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NeurIPS Best Paper Awards 2025

Announced Nov 26, 2025

7 of 7 papers

WinnerSource
1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching CapabilitiesBest paper
Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)Best paper
Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?Runner-up
Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-FreeBest paper
Optimal Mistake Bounds for Transductive Online LearningRunner-up
Superposition Yields Robust Neural ScalingRunner-up
Why Diffusion Models Don't Memorize: The Role of Implicit Dynamical Regularization in TrainingBest paper

Source: blog.neurips.cc/2025/11/26/announcing-the-neurips-2025-best-paper-awards

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Best papers and runners-up at the main machine learning conference, main and datasets tracks.

EditionAnnouncedWinners
2025Nov 26, 20257
2024Dec 10, 20245
2023Dec 11, 20236

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Nov or Dec); it changes when NeurIPS announces one.

ItemWhat changed
NeurIPS Best Paper AwardsSep 24, 2026Next dateNov 2025 to Nov 2026
NeurIPS Best Paper AwardsSep 24, 2026Next dateNov 2024 to Nov 2025
NeurIPS Best Paper AwardsSep 24, 2026Next dateNov 2026 to Nov 2024

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