Papers

Work you can read, check, and rerun.

ReScience C Special Journal Issue

Our reproducibility studies, produced as part of a learning course, have been accepted as a special issue in collaboration with ReScience C and are now in editing ahead of publication.

Accepted into NeurIPS FMTS

A Structural Load Model Cannot Predict the Effect of a Conservation Appeal

Shows that a structural load forecasting model cannot separate out the drop in demand caused by a public conservation appeal.

Accepted into NeurIPS AIDaR

Cartographic Generalization Exposes Non-Uniform Structure Loss in Downsampled Dermoscopy Benchmarks

Uses cartographic generalization metrics to measure how downsampling dermoscopy benchmarks strips away lesion structure unevenly across diagnostic classes.

Accepted into NeurIPS TAE

Contaminated Ancestors: Seven Ways Our Own Evaluation Protocol Nearly Told Us the Wrong Thing

Walks through seven flaws in our own evaluation protocol, from ancestral sequence leakage to train-test contamination, that each gave us a wrong answer before being caught.

Accepted into NeurIPS Creative AI

Restored Lines: A Model Finds the Poet’s Hardest Line Breaks and Declines to Write Them

Uses token-level predictive entropy to find the hardest line breaks in a poem and has the model stop short of writing them.

Accepted into NeurIPS Creative AI

The Dead Ear: A Language Model’s Inherited Accent Is an Archive, Not an Author

Measures the meter and word choice a language model inherits from its pretraining corpus and argues the resulting voice is recall of that corpus rather than writing of its own.

Accepted into NeurIPS RPS

When Does a Fourier Neural Operator Fail? Spectral Diagnostics for Low-Rank Surrogates of Reaction–Diffusion

Derives spectral diagnostics that predict when mode truncation makes a Fourier neural operator surrogate lose accuracy on reaction-diffusion systems.

Accepted into NeurIPS AI4ChipDesign

Who’s to Blame? Causal Responsibility Attribution for Macro Placement

Uses causal responsibility attribution to work out which individual macro placements are responsible for later wirelength and timing problems.