Open Source
Open-source initiatives are democratizing access to and accelerating advancements in various scientific and technological fields by fostering collaboration and reproducibility. Current research focuses on developing open-source tools and datasets across diverse domains, including AI models (like LLMs and specialized models for tasks such as medical diagnosis or autonomous driving), simulation environments for robotics and network analysis, and benchmarks for evaluating model performance. This open approach significantly benefits the scientific community by enabling wider participation, facilitating rigorous validation, and accelerating the translation of research into practical applications across numerous sectors.
Papers
Public-private funding models in open source software development: A case study on scikit-learn
Cailean Osborne
Open-Source AI-based SE Tools: Opportunities and Challenges of Collaborative Software Learning
Zhihao Lin, Wei Ma, Tao Lin, Yaowen Zheng, Jingquan Ge, Jun Wang, Jacques Klein, Tegawende Bissyande, Yang Liu, Li Li
LocalRQA: From Generating Data to Locally Training, Testing, and Deploying Retrieval-Augmented QA Systems
Xiao Yu, Yunan Lu, Zhou Yu
TRUCE: Private Benchmarking to Prevent Contamination and Improve Comparative Evaluation of LLMs
Tanmay Rajore, Nishanth Chandran, Sunayana Sitaram, Divya Gupta, Rahul Sharma, Kashish Mittal, Manohar Swaminathan
Is Open-Source There Yet? A Comparative Study on Commercial and Open-Source LLMs in Their Ability to Label Chest X-Ray Reports
Felix J. Dorfner, Liv Jürgensen, Leonhard Donle, Fares Al Mohamad, Tobias R. Bodenmann, Mason C. Cleveland, Felix Busch, Lisa C. Adams, James Sato, Thomas Schultz, Albert E. Kim, Jameson Merkow, Keno K. Bressem, Christopher P. Bridge
Major TOM: Expandable Datasets for Earth Observation
Alistair Francis, Mikolaj Czerkawski
Open-Source, Cost-Aware Kinematically Feasible Planning for Mobile and Surface Robotics
Steve Macenski, Matthew Booker, Joshua Wallace
pyAKI -- An Open Source Solution to Automated KDIGO classification
Christian Porschen, Jan Ernsting, Paul Brauckmann, Raphael Weiss, Till Würdemann, Hendrik Booke, Wida Amini, Ludwig Maidowski, Benjamin Risse, Tim Hahn, Thilo von Groote