{"id":15470,"date":"2020-05-15T09:17:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T09:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/?p=15470"},"modified":"2021-03-28T01:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T01:36:56","slug":"code-comes-to-arxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/code-comes-to-arxiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Comes to Arxiv"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15470\" class=\"elementor elementor-15470\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-adcee36 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"adcee36\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2029243\" data-id=\"2029243\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-974b7a3 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"974b7a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Open Knowledge for the People<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1aca2ad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1aca2ad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We are very familiar with the open source movement as coders and its phenomenal success has been entirely transforming our planet.<\/p><p>In the last decade we have seen open source software activity skyrocket and even at commercial level open source alternatives have been replacing proprietary products with a close development environment. This is obviously the direction to go for computer science but we are now seeing more synergies than computer science.<\/p><p>Open Science works with the same philosophy and dynamics as Open Source, but it covers all things science. Another term Open Research or Open Scholarship are more common in social and human sciences as well as art domains.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3c15e48 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3c15e48\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9b041bd\" data-id=\"9b041bd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b3fdc5 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8b3fdc5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Papers with Code<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-27a8a86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"27a8a86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>If you are interested in Machine Learning and AI, you might already know Papers with Code, an Open Machine Learning platform that hosts Machine Learning papers with code and evaluation tables, <a href=\"https:\/\/paperswithcode.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about page here<\/a>.<\/p><p>This might seem as a no brainer to share Open Computer Science Research with a convenient showcase platform but as we are still de-learning our old ways of hoarding knowledge it took some time for more traditional domains and entities to follow suit.<\/p><p>If you are active or interested in Machine Learning definitely check out the papers shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/paperswithcode.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Papers with Code<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ab39fd3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ab39fd3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1444\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.56.47-paperswithcode.com-5b345efbaf3a-Custom.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-15482\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.56.47-paperswithcode.com-5b345efbaf3a-Custom.png 1444w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.56.47-paperswithcode.com-5b345efbaf3a-Custom-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.56.47-paperswithcode.com-5b345efbaf3a-Custom-1024x606.png 1024w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.56.47-paperswithcode.com-5b345efbaf3a-Custom-768x455.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1444px) 100vw, 1444px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Papers With Code is an Existing Platform that Supports Open Machine Learning and Hosts ML Papers with Code<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d3b5fb9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d3b5fb9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b886c8c\" data-id=\"b886c8c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-84a6fdd elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"84a6fdd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Arxiv.org<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3123901 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3123901\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Arxiv on the other hand is a an open-access archive and free distribution service for scholarly articles and research results founded by Cornell University.<\/p><p>Common domains of edge-cutting papers that it hosts are:<\/p><ul><li>physics,<\/li><li>mathematics,<\/li><li>computer science,<\/li><li>quantitative biology,<\/li><li>quantitative finance,<\/li><li>statistics,<\/li><li>electrical engineering<\/li><li>economics<\/li><\/ul><p>If you check out <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arxiv.org<\/a> each field has very interesting sub-categories and specializations. For instance, these are the sub-topics of Computer Science:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-551d52f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"551d52f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Artificial Intelligence;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computation and Language;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computational Complexity;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computational Engineering,\u00a0<\/li><li>Finance and Science;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computational Geometry;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computer Science and Game Theory;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition;\u00a0<\/li><li>Computers and Society;\u00a0<\/li><li>Cryptography and Security;\u00a0<\/li><li>Data Structures and Algorithms;\u00a0<\/li><li>Databases;\u00a0<\/li><li>Digital Libraries;\u00a0<\/li><li>Discrete Mathematics;\u00a0<\/li><li>Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing;\u00a0<\/li><li>Emerging Technologies;\u00a0<\/li><li>Formal Languages and Automata Theory;\u00a0<\/li><li>General Literature;\u00a0<\/li><li>Graphics;\u00a0<\/li><li>Hardware Architecture;\u00a0<\/li><li>Human-Computer Interaction;\u00a0<\/li><li>Information Retrieval;\u00a0<\/li><li>Information Theory;\u00a0<\/li><li>Logic in Computer Science;\u00a0<\/li><li>Machine Learning;\u00a0<\/li><li>Mathematical Software;\u00a0<\/li><li>Multiagent Systems;\u00a0<\/li><li>Multimedia;\u00a0<\/li><li>Networking and Internet Architecture;\u00a0<\/li><li>Neural and Evolutionary Computing;\u00a0<\/li><li>Numerical Analysis;\u00a0<\/li><li>Operating Systems;\u00a0<\/li><li>Other Computer Science;\u00a0<\/li><li>Performance;\u00a0<\/li><li>Programming Languages;\u00a0<\/li><li>Robotics;\u00a0<\/li><li>Social and Information Networks;\u00a0<\/li><li>Software Engineering;\u00a0<\/li><li>Sound;\u00a0<\/li><li>Symbolic Computation;\u00a0<\/li><li>Systems and Control<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-107d018 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"107d018\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Papers on Arxiv do go through some moderation and you have to be endorsed by an Arxiv publisher to be able to publish on Arxiv at first place. However, Arxiv papers are not peer-reviewed. This has some implications, which are not necessarily positive or negative:<\/p><ul><li>Arxiv papers can be faster than traditional research papers since there isn&#8217;t the same amount of rigorous reviewing steps.<\/li><li>This also means they can have more mistakes than traditional papers<\/li><li>Arxiv papers are open to public for free. This means knowledge is shared freely without the paywalls people hit via traditional academia resources.<\/li><li>Arxiv papers get lots of public recognition and people can quickly start improving them, working on them or building on them.<\/li><li>Arxiv can be considered as a preliminary route before publishing through the traditional channels. Arxiv doesn&#8217;t cancel the opportunity for publishing a more complete research paper later but it rather enables a fast and quick feedback and free usage.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1d9ddd1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1d9ddd1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-39d441e\" data-id=\"39d441e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-140962a elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"140962a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Arxiv with Code<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d515f0a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d515f0a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Now, the news is that as of early October 2020, Arxiv implemented a code section in collaboration with &#8220;Papers with Code&#8221;. This means scientists and researchers can conveniently add the code involved in their paper directly on a Code Tab that&#8217;s added in the paper&#8217;s page.<\/p><p>This step might seem trivial to some people but it&#8217;s actually very big deal as it enables and encourages more and open sharing in terms of code.<\/p><p>This kind of practical innovation boosts overall activity and the quality of results in long term. We have been seeing it happen with open source work. Today, open source software reached a mind-blowing level.<\/p><p>For example, if you go to this qualifying paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2008.00951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Encoding in Style: a StyleGAN Encoder for Image-to-Image Translation<\/a>, you can see that under the code tab its code is published and can be directly accessible through its Github link.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b77d0c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b77d0c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1729\" height=\"1095\" src=\"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.53.15-arxiv.org-c052eadd1f5a.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-15479\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.53.15-arxiv.org-c052eadd1f5a.png 1729w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.53.15-arxiv.org-c052eadd1f5a-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.53.15-arxiv.org-c052eadd1f5a-1024x649.png 1024w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.53.15-arxiv.org-c052eadd1f5a-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/2020-10-13-18.53.15-arxiv.org-c052eadd1f5a-1536x973.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1729px) 100vw, 1729px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">ample Paper Showing Official Code Repository Under New Arxiv Code Tab<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a81df12 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a81df12\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This is incredible not only for CS or AI papers but papers in all fields and branches since coding is becoming a major enabler and amplifier of intellectual work. As more and more research is expected to include some form of code work in it this is a wise move from Cornell&#8217;s non-profit organization.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7a56daa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7a56daa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-398333a\" data-id=\"398333a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4ea596 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f4ea596\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Conclusion<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-104df5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"104df5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Arxiv&#8217;s move will not only make it easier to share research code but it will also make it easier to re-apply the work, experiment the same results, contribute to the existing work and come up with improvements in a more efficient fashion that hasn&#8217;t existed before.<\/p><p>Also, authors of papers could have been less reluctant to share the full code work due to restrictions before especially if the domain is not directly related to computer science or software development. This new feature can encourage all the code involved in a paper to be shared conveniently.<\/p><p>Let&#8217;s hope that Open Source philosophy will continue to influence more Open Science work and research from all aspects.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Knowledge for the People We are very familiar with the open source movement as coders and its phenomenal success has been entirely transforming our planet. In the last decade we have seen open source software activity skyrocket and even at commercial level open source alternatives have been replacing proprietary products with a close development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holypython.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}