Research Lab Showcase Repository
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A Research Lab Showcase Repository is a software repository by a research lab that publishes their code, models, and implementations associated with its published research.
- Context:
- It can contain code implementations, algorithms, and models directly related to published research from a specific lab or institution.
- It can serve as a resource for other researchers, practitioners, and students to understand, reproduce, and build upon the lab's findings.
- It can emphasize a wide range of topics or research areas, reflecting the breadth of the lab's focus rather than in-depth development of a single system.
- It can use documentation formats such as Jupyter Notebooks, which facilitate interactive learning and exploratory research.
- It can often be maintained by institutional support, like a dedicated research lab or department, ensuring long-term usability and relevance.
- It can differ from Open Source Repositorys by limiting community contributions and instead focusing on sharing pre-existing code.
- It can support reproducibility by offering code that matches or complements experimental setups described in publications.
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- Example(s):
- DeepMind's Showcase Repo that provides code and models supporting research publications on diverse AI topics, such as protein folding and reinforcement learning.
- OpenAI's Research Codebase that includes code to replicate key findings in natural language processing and generative models.
- Google Brain’s GitHub Repository that hosts models and training procedures for machine learning projects like image classification and neural architecture search.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- A Production Code Repository, which emphasizes deployable, maintainable software suitable for end-users rather than reference code.
- A Collaborative Open Source Repository, which invites community contributions and aims for collective software development rather than a one-way dissemination.
- A Personal Research Repository, which is typically less formally organized and may not be maintained or updated regularly.
- A Software Library Repository, which focuses on reusable code components or packages for general-purpose use, without direct connection to research publications.
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- See: Open Source Repository, Reproducibility in Machine Learning, Documentation Standards, Educational Resource Repository