SIGKDD Awards

ACM SIGKDD is pleased to announce the winners of the best paper awards from the set of papers submitted to the KDD 2025 conference.

Research Track

BEST PAPER AWARD

Improving Group Robustness on Spurious Correlation via Evidential Alignment​
Wenqian Ye, Guangtao Zheng, Aidong Zhang

BEST PAPER AWARD RUNNER-UP

Monitoring Robustness and Individual Fairness​
Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Konstantin Kueffner, Kaushik Mallik, David Pape

BEST PAPER AWARD HONORABLE MENTION

SIGEM: A Simple Yet Effective Similarity Based Graph Embedding Method
Masoud Reyhani Hamedani, Jeong-Seok Oh, ​Seong-Un Cho, ​Sang-Wook Kim

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

Taming Recommendation Bias with Causal Intervention on Evolving Personal Popularity
Shiyin Tan, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Zhen Wang, Xingtong Yu, Manabu Okumura

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD RUNNER-UP

Brain Effective Connectivity Estimation via Fourier Spatiotemporal Attention
Wen Xiong, Jinduo Liu, Junzhong Ji, Fenglong Ma

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD HONORABLE MENTION

Verification of Incomplete Graph Unlearning Through Adversarial Perturbations
Kun Wu, Wendy Hui Wang

Applied Data Science Track

BEST PAPER AWARD

Evaluating Decision Rules Across Many Weak Experiments​
Winston Chou, Colin Gray, ​Nathan Kallus, Aurélien Bibaut, Simon Ejdemyr

BEST PAPER AWARD RUNNER-UP

Put Teacher in Student’s Shoes: Cross-Distillation for Ultra-compact Model Compression Framework
Maolin Wang, Jun Chu, Sicong Xie, Xiaoling Zhang, Yap Zhao, Wenliang Zhong, Xiangyu Zhao

BEST PAPER AWARD HONORABLE MENTION

Web Scale Graph Mining for Cyber Threat Intelligence​
Scott Freitas, Amir Gharib

BEST PAPER AWARD HONORABLE MENTION

VLM as Policy: Common-Law Content Moderation Framework for Short Video Platform​
Xingyu Lu, Tianke Zhang, Chang Meng, Xiaobei Wang, Jinpeng Wang, YiFan Zhang, Shisong Tang, Changyi Liu, Haojie Ding, Kaiyu Jiang, Kaiyu Tang, Bin Wen, Hai-Tao Zheng, Fan Yeng, Tingting Gao, Di Zhang, Kun Gai

Dataset and Benchmark Track

BEST PAPER AWARD

When Heterophily Meets Heterogeneity: Challenges and a New Large-Scale Graph Benchmark
Junhong Lin, Xiaojie Guo, Shuaicheng Zhang, Yada Zhu, Julian Shun

BEST PAPER AWARD RUNNER-UP

A Guide to Misinformation Detection Data and Evaluation​
Camille Thibault, Jacob-Junqi Tian, Gabrielle Peloquin-Skulski, ​Taylor Lynn Curtis, James Zhou, Florence Laflamme, Yuxiang Guan, Reihaneh Rabbany, Jean-Francois Godbout, Kellin Pelrine

BEST PAPER AWARD RUNNER-UP

HtFLlib: A Comprehensive Heterogeneous Federated Learning Library and Benchmark​
Jianqing Zhang, Xinghao Wu, Yanbing Zhou, Xiaoting Sun, Qiqi Cai, Yang Liu, Yang Hua, Zhenzhe Zheng, Jian Cao,Qiang Yang