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While Language Models (LMs) have made significant progress in automating machine learning engineering (MLE), the acquisition of high-quality MLE training data is significantly constrained. Current MLE benchmarks suffer from low scalability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Rushi Qiang , Yuchen Zhuang , Anikait Singh , Percy Liang , Chao Zhang , Sherry Yang , Bo Dai

We explore the effectiveness of an LLM-guided query refinement paradigm for extending the usability of embedding models to challenging zero-shot search and classification tasks. Our approach refines the embedding representation of a user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ariel Gera , Shir Ashury-Tahan , Gal Bloch , Ohad Eytan , Assaf Toledo

Complex, multi-task problems have proven to be difficult to solve efficiently in a sparse-reward reinforcement learning setting. In order to be sample efficient, multi-task learning requires reuse and sharing of low-level policies. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Valerie Chen , Abhinav Gupta , Kenneth Marino

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

Explanations in Machine Learning come in many forms, but a consensus regarding their desired properties is yet to emerge. In this paper we introduce a taxonomy and a set of descriptors that can be used to characterise and systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Kacper Sokol , Peter Flach

The literature has witnessed an emerging interest in AI agents for automated assessment of scientific papers. Existing benchmarks focus primarily on the computational aspect of this task, testing agents' ability to reproduce or replicate…

Machine learning (ML)-based cyber-physical systems (CPSs) have been extensively developed to improve the print quality of additive manufacturing (AM). However, the reproducibility of these systems, as presented in published research, has…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiarui Xie , Mutahar Safdar , Andrei Mircea , Bi Cheng Zhao , Yan Lu , Hyunwoong Ko , Zhuo Yang , Yaoyao Fiona Zhao

Those seeking to reproduce a computational experiment often need to manually look at the code to see how to build necessary libraries, configure parameters, find data, and invoke the experiment; it is not automatic. Automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Samuel Grayson , Reed Milewicz , Joshua Teves , Daniel S. Katz , Darko Marinov

In recent years, the research community has raised serious questions about the reproducibility of scientific work. In particular, since many studies include some kind of computing work, reproducibility is also a technological challenge, not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Lázaro Costa , Susana Barbosa , Jácome Cunha

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

Machine learning (ML) is transforming modeling and control in the physical, engineering, and biological sciences. However, rapid development has outpaced the creation of standardized, objective benchmarks - leading to weak baselines,…

Generating low-level robot task plans from high-level natural language instructions remains a challenging problem. Although large language models have shown promising results in generating plans, the accuracy of the output remains…

Reproducibility of modeling is a problem that exists for any machine learning practitioner, whether in industry or academia. The consequences of an irreproducible model can include significant financial costs, lost time, and even loss of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Peter Sugimura , Florian Hartl

A type description is a succinct noun compound which helps human and machines to quickly grasp the informative and distinctive information of an entity. Entities in most knowledge graphs (KGs) still lack such descriptions, thus calling for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jiangjie Chen , Ao Wang , Haiyun Jiang , Suo Feng , Chenguang Li , Yanghua Xiao

Multi-task learning (MTL) is critical in real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotics, enabling simultaneous handling of diverse tasks. However, obtaining fully annotated data for all tasks is impractical due to labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Youngmin Oh , Hyung-Il Kim , Jung Uk Kim

Reproducibility is a cornerstone of science, as the replication of findings is the process through which they become knowledge. It is widely considered that many fields of science are undergoing a reproducibility crisis. This has led to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Olivier Colliot , Elina Thibeau-Sutre , Ninon Burgos

A task decomposition method for iterative learning model predictive control is presented. We consider a constrained nonlinear dynamical system and assume the availability of state-input pair datasets which solve a task T1. Our objective is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

Reproducibility crises across sciences highlight the limitations of the paper-centric review system in assessing the rigor and reproducibility of research. AI agents that autonomously design and generate large volumes of research outputs…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyan Bai , Alexander Baumgartner , Haojia Sun , Ari Holtzman , Chenhao Tan

Iterative self-improvement fine-tunes an autoregressive large language model (LLM) on reward-verified outputs generated by the LLM itself. In contrast to the empirical success of self-improvement, the theoretical foundation of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chenruo Liu , Yijun Dong , Yiqiu Shen , Qi Lei

Concept-based explanations work by mapping complex model computations to human-understandable concepts. Evaluating such explanations is very difficult, as it includes not only the quality of the induced space of possible concepts but also…

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