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Awards for Best Paper and Best Student Paper are generously provide by <a href="http://www.gresearch.co.uk/">G-Research</a>.


<h2>Best Paper</h2>

Congraulations to Frederik Kunstner, Raunak Kumar, and Mark Schmidt for their paper <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/kunstner21a.html">Homeomorphic-Invariance of EM: Non-Asymptotic Convergence in KL Divergence for Exponential Families via Mirror Descent</a>.

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<h2>Best Student Paper</h2>

Congraulations to Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Iskander Azangulov, Alexander Terenin, Peter Mostowsky, Marc Deisenroth, and Nicolas Durrande for their paper <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v130/borovitskiy21a.html">Matérn Gaussian Processes on Graphs</a>.

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