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In the rapidly evolving field of cybersecurity, ensuring the reproducibility of AI-driven research is critical to maintaining the reliability and integrity of security systems. This paper addresses the reproducibility crisis within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Richard H. Moulton , Gary A. McCully , John D. Hastings

Autonomous research systems capable of generating complete scientific manuscripts have advanced rapidly, yet robust and realistic evaluation frameworks have failed to keep pace. To bridge this gap, we introduce MLReplicate, an end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sasi Kiran Gaddipati , Diyana Muhammed , Farhana Keya , Gollam Rabby , Sören Auer

We present ReproducedPapers.org: an open online repository for teaching and structuring machine learning reproducibility. We evaluate doing a reproduction project among students and the added value of an online reproduction repository among…

The review process is essential to ensure the quality of publications. Recently, the increase of submissions for top venues in machine learning and NLP has caused a problem of excessive burden on reviewers and has often caused concerns…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Ana Sabina Uban , Cornelia Caragea

Reproduction studies reported in NLP provide individual data points which in combination indicate worryingly low levels of reproducibility in the field. Because each reproduction study reports quantitative conclusions based on its own,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anya Belz

Reproducibility should be a cornerstone of scientific research and is a growing concern among the scientific community and the public. Understanding how to design services and tools that support documentation, preservation and sharing is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Sebastian S. Feger , Sünje Dallmeier-Tiessen , Albrecht Schmidt , Paweł W. Woźniak

In this work, we explain the setup for a technical, graduate-level course on Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence (FACT-AI) at the University of Amsterdam, which teaches FACT-AI concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Ana Lucic , Maurits Bleeker , Sami Jullien , Samarth Bhargav , Maarten de Rijke

A common concern in experimental research is the auditability and reproducibility of experiments. Experiments are usually designed, provisioned, managed, and analyzed by diverse teams of specialists (e.g., researchers, technicians and…

In this paper, we discuss the approaches we took and trade-offs involved in making a paper on a conceptual topic in pattern recognition research fully reproducible. We discuss our definition of reproducibility, the tools used, how the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-28 Jesse H. Krijthe , Marco Loog

The drive for reproducibility in the computational sciences has provoked discussion and effort across a broad range of perspectives: technological, legislative/policy, education, and publishing. Discussion on these topics is not new, but…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-10-10 Daniel G. Hurley , Joseph Cursons , Matthew Faria , David M. Budden , Vijay Rajagopal , Edmund J. Crampin

Frontier AI safety claims - published assertions that a highly capable general-purpose model is below a threshold of concern, adequately mitigated, or suitable for release - increasingly shape model deployment, governance, and public trust.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Varad Vishwarupe , Nigel Shadbolt , Marina Jirotka , Ivan Flechais

Understanding generalization in deep learning is arguably one of the most important questions in deep learning. Deep learning has been successfully adopted to a large number of problems ranging from pattern recognition to complex decision…

The trend toward open science increases the pressure on authors to provide access to the source code and data they used to compute the results reported in their scientific papers. Since sharing materials reproducibly is challenging, several…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Markus Konkol , Daniel Nüst , Laura Goulier

Recent studies have shown that the majority of published computational models in systems biology and physiology are not repeatable or reproducible. There are a variety of reasons for this. One of the most likely reasons is that given how…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-13 Herbert M. Sauro

Results of simulation studies evaluating the performance of statistical methods are often considered actionable and thus can have a major impact on the way empirical research is implemented. However, so far there is limited evidence about…

Addressing the reproducibility crisis in artificial intelligence through the validation of reported experimental results is a challenging task. It necessitates either the reimplementation of techniques or a meticulous assessment of papers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 György Kovács , Attila Fazekas

In recent years, significant progress has been made in solving challenging problems across various domains using deep reinforcement learning (RL). Reproducing existing work and accurately judging the improvements offered by novel methods is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Peter Henderson , Riashat Islam , Philip Bachman , Joelle Pineau , Doina Precup , David Meger

Deep learning (DL) techniques have gained significant popularity among software engineering (SE) researchers in recent years. This is because they can often solve many SE challenges without enormous manual feature engineering effort and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chao Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Xiaohu Yang

Large-scale replication studies like the Reproducibility Project: Psychology (RP:P) provide invaluable systematic data on scientific replicability, but most analyses and interpretations of the data fail to agree on the definition of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-08 Kenneth Hung , William Fithian

To develop rigorous knowledge about ML models -- and the systems in which they are embedded -- we need reliable measurements. But reliable measurement is fundamentally challenging, and touches on issues of reproducibility, scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 A. Feder Cooper