Awards

Best Paper Award – Research

All in One: Multi-task Prompting for Graph Neural Networks

Xiangguo Sun, Hong Cheng, Jia Li, Bo Liu, Jihong Guan

Best Student Paper – Research

Feature-based Learning for Diverse and Privacy-Preserving Counterfactual Explanations

Vy Vo, Trung Le, Van Nguyen, He Zhao, Edwin Bonilla, Gholamreza Haffari, Dinh Phung

Best Paper Award – Applied Data Science

Improving Training Stability for Multitask Ranking Models in Recommender Systems

Jiaxi Tang, Yoel Drori, Daryl Chang, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy, Justin Gilmer, Li Wei, Xinyang Yi, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi

Test of Time Award for Research

Auto-WEKA: Combined Selection and Hyperparameter Optimization of Classification Algorithms

Chris Thornton ,Frank Hutter, Holger H. Hoos, Kevin Leyton-Brown

Test of Time Award for Applied Data Science

Ad Click Prediction: A View From the Trenches

Hugh Brendan McMahan, Gary Holt, David Sculley, Michael Young, Dietmar Ebner, Julian Grady, Lan Nie, Todd Phillips, Eugene Davydov, Daniel Golovin, Sharat Chikkerur, Dan Liu, Martin Wattenberg, Arnar Mar Hrafnkelsson, Tom Boulos, Jeremy Kubica

Outstanding Dissertation Award

On the Predictive Power of Graph Neural Networks (Weihua Hu)

Outstanding Dissertation Award – Runner Up

Characterization and Detection of Disinformation Spreading in Online Social Networks (Francesco Pierri)

Efficient and Secure Message Passing for Machine Learning (Xiaorui Liu)

Service Award

Hui Xiong

Innovation Award

Jure Leskovec

KDD Cup – 1st place

KDD Cup – 2nd place

KDD Cup – 3rd place