# What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML

DevFeed: [What We Learned by Reproducing 2,200 papers from ICML](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-we-learned-by-reproducing-2-200-papers-from-icml-7271.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/icml-2026-open-reproductions>)

Author: Abubakar Abid

Published: 2026-08-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [AI research agents](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-research-agents.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [Human-AI evaluation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/human-ai-evaluation.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/codex.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-research.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [codex](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/codex.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/research.md>), [science](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/science.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports lessons from the ICML 2026 Open Reproductions challenge, in which the community used coding agents to reproduce research papers at scale. It discusses how agents can read papers, write code, run experiments, and report findings, while examining the continuing role of human oversight in AI research reproducibility.

## Source excerpt

We're on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.