Best Paper Award

FlowEqProp: Training Flow Matching Models with Gradient Equilibrium Propagation.
Alex Gower (Nokia Bell Labs and University of Cambridge)

Student Poster Competition Winner

Saliency-Informed Sparsity For Gating Deep Convolutional Feature Space.
Shira Goldhaber-Gordon (Johns Hopkins University), Akwasi Akwaboah (Johns Hopkins University), Aaron Sampson (Johns Hopkins University), Stefan Mihalas (Allen Institute), Ernst Niebur (Johns Hopkins University), Andreas Andreou (Johns Hopkins University), Ralph Etienne-Cummings (Johns Hopkins University).

Student Travel Award

Kazi Ramisa Rifa, University of Kentucky