How A “Crazy Idea” Changed The Way We Do Machine Learning: NeurIPS Test Of Time Award Winner

HOGWILD! Wild as it sounds, the paper that goes by the same name was supposed to be an art project by Christopher Re, an associate professor at Stanford AI Lab, and his peers. Little did they know that the paper would change the way we do machine learning. Ten years later, it even bagged the prestigious “Test of Time” award at the latest NeurIPS conference.  To identify the most impactful paper in the past decade, the conference organisers selected a list of 12 papers published at NeurIPS over the years -- NeurIPS 2009, NeurIPS 2010, NeurIPS 2011 -- with the highest numbers of citations since their publication. They also collected data about the recent citations counts for each of these papers by aggregating citations that these papers received in the past two years at NeurIPS, ICM