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Many research fields are currently reckoning with issues of poor levels of reproducibility. Some label it a "crisis", and research employing or building Machine Learning (ML) models is no exception. Issues including lack of transparency,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Harald Semmelrock , Tony Ross-Hellauer , Simone Kopeinik , Dieter Theiler , Armin Haberl , Stefan Thalmann , Dominik Kowald

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

Experimental science usually relies on laboratory procedures that, after finitely many steps, terminate with numerical reports on physical quantities. This paper argues that such procedures can be understood as algorithmic once the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Isaac Pérez Castillo

Recent reproducibility case studies have raised concerns showing that much of the deposited research has not been reproducible. One of their conclusions was that the way data repositories store research data and code cannot fully facilitate…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ana Trisovic , Philip Durbin , Tania Schlatter , Gustavo Durand , Sonia Barbosa , Danny Brooke , Mercè Crosas

For a general standardized testing algorithm designed to evaluate a specific aspect of a robot's performance, several key expectations are commonly imposed. Beyond accuracy (i.e., closeness to a typically unknown ground-truth reference) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Bowen Weng , Linda Capito , Guillermo A. Castillo , Dylan Khor

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

Due to the complexity of robotics, the reproducibility of results and experiments is one of the fundamental problems in robotics research. While the problem has been identified by the community, the approaches that address the problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Aljoscha Pörtner , Martin Hoffmann , Matthias König

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

As computational work becomes more and more integral to many aspects of scientific research, computational reproducibility has become an issue of increasing importance to computer systems researchers and domain scientists alike. Though…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Carl Boettiger

This paper introduces reproducible research, and explains its importance, benefits and challenges. Some important tools for conducting reproducible research in Transportation Research are also introduced. Moreover, the source code for…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Zuduo Zheng

Whole Tale http://wholetale.org is a web-based, open-source platform for reproducible research supporting the creation, sharing, execution, and verification of "Tales" for the scientific research community. Tales are executable research…

Software developers often submit questions to technical Q&A sites like Stack Overflow (SO) to resolve code-level problems. In practice, they include example code snippets with questions to explain the programming issues. Existing research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Saikat Mondal , Banani Roy

Current concerns about reproducibility in many research communities can be traced back to a high value placed on empirical reproducibility of the physical details of scientific experiments and observations. For example, the detailed…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Charles T. Gray , Ben Marwick

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

Building Performance Simulation (BPS) uses advanced computational and data science methods. Reproducibility, the ability to obtain the same results by using the same data and methods, is essential in BPS research to ensure the reliability…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Christian Ghiaus

Reproducibility and comparability of empirical results are at the core tenet of the scientific method in any scientific field. To ease reproducibility of empirical studies, several benchmarks in software engineering research, such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 José Campos , André Souto

Empirical science needs to be based on facts and claims that can be reproduced. This calls for replicating the studies that proclaim the claims, but practice in most fields still fails to implement this idea. When such studies emerged in…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-27 Werner A. Stahel

Background: Many published machine learning studies are irreproducible. Issues with methodology and not properly accounting for variation introduced by the algorithm themselves or their implementations are attributed as the main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Odd Erik Gundersen , Kevin Coakley , Christine Kirkpatrick , Yolanda Gil

Science reproducibility is a cornerstone feature in scientific workflows. In most cases, this has been implemented as a way to exactly reproduce the computational steps taken to reach the final results. While these steps are often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Karan Vahi , Mats Rynge , George Papadimitriou , Duncan A. Brown , Rajiv Mayani , Rafael Ferreira da Silva , Ewa Deelman , Anirban Mandal , Eric Lyons , Michael Zink

In the past decade, open science and science of science communities have initiated innovative efforts to address concerns about the reproducibility and replicability of published scientific research. In some respects, these efforts have…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Tatiana Chakravorti , Sai Dileep Koneru , Sarah Rajtmajer