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Perspectives on Machine Learning from Psychology's Reproducibility Crisis (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: Psychology overhauled how it does research after many findings failed to repeat, and this paper translates those reforms for machine learning. It offers a short set of borrowed practices meant to help ML results hold up when others try to reproduce them.

Abstract

In the early 2010s, a crisis of reproducibility rocked the field of psychology. Following a period of reflection, the field has responded with radical reform of its scientific practices. More recently, similar questions about the reproducibility of machine learning research have also come to the fore. In this short paper, we present select ideas from psychology's reformation, translating them into relevance for a machine learning audience.

Samuel J. Bell, Onno P. Kampman
arXiv:2104.08878 · cs.LG, cs.AI · submitted Apr 18, 2021 · updated Apr 23, 2021
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