neurips 2019 reproducibility challenge

ablation study of a neurips 2019 paper, submitted to the official challenge

  • Course project for 2019 Fall COMP 551 Applied Machine Learning
  • We conducted extensive ablation study of this paper to examine its claims’ soundness and its model’s robustness
  • We identified certain drawbacks that undermine the reproducibility of this paper
  • Our report, despite being rejected for final journal publication, is well appreciated by reviewers
  • Project report availble here