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Reproducibility of computational studies is a hallmark of scientific methodology. It enables researchers to build with confidence on the methods and findings of others, reuse and extend computational pipelines, and thereby drive scientific…

Replicability and reproducibility of experimental results are primary concerns in all the areas of science and IR is not an exception. Besides the problem of moving the field towards more reproducible experimental practices and protocols,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Timo Breuer , Nicola Ferro , Norbert Fuhr , Maria Maistro , Tetsuya Sakai , Philipp Schaer , Ian Soboroff

Over the past decade alongside increased focus on computational reproducibility significant efforts have been made to define reproducibility. However, these definitions provide a textual description rather than a framework. The community…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Meznah Aloqalaa , Stian Soiland-Reyes , Carole Goble

Assessment of replicability is critical to ensure the quality and rigor of scientific research. In this paper, we discuss inference and modeling principles for replicability assessment. Targeting distinct application scenarios, we propose…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-11 Yi Zhao , Xiaoquan Wen

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

This is the second part of a small-scale explorative study in an effort to assess reproducibility issues specific to scientometrics research. This effort is motivated by the desire to generate empirical data to inform debates about…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Theresa Velden , Sybille Hinze , Andrea Scharnhorst , Jesper Wiborg Schneider , Ludo Waltman

The high incidence of irreproducible research has led to urgent appeals for transparency and equitable practices in open science. For the scientific disciplines that rely on computationally intensive analyses of large data sets, a granular…

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

Reproducibility remains a central challenge in computational social science, where complex workflows, evolving software ecosystems, and inconsistent documentation hinder researchers ability to re-execute published methods. This study…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Fakhri Momeni , Sarah Sajid , Johannes Kiesel

Although a standard in natural science, reproducibility has been only episodically applied in experimental computer science. Scientific papers often present a large number of tables, plots and pictures that summarize the obtained results,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Fernando Chirigati , Rebecca Capone , Dennis Shasha , Remi Rampin , Juliana Freire

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 is a growing problem that has been extensively studied among computational researchers and within the signal processing and machine learning research community. However, with the changing landscape of signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-16 Joseph Shenouda , Waheed U. Bajwa

Reproducibility is an increasing concern in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly in the area of Deep Learning (DL). Being able to reproduce DL models is crucial for AI-based systems, as it is closely tied to various tasks like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Boyuan Chen , Mingzhi Wen , Yong Shi , Dayi Lin , Gopi Krishnan Rajbahadur , Zhen Ming , Jiang

We initiate a formal study of reproducibility in optimization. We define a quantitative measure of reproducibility of optimization procedures in the face of noisy or error-prone operations such as inexact or stochastic gradient computations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Kwangjun Ahn , Prateek Jain , Ziwei Ji , Satyen Kale , Praneeth Netrapalli , Gil I. Shamir

As software has become an integral part of scientific workflows, reproducible research practices must take it into account. In what way? Archiving source code is a necessary but insufficient condition. The ability to redeploy software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ludovic Courtès

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

In the data science courses at the University of British Columbia, we define data science as the study, development and practice of reproducible and auditable processes to obtain insight from data. While reproducibility is core to our…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Joel Ostblom , Tiffany Timbers

Reproducibility has become an intensely debated topic in NLP and ML over recent years, but no commonly accepted way of assessing reproducibility, let alone quantifying it, has so far emerged. The assumption has been that wider scientific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Anya Belz

This is the first part of a small-scale explorative study in an effort to start assessing reproducibility issues specific to scientometrics research. This effort is motivated by the desire to generate empirical data to inform debates about…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Ludo Waltman , Sybille Hinze , Andrea Scharnhorst , Jesper Wiborg Schneider , Theresa Velden

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