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A Reproducible, Scalable Pipeline for Synthesizing Autoregressive Model Literature

Information Retrieval 2025-08-07 v1 Digital Libraries Machine Learning

Abstract

The accelerating pace of research on autoregressive generative models has produced thousands of papers, making manual literature surveys and reproduction studies increasingly impractical. We present a fully open-source, reproducible pipeline that automatically retrieves candidate documents from public repositories, filters them for relevance, extracts metadata, hyper-parameters and reported results, clusters topics, produces retrieval-augmented summaries and generates containerised scripts for re-running selected experiments. Quantitative evaluation on 50 manually-annotated papers shows F1 scores above 0.85 for relevance classification, hyper-parameter extraction and citation identification. Experiments on corpora of up to 1000 papers demonstrate near-linear scalability with eight CPU workers. Three case studies -- AWD-LSTM on WikiText-2, Transformer-XL on WikiText-103 and an autoregressive music model on the Lakh MIDI dataset -- confirm that the extracted settings support faithful reproduction, achieving test perplexities within 1--3% of the original reports.

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@article{arxiv.2508.04612,
  title  = {A Reproducible, Scalable Pipeline for Synthesizing Autoregressive Model Literature},
  author = {Faruk Alpay and Bugra Kilictas and Hamdi Alakkad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04612},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages