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the title is wrong. it's not every "best paper": notably all best papers before 2005 are missing for ICML.

in terms of metrics of research quality, not all conferences are equal, and "best" papers are often selected by a relatively small group of people whose decision isn't really validated too much.

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sorry, it seemed to cover most of the conferences I knew about. where would one start looking for something like older best paper awards? it seems like ICML only started giving out best paper awards since 2005

I guess it's the old truism of not being able to prove something does not exist

you can find the previous icml best paper awards by looking at the previous conference websites. for example:

http://www-ai.ijs.si/SasoDzeroski/ICML99/award.html via http://www.machinelearning.org/icml.html

in machine learning, i think the significant conferences are NIPS (http://www.nips.cc/), ICML, UAI (e.g., http://event.cwi.nl/uai2010/), and AISTATS (http://www.aistats.org/).

Agree, title is misleading, may be put up to attract eyeballs. It doesn't include few other prominent conferences also such as USENIX conferences FAST and LISA.

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