NeurIPS Test of Time Award winners by year
NeurIPS Foundation · Paper award · usually Nov · next expected Nov 2026
Winners
Faster R-CNN: Towards Real-Time Object Detection with Region Proposal NetworksShaoqing Ren, Kaiming He, Ross Girshick et al.2025Source ↗
About this award
Recognizes a NeurIPS paper from ten years earlier that has shaped machine learning research since. Chosen by the NeurIPS program committee and announced on the NeurIPS blog.
The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Nov); it changes when NeurIPS Foundation announces one.
1 paper named in the 2025 edition.
Now tracked: Recognizes a NeurIPS paper from ten years earlier that has shaped machine learning research since.