The Wall of Wrong

Every reproduction verdict, in reverse-chronological order — REPRODUCED, PARTIAL, and WRONG. The canonical timeline of our reproduction job. Updated daily.

“WRONG” is a technical term — it means a headline numerical claim in this paper did not reproduce on our reproduction job, within published tolerance. It does not mean the paper is intentionally misleading. Authors have the right of reply, prominently. See methodology →

Sibling corpus views: /drivers (every reproduction script), /skipped (papers we deliberately did not reproduce), /validator (C1/C2 gates), /legal/retractions (historical false positives).

50 verdicts
Friday, May 15
PENDINGconf —
BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
· NAACL 2019 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #b522a4a7-3bf9-4134-a085-11f88c0242f2 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Searching for MobileNetV3
· ICCV 2019 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #926e1673-437b-447e-9f44-76339bfc50ad →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
· arXiv preprint · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #074d8c16-4f0f-46e3-a29a-41b99d271943 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter
· NeurIPS 2019 EMC^2 Workshop · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #48d12fe7-4255-474f-b6de-b5b7e15ad297 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Mistral 7B
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #1443722c-e65d-4154-a3ac-03f76b55df10 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
· COLM 2024 · cs.LG
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Evidence: job #014fa02f-a714-48b5-a8da-45137749dd8b →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Stable LM 2 1.6B Technical Report
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #0025dbdf-99ba-4d60-ab41-cafb511594a6 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #55abc116-6e50-473a-85e8-76b3b69e46f1 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
MiniCPM: Unveiling the Potential of Small Language Models with Scalable Training Strategies
· COLM 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #6bce556a-498b-48be-a9e9-49195f54e1d5 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #58aae606-be57-47bf-a5a7-039fcbee3357 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #e1b8d2df-e39e-4104-92f1-382cf768c8e6 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Qwen2.5 Technical Report
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #58824325-3a3e-47f2-8802-305bf66ed9d6 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
2 OLMo 2 Furious
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #60f64123-f4a9-4c58-af04-49f09be8a958 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
· arXiv 2025 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #8466b2f1-25b6-44b9-9f36-7fb4df494670 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big — Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
· arXiv 2025 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #372e6c77-520e-4b45-872a-117914aea7c5 →No reply yetOpen paper →
Thursday, May 14
PENDINGconf —
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
· CVPR 2016 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #665acc4b-36c0-4983-96ad-062abcf151b6 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks
· ICML 2019 · cs.LG
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Evidence: job #cb39b59c-7830-4638-bf46-70351de50eba →No reply yetOpen paper →
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XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
· NeurIPS 2019 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #84d63b3c-34f4-4431-8b9f-ee88013406b7 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks
· EMNLP 2019 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #268d5d4c-a413-44bc-8b0d-0961853e2026 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations
· ICLR 2020 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #afeb8751-d2e2-4715-8894-0212ee77c18c →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
· JMLR 2020 · cs.LG
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Evidence: job #feb8e705-9ee6-447d-996d-59b11640d120 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension
· ACL 2020 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #b50b798e-6162-447f-a132-fece39f31b00 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators
· ICLR 2020 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #1f3f931f-9111-4219-9174-463a16fae342 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices
· ACL 2020 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #ce4160be-1ada-41f5-84ac-5eca01b2bab0 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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DeBERTa: Decoding-enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention
· ICLR 2021 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #5b886e85-05d7-42a4-bf85-47e40ba21d64 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences
· NeurIPS 2020 · cs.LG
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Evidence: job #54887802-d5bf-438f-80a1-a85abc794423 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
· ICLR 2021 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #6d9acf6e-3ce2-4867-b24e-45dc0c13f5e6 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation Learning With Noisy Text Supervision
· ICML 2021 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #6fa6d49c-3d66-4b5c-9f4d-91e41aaa5616 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
· ICML 2021 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #1ef1a9e6-3e00-4ac4-b3d3-fdaa5e554655 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
· ICCV 2021 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #4fd89fa3-455e-44a7-bbfb-e6e9babada69 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
· ICLR 2022 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #ed4c2625-4c44-4b9d-8120-7355d231a777 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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DeBERTaV3: Improving DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style Pre-Training with Gradient-Disentangled Embedding Sharing
· ICLR 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #e35cb267-b959-4799-8ff8-1c3cef746b69 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Swin Transformer V2: Scaling Up Capacity and Resolution
· CVPR 2022 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #053e2375-e645-4658-995f-7a2101e6e23f →No reply yetOpen paper →
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A ConvNet for the 2020s
· CVPR 2022 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #a074c2d1-2c3a-4f13-9d8d-98e42f30355c →No reply yetOpen paper →
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OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
· arXiv 2022 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #363402be-d180-4a57-87b7-0d584de3d263 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
· arXiv 2022 · cs.LG
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Evidence: job #edfedfec-812a-45ac-a96e-595fb4318d3e →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
· arXiv 2022 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #ef84e4f5-038d-4751-83c7-8ca4bb190a00 →No reply yetOpen paper →
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Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
· arXiv preprint (Whisper) · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #7d7f7cc6-84a7-4555-8b6d-b8a7ceaad6c9 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models
· ICML 2023 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #b63b21bb-60a8-4ebf-ad49-cd7b6cce1b2d →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling
· ICML 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #86abe450-d6a2-4e6f-9471-a34fd8a93c6b →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
· TMLR 2024 · cs.CV
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Evidence: job #a5e105cf-b60f-4476-97ef-f3abcfb79d6d →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
StarCoder: may the source be with you!
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #1b31953a-79fd-4fdf-a215-2cc810173690 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
· arXiv preprint · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #2b5541bc-95cf-4d4b-b5b3-46c1f51bfe39 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #8e5b0bcf-edb9-49f3-9120-b3ff5ee82535 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #815bf082-1823-4700-89eb-058593956a8b →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
The Falcon Series of Open Language Models
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #a107ec9c-b38a-41b6-8551-26051b787d2e →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #8a552848-b38a-4fe9-b558-f4d6cfd8eb6a →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence
· arXiv 2024 · cs.SE
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Evidence: job #320f79f8-87ac-4496-b210-ba0d8f36131c →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #4dce19e8-ae7a-4477-bd6b-8ec4c03522b4 →No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf —
Qwen2 Technical Report
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
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Evidence: job #0473085c-4d11-46bd-a8f3-32e846bcbc8f →No reply yetOpen paper →