A Reproducible, Scalable Pipeline for Synthesizing Autoregressive Model Literature
By: Faruk Alpay, Bugra Kilictas, Hamdi Alakkad
Potential Business Impact:
Automates finding and re-running AI research.
Plain English Summary
Scientists have created a tool that can read and understand thousands of research papers about AI that write like humans. This means researchers can quickly find the most important information and even rerun experiments from those papers to check their results. This will speed up AI development, leading to new and better AI tools much faster.
The accelerating pace of research on autoregressive generative models has produced thousands of papers, making manual literature surveys and reproduction studies increasingly impractical. We present a fully open-source, reproducible pipeline that automatically retrieves candidate documents from public repositories, filters them for relevance, extracts metadata, hyper-parameters and reported results, clusters topics, produces retrieval-augmented summaries and generates containerised scripts for re-running selected experiments. Quantitative evaluation on 50 manually-annotated papers shows F1 scores above 0.85 for relevance classification, hyper-parameter extraction and citation identification. Experiments on corpora of up to 1000 papers demonstrate near-linear scalability with eight CPU workers. Three case studies -- AWD-LSTM on WikiText-2, Transformer-XL on WikiText-103 and an autoregressive music model on the Lakh MIDI dataset -- confirm that the extracted settings support faithful reproduction, achieving test perplexities within 1--3% of the original reports.
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