What is the Impact of Releasing Code with Publications? Statistics from the Machine Learning, Robotics, and Control Communities · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2308.10008/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTWhat is the Impact of Releasing Code with Publications? Statistics from the Machine Learning, Robotics, and Control Communities — mentioned by ianm218https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738687urn:hackerpapers:mention:2308.10008:48738687Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:24:27 GMT<p>Just as a counterpoint ML and AI research has become much more reproducible over time. I feel like this is relevant because ML / AI researchers are huge power users of AI tools. Between 2016 and 2021 the share of ML/ robotics/ AI researchers being reproducible (ie contianing code and similar instructions to reproduce) doubled [1]. The major US labs have gone largely closed source (I.e. they no longer publish frontier research) but the Chinese ecosystem has incredibly reproducible code. This is field dependent obviously but I think it atleast gives reason to be optimistic. Yes people will…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2308.10008/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>eess.SY