What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

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On August 13, 2026, the Hugging Face team published a blog announcing that they had successfully reproduced 2,200 papers from the ICML conference. This research aimed to verify the reproducibility status in the field of machine learning through large-scale reproduction efforts and to extract key experiences and findings regarding model training, evaluation, and result consistency.

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The researchers reproduced 2,200 papers from the ICML conference to verify their reproducibility. By independently reproducing the papers by strictly following the original methods, they found that a large number of results could not be successfully reproduced. This process revealed significant issues in the field of machine learning regarding experimental transparency, code sharing, and report completeness, prompting the community to reexamine academic publication standards and data management practices.