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AI Research moves towards open and reproducible science

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Documentation practices in top AI conferences improved markedly from 2014 to 2024, with papers sharing both code and data rising from 11 percent to 64 percent.

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The paper examines all publications from five leading AI conferences across a full decade, tracking seven specific documentation variables in 56,800 papers. It reports a nearly sixfold increase in joint code and data sharing and, by applying a prior empirical mapping, estimates that actual reproducibility rose from 28 percent to 64 percent. These gains began before reproducibility checklists were introduced at the venues. A sympathetic reader would care because higher documentation rates make published claims easier to verify and build upon in a field where many results have historically been hard to reproduce.

Core claim

In the period 2014 to 2024, documentation practices have improved; papers sharing both code and data increased nearly sixfold, from 11% to 64%. Building on empirical reproducibility rates from a prior study, we estimate - inferred from documentation practices, not direct testing - that reproducibility increased from 28% in 2014 to 64% in 2024. Improvements in documentation practices predate the introduction of reproducibility checklists, suggesting these changes reflect a broader movement toward open science rather than a direct response to formal requirements.

What carries the argument

Seven reproducibility variables, quality-assured and applied to every paper in the 56,800-publication dataset from five major AI conferences.

If this is right

  • Reproducibility in published AI work has roughly doubled over the decade according to the documentation proxy.
  • The shift toward better documentation began independently of formal checklists at the conferences.
  • A larger fraction of papers now supply the code and data needed for others to verify results.
  • Community norms rather than venue mandates appear to be the primary driver of the observed changes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Continued improvement in documentation could raise the baseline reliability of new AI claims still further.
  • Similar long-term tracking in other fields might reveal whether the same open-science trend is occurring elsewhere.
  • If the proxy relationship holds, venues could use these variables to monitor progress without waiting for full reproduction studies.

Load-bearing premise

The seven selected documentation variables are valid and sufficient proxies for reproducibility, and the empirical mapping taken from the prior study applies uniformly across the entire decade-long dataset.

What would settle it

A direct reproduction attempt on a random sample of papers from both 2014 and 2024 that measures how closely the observed success rates match the documentation-based estimates.

read the original abstract

The reproducibility crisis has directed the AI research community toward improving documentation practices. Several studies have identified methodological issues, and in response, the most impactful venues in the field have introduced reproducibility checklists. We seek to understand whether documentation practices have changed over time by assessing all published papers at five leading AI conferences over the past decade. Seven reproducibility variables were identified, quality-assured and used to analyse 56 800 publications. Our analysis reveals that in the period 2014 to 2024, documentation practices have improved; papers sharing both code and data increased nearly sixfold, from 11% to 64% Building on empirical reproducibility rates from a prior study, we estimate - inferred from documentation practices, not direct testing - that reproducibility increased from 28% in 2014 to 64% in 2024. Improvements in documentation practices predate the introduction of reproducibility checklists, suggesting these changes reflect a broader movement toward open science rather than a direct response to formal requirements.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript examines documentation practices in 56,800 papers from five leading AI conferences (2014–2024). It identifies seven reproducibility variables, reports that papers sharing both code and data rose from 11% to 64%, and estimates—by applying empirical rates from a prior study—that overall reproducibility increased from 28% in 2014 to 64% in 2024. The improvements are argued to predate formal reproducibility checklists and to reflect a broader shift toward open science.

Significance. If the proxy mapping from the seven documentation variables to reproducibility rates is valid and stable over time and across venues, the work supplies the largest-scale temporal assessment to date of open-science trends in AI. The corpus size and the explicit caveat that the 28–64% figures are inferred rather than directly audited are notable strengths.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Methods: No description is given of how the seven reproducibility variables were chosen, how quality assurance was performed on the 56,800-paper corpus, or the exact procedure used to convert the observed documentation statistics into the 28%–64% reproducibility estimates. The mapping is taken from a prior study, yet no verification of its applicability to the current dataset or temporal window is supplied.
  2. [Results] Results / Abstract: The headline reproducibility trend (28% to 64%) is load-bearing for the central claim yet rests on an unvalidated proxy relationship. No internal check—such as a subsample reproducibility audit, temporal-stability test, or sensitivity analysis—is reported to confirm that the documentation-to-reproducibility mapping remains constant across the decade or the five conferences.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The phrase 'papers sharing both code and data increased nearly sixfold, from 11% to 64%' should clarify whether the percentages refer to the full corpus or to a filtered subset of papers that could plausibly share artifacts.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and for acknowledging the scale of the corpus and the explicit caveats in our estimates. We address the two major comments point by point below. Where the manuscript lacks sufficient detail, we will revise accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods: No description is given of how the seven reproducibility variables were chosen, how quality assurance was performed on the 56,800-paper corpus, or the exact procedure used to convert the observed documentation statistics into the 28%–64% reproducibility estimates. The mapping is taken from a prior study, yet no verification of its applicability to the current dataset or temporal window is supplied.

    Authors: We will add a new subsection in the Methods that (a) explains the selection of the seven variables by reference to prior reproducibility taxonomies in the AI literature, (b) details the multi-stage quality-assurance protocol (including inter-annotator agreement metrics and sampling strategy) applied to the full corpus, and (c) states the precise linear mapping from the observed documentation rates to the reproducibility percentages taken from the cited prior study. We will also insert a short paragraph discussing the assumptions underlying the applicability of that mapping to the 2014–2024 window and the five conferences. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results / Abstract: The headline reproducibility trend (28% to 64%) is load-bearing for the central claim yet rests on an unvalidated proxy relationship. No internal check—such as a subsample reproducibility audit, temporal-stability test, or sensitivity analysis—is reported to confirm that the documentation-to-reproducibility mapping remains constant across the decade or the five conferences.

    Authors: We agree that the proxy relationship is central and will therefore add a sensitivity analysis in the Results section that varies the mapping coefficients within the confidence intervals reported by the prior study and recomputes the 2014–2024 trend. We will also report per-conference and per-year breakdowns to allow readers to assess stability. A full subsample audit that directly tests reproducibility on hundreds of papers is outside the scope of the present observational study; we will strengthen the existing caveats in the abstract and discussion rather than claim such an audit was performed. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity in the derivation chain

full rationale

The paper directly counts seven documentation variables across its new 56,800-paper corpus and reports the observed trends (e.g., code+data sharing rising from 11% to 64%). The reproducibility percentages are obtained by applying an external empirical mapping taken from a prior study; this constitutes an inference step rather than any reduction of the measured quantities to themselves by definition, fitting, or self-citation chain. No equations or steps in the provided text exhibit the enumerated circularity patterns.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central reproducibility estimate rests on an external prior study for the documentation-to-reproducibility mapping; the seven variables are treated as given indicators without independent validation shown in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • reproducibility mapping parameters
    The conversion of observed documentation rates into the 28%–64% reproducibility figures depends on empirical rates taken from a prior study.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The seven reproducibility variables are appropriate and sufficient measures of documentation quality
    The entire analysis is built on these variables being valid proxies.

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