NIPS 2016 Awards
Best paper awards
Best paper award: Aviv Tamar, Yi Wu, Garrett Thomas, Sergey Levine, Pieter Abbeel: Value Iteration Networks
Best student paper award: Rong Ge, Jason Lee, Tengyu Ma: Matrix Completion has No Spurious Local Minimum
Best demonstration: Adam Roberts · Jesse Engel · Curtis Hawthorne · Ian Simon · Elliot Waite · Sageev Oore · Natasha Jaques · Cinjon Resnick · Douglas Eck Interactive musical improvisation with Magenta
Outstanding Reviewer Awards (Sponsored by Amazon)
| Se-Young Yun | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Yair Carmon | Stanford University |
| Nicholas Foti | University of Washington |
| Jakub Marecek | IBM |
| Felix Yu | |
| Tom Claassen | Radboud University |
| Elias Bareinboim | Purdue University |
| Tom Fletcher | University of Utah |
| Brijnesh Jain | TU Bernlin |
| Xaq Pitkow | Rice University |
| Dino Oglic | University of Bonn |
| James Hensman | Lancaster University |
| Nishant Mehta | CWI |
| Matus Telgarsky | |
| Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin | KAUST |
| Alexandr Andoni | MIT |
| Daniel Holtmann-Rice |