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What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

L5 · ResearcherResearchHugging Face Blog· 8/13/2026

Provides unprecedented large-scale analysis of ML paper reproducibility using AI agents, crucial for research integrity assessment.

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Hugging Face organized a hackathon where 1,200+ participants used coding agents to reproduce 2,226 ICML 2026 papers, revealing insights about AI research reproducibility.

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