The 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024) took place from 19-24 October in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The venue also played host to the 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS-2024). During the week, both conferences announced their outstanding paper award winners. The winning articles were chosen based on the reviews written during the paper selection process, nominations submitted by individual members of the programme committee, additional input solicited from outside experts, and the judgement of the programme committee chairs. Abstract: Proper losses such as cross-entropy incentivize classifiers to produce class probabilities that are well-calibrated on the training data.

The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is taking place this week in Vienna, Austria. During the opening of the conference, the outstanding paper award winners, and honourable mentions, were announced. The conference organisers also introduced a new award for this year: the test of time award. This award honours a paper from 2013/2014 that the programme chairs judge to have had a lasting impact. Abstract: How can we perform efficient inference and learning in directed probabilistic models, in the presence of continuous latent variables with intractable posterior distributions, and large datasets?