The Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of the Politecnico di Milano won the best paper award at the 34th edition of NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) which is today the international conference of reference for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The last edition in attendance in the pre-COVID era, in 2019, had about 14,000 participants including academic researchers and personnel from the industrial world, and received the attention of major international media, including New York Times, Washington Post, Wired. In 2020, the articles sent by the entire international scientific community to NeurIPS were about 9500, of which about 1900 were chosen for publication.

Politecnico di Milano obtained 4 articles accepted at NeurIPS, proving to be one of the most vital Italian centers for research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Among these, the article entitled "No-Regret Learning Dynamics for Extensive-Form Correlated Equilibrium" by Andrea Celli, Alberto Marchesi, Gabriele Farina, Nicola Gatti from the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics received the award as the best article. This work has provided a crucial contribution to solving sequential decision-making problems between rational agents, such as the distributed coordination of people to allow them to use shared resources in the most efficient way. In the last 20 years, no Italian university or research center has won this award.