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      The need for open source software in machine learning

      Sonnenburg, Soren; Braun, Mikio L.; Ong, Cheng Soon; Bengio, Samy; Bottou, Leon; Holmes, Geoffrey; LeCunn, Yann; Muller, Klaus-Robert; Pereira, Fernando; Rasmussen, Carl Edward; Ratsch, Gunnar; Scholkopf, Bernhard; Smola, Alexander; Vincent, Pascal; Weston, Jason; Williamson, Robert C.
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      Sonnenburg, S., Braun, M.L., Ong, C.S., Bengio, S., Bottou, L.,..., Williamson, R.C. (2007). The need for open source software in machine learning. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 8(Oct), 2443-2466.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/3928
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      Open source tools have recently reached a level of maturity which makes them suitable for building large-scale real-world systems. At the same time, the field of machine learning has developed a large body of powerful learning algorithms for diverse applications. However, the true potential of these methods is not used, since existing implementations are not openly shared, resulting in software with low usability, and weak interoperability. We argue that this situation can be significantly improved by increasing incentives for researchers to publish their software under an open source model. Additionally, we outline the problems authors are faced with when trying to publish algorithmic implementations of machine learning methods. We believe that a resource of peer reviewed software accompanied by short articles would be highly valuable to both the machine learning and the general scientific community.
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      2007
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      Journal Article
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      JMLR
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      This article has been published in the journal: Journal of Machine Learning Research. © 2007 The authors.
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