* WI-IAT 2025 Awards *



- WI-IAT 2025 Best Paper -

"Mixture of Experts Approaches in Dense Retrieval Tasks"
Effrosyni Sokli, Pranav Kasela, Georgios Peikos, and Gabriella Pasi


- WI-IAT 2025 Best Paper Runner-Up (2 papers) -

"Verifying Rumors via Stance-Aware Structural Modeling"
by Gibson Nkhata, Quan Mai, Uttamasha Anjally Oyshi, and Susan Gauch

"Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Model-Specific Multi-Agent Architectures for Contradiction Detection"
by Kota Shimomukai, Kaira Sekiguchi, and Yukio Ohsawa


- WI-IAT 2025 Best Student Paper -

"Contrastive Learning for Aspect Representation towards Explainable Recommendation"
by Emrul Hasan, and Chen Ding


- WI-IAT 2025 Best Industrial Paper -

"Scaling Decentralized Learning with FLock"
by Zehua Cheng, Rui Sun, Jiahao Sun, and Yike Guo


Best Paper Award





The Best Paper and Student Paper Award recognises authors of the best papers accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT '25). A paper is considered a student paper if the lead author is a student according to the information provided through the paper submission system.

Papers will be shortlisted based on reviewer scores. The Selection Panel will make a decision on the Award based on the reviewers'comments and scores and the Panel's own reading of the papers. The recipients of the Award will receive a certificate commemorating their achievement. The prize and certificate will be presented at the best paper award ceremony.


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