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most citedAn Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry

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cs.SE2026

An Empirical Investigation of Pre-Trained Deep Learning Model Reuse in the Scientific Process

Nicholas M. Synovic, Karolina Ryzka, Alessandra V. Vellucci Solari +3

Deep learning has achieved recognition for its impact within natural sciences, yet the prohibitive financial and technical cost of training models from scratch inhibit adoption. Fo…

cs.SE2025

Process-based Indicators of Vulnerability Re-Introducing Code Changes: An Exploratory Case Study

Samiha Shimmi, Nicholas M. Synovic, Mona Rahimi +1

Software vulnerabilities often persist or re-emerge even after being fixed, revealing the complex interplay between code evolution and socio-technical factors. While source code me…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

What do we know about Hugging Face? A systematic literature review and quantitative validation of qualitative claims

Jason Jones, Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic +2

Background: Collaborative Software Package Registries (SPRs) are an integral part of the software supply chain. Much engineering work synthesizes SPR package into applications. Pri…

cs.SE2024

Reusing Deep Learning Models: Challenges and Directions in Software Engineering

James C. Davis, Purvish Jajal, Wenxin Jiang +3

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in many areas, including computer vision, system configuration, and question-answering. However, DNNs are expensive…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

PeaTMOSS: A Dataset and Initial Analysis of Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software

Wenxin Jiang, Jerin Yasmin, Jason Jones +6

The development and training of deep learning models have become increasingly costly and complex. Consequently, software engineers are adopting pre-trained models (PTMs) for their…

cs.CV2023

An automated approach for improving the inference latency and energy efficiency of pretrained CNNs by removing irrelevant pixels with focused convolutions

Caleb Tung, Nicholas Eliopoulos, Purvish Jajal +7

Computer vision often uses highly accurate Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but these deep learning models are associated with ever-increasing energy and computation requireme…

cs.SE2023

PeaTMOSS: Mining Pre-Trained Models in Open-Source Software

Wenxin Jiang, Jason Jones, Jerin Yasmin +6

Developing and training deep learning models is expensive, so software engineers have begun to reuse pre-trained deep learning models (PTMs) and fine-tune them for downstream tasks…

cs.SE2023

PTMTorrent: A Dataset for Mining Open-source Pre-trained Model Packages

Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Purvish Jajal +5

Due to the cost of developing and training deep learning models from scratch, machine learning engineers have begun to reuse pre-trained models (PTMs) and fine-tune them for downst…

cs.SE2023★ 4 cited

An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Reuse in the Hugging Face Deep Learning Model Registry

Wenxin Jiang, Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyatt +5

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are being adopted as components in software systems. Creating and specializing DNNs from scratch has grown increasingly difficult as state-of-the-art ar…

cs.SE2023★ 3 cited

Challenges and Practices of Deep Learning Model Reengineering: A Case Study on Computer Vision

Wenxin Jiang, Vishnu Banna, Naveen Vivek +4

Many engineering organizations are reimplementing and extending deep neural networks from the research community. We describe this process as deep learning model reengineering. Dee…

cs.SE2022★ 1 cited

Snapshot Metrics Are Not Enough: Analyzing Software Repositories with Longitudinal Metrics

Nicholas Synovic, Matt Hyatt, Rohan Sethi +11

Software metrics capture information about software development processes and products. These metrics support decision-making, e.g., in team management or dependency selection. How…