Best Paper
Exact Recovery of Sparsely-Used Dictionaries
- Daniel Spielman, Huan Wang and John Wright
Runner up best paper
Distributed Learning, Communication Complexity and Privacy
- Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Shai Fine and Yishay Mansour
Mark Fulk Best Student Paper
Sponsored by Sprinter and the Machine Learning Journal
Online Optimization with Gradual Variations
- Chao-Kai Chiang, Tianbao Yang, Chia-Jung Lee, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Chi-Jen Lu, Rong Jin and Shenghuo Zhu
Active Learning Using Smooth Relative Regret Approximations with Applications
- Nir Ailon, Ron Begleiter and Esther Ezra