Announcing the Outstanding Paper Awards at ICLR 2025

Awards Committee: Cordelia Schmid, Guy Van der Broek, Jun Zhu, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Lihong Li, Luke Zettlemoyer, Natasha Jaques, Tao Yu, Yarin Gal

Selection Process

The ICLR 2025 Outstanding Paper Committee went through a two-stage selection process to identify a collection of outstanding papers and honorable mentions that showcase excellent research presented at this conference. The committee began with an initial pool of 36 papers, which were either recommended by the area chairs or received exceptional scores from reviewers. Committee members first conducted preliminary reviews to select finalists. The finalists were read by all members of the committee who ranked the papers based on factors such as theoretical insights, practical impacts, exceptional writing, and experimental rigor. The program chairs confirmed the decisions.

In total there are 3 Outstanding Paper winners, and 3 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to all the authors for their exceptional contributions to ICLR!

Outstanding Papers

• Safety Alignment Should be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep.
  Xiangyu Qi, Ashwinee Panda, Kaifeng Lyu, Xiao Ma, Subhrajit Roy, Ahmad Beirami, Prateek Mittal, Peter Henderson.
  
• Learning Dynamics of LLM Finetuning.
  Yi Ren, Danica J. Sutherland.
• AlphaEdit: Null-Space Constrained Model Editing for Language Models.
  Junfeng Fang, Houcheng Jiang, Kun Wang, Yunshan Ma, Jie Shi, Xiang Wang, Xiangnan He, Tat-Seng Chua

Honorable Mentions

• Data Shapley in One Training Run.
  Jiachen T. Wang, Prateek Mittal, Dawn Song, Ruoxi Jia.
• SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos.
  Nikhila Ravi, Valentin Gabeur, Yuan-Ting Hu, Ronghang Hu, Chaitanya Ryali, Tengyu Ma, Haitham Khedr, Roman Rädle, Chloe Rolland, Laura Gustafson, Eric Mintun, Junting Pan, Kalyan Vasudev Alwala, Nicolas Carion, Chao-Yuan Wu, Ross Girshick, Piotr Dollar, Christoph Feichtenhofer
• Faster Cascades via Speculative Decoding.
  Harikrishna Narasimhan, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Ankit Singh Rawat, Seungyeon Kim, Neha Gupta, Aditya Krishna Menon, Sanjiv Kumar.