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most citedAn Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management

20 citations · 31 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2026

Towards Evaluation Engineering: An Empirical Study of ML Evaluation Harnesses in the Wild

Zhimin Zhao, Zehao Wang, Abdul Ali Bangash +2

Evaluation harnesses are software systems that orchestrate model evaluation by managing model invocation, data loading, metric computation, and result reporting. Despite their crit…

cs.SE2026

On the Footprints of Reviewer Bots Feedback on Agentic Pull Requests in OSS GitHub Repositories

Syeda Kaneez Fatima, Yousuf Abrar, Abdul Rehman Tahir +3

Autonomous coding agents are reshaping software development by creating pull requests (PRs) on GitHub, referred to as agentic PRs. In parallel, the review process is also becoming…

cs.SE2026

Reliability of AI Bots Footprints in GitHub Actions CI/CD Workflows

Syed Muhammad Ashhar Shah, Sehrish Habib, Muizz Hussain +2

Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) workflows are central to modern software delivery, yet the reliability of agentic AI bots operating within these workflows remain unde…

cs.SE2026

Novice Developers Produce Larger Review Overhead for Project Maintainers while Vibe Coding

Syed Ammar Asdaque, Imran Haider, Muhammad Umar Malik +2

AI coding agents allow software developers to generate code quickly, which raises a practical question for project managers and open source maintainers: can vibe coders with less d…

cs.SE2025

The State of the SBOM Tool Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis of SPDX and CycloneDX

Zhimin Zhao, Abdul Ali Bangash, Tongxu Ge +3

Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) improve software release transparency by documenting components and dependencies, but their practical value depends on the tools that generate,…

cs.SE2025

Understanding Prompt Management in GitHub Repositories: A Call for Best Practices

Hao Li, Hicham Masri, Filipe R. Cogo +3

The rapid adoption of foundation models (e.g., large language models) has given rise to promptware, i.e., software built using natural language prompts. Effective management of pro…

cs.SE2025

On the synchronization between Hugging Face pre-trained language models and their upstream GitHub repository

Adekunle Ajibode, Abdul Ali Bangash, Oussama Ben Sghaier +2

Pre-trained language models (PTLMs) have transformed natural language processing (NLP), enabling major advances in tasks such as text generation and translation. Similar to softwar…

cs.SE2025

HAFix: History-Augmented Large Language Models for Bug Fixing

Yu Shi, Abdul Ali Bangash, Emad Fallahzadeh +2

Recent studies have explored the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on various Software Engineering (SE) tasks, such as code generation and bug fixing. However, these appr…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

Towards Semantic Versioning of Open Pre-trained Language Model Releases on Hugging Face

Adekunle Ajibode, Abdul Ali Bangash, Filipe Roseiro Cogo +2

The proliferation of open Pre-trained Language Models (PTLMs) on model registry platforms like Hugging Face (HF) presents both opportunities and challenges for companies building p…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

On the Workflows and Smells of Leaderboard Operations (LBOps): An Exploratory Study of Foundation Model Leaderboards

Zhimin Zhao, Abdul Ali Bangash, Filipe Roseiro Côgo +2

Foundation models (FM), such as large language models (LLMs), which are large-scale machine learning (ML) models, have demonstrated remarkable adaptability in various downstream so…

cs.SE2024★ 20 cited

An Empirical Study of Challenges in Machine Learning Asset Management

Zhimin Zhao, Yihao Chen, Abdul Ali Bangash +2

In machine learning (ML), efficient asset management, including ML models, datasets, algorithms, and tools, is vital for resource optimization, consistent performance, and a stream…

cs.SE2023★ 7 cited

The State of Documentation Practices of Third-party Machine Learning Models and Datasets

Ernesto Lang Oreamuno, Rohan Faiyaz Khan, Abdul Ali Bangash +2

Model stores offer third-party ML models and datasets for easy project integration, minimizing coding efforts. One might hope to find detailed specifications of these models and da…