MPI researcher receives Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026

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Anthony W. Lin — Max Planck Fellow at MPI-SWS and CS professor at RPTU in Kaiserslautern — has received an Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026, one of the flagship conferences in machine learning, for his work on “Transformers are Inherently Succinct” (https://openreview.net/forum?id=Yxz92UuPLQ)!

This is an incredible achievement — only two out of over 5,000 accepted ICLR papers have received such an award this year!