Best papers awards

The best paper awards for the workshop are sponsored by the APL Machine Learning journal.

The 2026 awards were granted ex aequo to the following papers (authors who presented and received the award are highlighted):

• Random Attention Memory for Online Generative Reservoir Computing: a Preliminary Study
  Luca Pedrelli (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Stefano Dettori (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna); Valentina Colla (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)

• Randomized Ising Models for Network Quantification: Novel Applications for Unconventional Computing
  Maria Grazia Berni (University of Pisa); Alessio Micheli (University of Pisa); Marco Podda (University of Pisa); Domenico Tortorella (University of Pisa)