 11, 2023 | 6 |
The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Nov or Dec); it changes when NeurIPS announces one.
| Item | What changed | |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | NeurIPS Best Paper AwardsSep 24, 2026 | Next dateNov 2025 to Nov 2026 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | NeurIPS Best Paper AwardsSep 24, 2026 | Next dateNov 2024 to Nov 2025 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | NeurIPS Best Paper AwardsSep 24, 2026 | Next dateNov 2026 to Nov 2024 |
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