Many systems like autonomous vehicle fleets and drone swarms can be modeled as Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) tasks, which deal with how multiple machines can learn to collaborate, ...

The use of images in scientific papers is more popular than ever, but there have been no common standards for their publication -- until now. Images created by a plethora of high-tech instruments are ...

The ability to replicate research findings remains a mainstay of the scientific process, allowing experts to assess and challenge an evolving evidence base. But a growing body of research shows that ...

"If researchers want to build on knowledge, they should be able to replicate results to fully comprehend the research that has been done before," says Daniel J. Stekhoven, Ph.D., director of NEXUS ...

If an experiment is repeated under similar conditions, the results should be the same. In reality, the situation is often different—scientists speak of a "reproducibility crisis," which affects ...

Clarissa Carneiro, a meta scientist and currently the co-executive director at the Brazilian Reproducibility Network, experienced the reproducibility challenge firsthand. As an undergraduate student ...