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Beyond sharing datasets or simulations, we believe the Recommender Systems (RS) community should share Task Environments. In this work, we propose a high-level logical architecture that will help to reason about the core components of a RS…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Andrea Barraza-Urbina , Mathieu d'Aquin

Computing devices are vital to all areas of modern life and permeate every aspect of our society. The ubiquity of computing and our reliance on it has been accelerated and amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. From education to work…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Nadya Bliss , Lawrence A. Gordon , Daniel Lopresti , Fred Schneider , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

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

Reproducibility is a crucial aspect of scientific research that involves the ability to independently replicate experimental results by analysing the same data or repeating the same experiment. Over the years, many works have been proposed…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Andrea Bianchi , Giordano d'Aloisio , Francesca Marzi , Antinisca Di Marco

Reproducibility in simulation-based computer architecture research requires coordinating artifacts like disk images, kernels, and benchmarks, but existing workflows are inconsistent. We improve gem5, an open-source simulator with over 1600…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Kunal Pai , Harshil Patel , Erin Le , Noah Krim , Mahyar Samani , Bobby R. Bruce , Jason Lowe-Power

Reproducibility is a cornerstone of scientific progress, yet its state in large language model (LLM)-based software engineering (SE) research remains poorly understood. This paper presents the first large-scale, empirical study of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mohammed Latif Siddiq , Arvin Islam-Gomes , Natalie Sekerak , Joanna C. S. Santos

AI agents have the potential to aid users on a variety of consequential tasks, including conducting scientific research. To spur the development of useful agents, we need benchmarks that are challenging, but more crucially, directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zachary S. Siegel , Sayash Kapoor , Nitya Nagdir , Benedikt Stroebl , Arvind Narayanan

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

We describe a project-based introduction to reproducible and collaborative neuroimaging analysis. Traditional teaching on neuroimaging usually consists of a series of lectures that emphasize the big picture rather than the foundations on…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2018-10-23 K. Jarrod Millman , Matthew Brett , Ross Barnowski , Jean-Baptiste Poline

Reproducibility is a key aspect for scientific advancement across disciplines, and reducing barriers for open science is a focus area for the theme of Interspeech 2023. Availability of source code is one of the indicators that facilitates…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mohammad Arvan , A. Seza Doğruöz , Natalie Parde

Research must be reproducible in order to make an impact on science and to contribute to the body of knowledge in our field. Yet studies have shown that 70% of research from academic labs cannot be reproduced. In software engineering, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Clinton Woodson , Jane Huffman Hayes , Sarah Griffioen

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

Scientific workflows have become essential for orchestrating complex computational processes across distributed resources, managing large datasets, and ensuring reproducibility in modern research. The Workflows Community Summit 2025, held…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Irene Bonati , Silvina Caino-Lores , Tainã Coleman , Sagar Dolas , Sandro Fiore , Venkatesh Kannan , Marco Verdicchio , Sean R. Wilkinson , Rafael Ferreira da Silva

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

Support teams of high-performance computing (HPC) systems often find themselves between a rock and a hard place: on one hand, they understandably administrate these large systems in a conservative way, but on the other hand, they try to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Ludovic Courtès , Ricardo Wurmus

The ubiquity of computation in modern scientific research inflicts new challenges for reproducibility. While most journals now require code and data be made available, the standards for organization, annotation, and validation remain lax,…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-07 Griffin Chure

Sharing artifacts -- such as trained models, pre-built indexes, and the code to use them -- aids in reproducibility efforts by allowing researchers to validate intermediate steps and improves the sustainability of research by allowing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Sean MacAvaney

Recommender systems have generated tremendous value for both users and businesses, drawing significant attention from academia and industry alike. However, due to practical constraints, academic research remains largely confined to offline…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan Zou , Aixin Sun

Replication crises have shaken the scientific landscape during the last decade. As potential solutions, open science practices were heavily discussed and have been implemented with varying success in different disciplines. We argue that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-05 David Schoch , Chung-hong Chan , Claudia Wagner , Arnim Bleier

Scientific peer review increasingly struggles to assess reproducibility at the scale and complexity of modern research output. Evaluating reproducibility requires reconstructing experimental dependencies, methodological choices, data flows,…