# Hamed Karimi wins ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award for 2016 optimization paper

> Original title: Hamed Karimi wins ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award

- Source: Amazon Science
- Published: 2026-11-05T14:57:23.000Z
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- Original: https://www.amazon.science/blog/hamed-karimi-wins-ecml-pkdd-test-of-time-award

## Summary

Amazon senior applied scientist Hamed Karimi and colleagues won the 2026 ECML PKDD Test-of-Time Award for their 2016 paper on linear convergence under the Polyak–Łojasiewicz condition. The paper showed that a 1963 inequality can prove that standard machine learning training methods converge quickly even when many different solutions work equally well.