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Ascertaining the feasibility of independent falsification or repetition of published results is vital to the scientific process, and replication or reproduction experiments are routinely performed in many disciplines. Unfortunately, such…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Dimitri Braininger , Wolfgang Mauerer , Stefanie Scherzinger

Research is facing a reproducibility crisis, in which the results and findings of many studies are difficult or even impossible to reproduce. This is also the case in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) research. Often,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Harald Semmelrock , Simone Kopeinik , Dieter Theiler , Tony Ross-Hellauer , Dominik Kowald

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

A reproducibility crisis has been reported in science, but the extent to which it affects AI research is not yet fully understood. Therefore, we performed a systematic replication study including 30 highly cited AI studies relying on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Odd Erik Gundersen , Odd Cappelen , Martin Mølnå , Nicklas Grimstad Nilsen

There has been increasing concern within the machine learning community that we are in a reproducibility crisis. As many have begun to work on this problem, all work we are aware of treat the issue of reproducibility as an intrinsic binary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-21 Edward Raff

Research reproducibility - i.e., rerunning analyses on original data to replicate the results - is paramount for guaranteeing scientific validity. However, reproducibility is often very challenging, especially in research fields where…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Micol Spitale , Rebecca Stower , Elmira Yadollahi , Maria Teresa Parreira , Nida Itrat Abbasi , Iolanda Leite , Hatice Gunes

In 2015 the Open Science Collaboration (OSC) (Nosek et al 2015) published a highly influential paper which claimed that a large fraction of published results in the psychological sciences were not reproducible. In this article we review…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-18 Anthony Almudevar , Jacob Almudevar

The replicability crisis in the social, behavioral, and data sciences has led to the formulation of algorithm frameworks for replicability -- i.e., a requirement that an algorithm produce identical outputs (with high probability) when run…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Eric Eaton , Marcel Hussing , Michael Kearns , Jessica Sorrell

Objective: Reproducibility is a core tenet of scientific research. A reproducible study is one where the results can be recreated by different investigators in different circumstances using the same methodology and materials. Unfortunately,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-17 Aaron Bowers , Shelby Rauh , Drayton Rorah , Daniel Tritz , Lance Frye , Matt Vassar

Computational reproducibility, the possibility for independent researchers to exactly reproduce published empirical results, is fundamental to science. Despite its importance, the proportion of research articles aiming for reproducibility…

Reproducibility is a cornerstone of scientific research, enabling independent verification and validation of empirical findings. The topic gained prominence in fields such as psychology and medicine, where concerns about non - replicable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Adil Mukhtar , Michael Hadwiger , Franz Wotawa , Gerald Schweiger

Machine learning is facing a 'reproducibility crisis' where a significant number of works report failures when attempting to reproduce previously published results. We evaluate the sources of reproducibility failures using a meta-analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Bowman Brown , Laurent Itti

Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that…

Applications · Statistics 2026-04-30 Berna Devezer , Erkan O. Buzbas

Rapid advances in computing technology over the past few decades have spurred two extraordinary phenomena in science: large-scale and high-throughput data collection coupled with the creation and implementation of complex statistical…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2020-07-27 Roger D. Peng , Stephanie C. Hicks

Reproducibility is essential to reliable scientific discovery in high-throughput experiments. In this work we propose a unified approach to measure the reproducibility of findings identified from replicate experiments and identify putative…

Applications · Statistics 2011-10-24 Qunhua Li , James B. Brown , Haiyan Huang , Peter J. Bickel

Computational reproducibility is essential for the credibility of scientific findings, particularly in the social sciences, where findings often inform real-world decisions. Manual reproducibility assessment is costly and time-consuming, as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Linhao Zhang , Tong Xia , Jinghua Piao , Lizhen Cui , Yong Li

Recently, much attention has been focused on the replicability of scientific results, causing scientists, statisticians, and journal editors to examine closely their methodologies and publishing criteria. Experimental particle physicists…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-05-07 Thomas R. Junk , Louis Lyons

Background: Machine learning algorithms are widely used to predict defect prone software components. In this literature, computational experiments are the main means of evaluation, and the credibility of results depends on experimental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Giuseppe Destefanis , Leila Yousefi , Martin Shepperd , Allan Tucker , Stephen Swift , Steve Counsell , Mahir Arzoky

Reproducibility is an important feature of science; experiments are retested, and analyses are repeated. Trust in the findings increases when consistent results are achieved. Despite the importance of reproducibility, significant work is…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Akhil Pandey Akella , Hamed Alhoori , David Koop

With the recognized crisis of credibility in scientific research, there is a growth of reproducibility studies in computer science, and although existing surveys have reviewed reproducibility from various perspectives, especially very…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-19 José Armando Hernández , Miguel Colom