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AI is having some reproducibility issues, especially reinforcement learning: https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-confronts-reproducibility-cris
by chriskanan 6y ago
AI is having some reproducibility issues, especially reinforcement learning:
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-confronts-reproducibility-crisis/ https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-confront...
In other areas of machine learning, things have gotten a lot better. A decade ago people rarely released their code or trained models. I did this for an early feature learning paper in 2010, which led to it getting a lot of citations.
What I'm more worried about is the lack of science in machine learning papers. The code reproduces the result, but the reasons for the efficacy given in the paper are spurious. I like this recent paper that pokes this issue in metric learning:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08505 https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08505
- btrettel 6y agoThanks for the links. I would consider the science issue you mention to be related. A lot of what was covered in the "verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification" course I took was basic science. The class wasn't only about software testing. Software testing was just a major tool covered in the class for the larger goal of making reliable scientific claims. What I wrote previously wasn't clear on this, so I clarified my previous comment on this point.