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
Evidence: job #b522a4a7-3bf9-4134-a085-11f88c0242f2No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Searching for MobileNetV3
· ICCV 2019 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #926e1673-437b-447e-9f44-76339bfc50adNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
· arXiv preprint · cs.CL
Evidence: job #074d8c16-4f0f-46e3-a29a-41b99d271943No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter
· NeurIPS 2019 EMC^2 Workshop · cs.CL
Evidence: job #48d12fe7-4255-474f-b6de-b5b7e15ad297No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Mistral 7B
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #1443722c-e65d-4154-a3ac-03f76b55df10No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
· COLM 2024 · cs.LG
Evidence: job #014fa02f-a714-48b5-a8da-45137749dd8bNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Stable LM 2 1.6B Technical Report
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #0025dbdf-99ba-4d60-ab41-cafb511594a6No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Yi: Open Foundation Models by 01.AI
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #55abc116-6e50-473a-85e8-76b3b69e46f1No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
MiniCPM: Unveiling the Potential of Small Language Models with Scalable Training Strategies
· COLM 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #6bce556a-498b-48be-a9e9-49195f54e1d5No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #58aae606-be57-47bf-a5a7-039fcbee3357No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
OLMoE: Open Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #e1b8d2df-e39e-4104-92f1-382cf768c8e6No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Qwen2.5 Technical Report
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #58824325-3a3e-47f2-8802-305bf66ed9d6No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
2 OLMo 2 Furious
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #60f64123-f4a9-4c58-af04-49f09be8a958No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
· arXiv 2025 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #8466b2f1-25b6-44b9-9f36-7fb4df494670No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
SmolLM2: When Smol Goes Big — Data-Centric Training of a Small Language Model
· arXiv 2025 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #372e6c77-520e-4b45-872a-117914aea7c5No reply yetOpen paper →
Thursday, May 14
PENDINGconf
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition
· CVPR 2016 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #665acc4b-36c0-4983-96ad-062abcf151b6No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks
· ICML 2019 · cs.LG
Evidence: job #cb39b59c-7830-4638-bf46-70351de50ebaNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
· NeurIPS 2019 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #84d63b3c-34f4-4431-8b9f-ee88013406b7No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks
· EMNLP 2019 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #268d5d4c-a413-44bc-8b0d-0961853e2026No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations
· ICLR 2020 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #afeb8751-d2e2-4715-8894-0212ee77c18cNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer
· JMLR 2020 · cs.LG
Evidence: job #feb8e705-9ee6-447d-996d-59b11640d120No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension
· ACL 2020 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #b50b798e-6162-447f-a132-fece39f31b00No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators
· ICLR 2020 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #1f3f931f-9111-4219-9174-463a16fae342No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices
· ACL 2020 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #ce4160be-1ada-41f5-84ac-5eca01b2bab0No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
DeBERTa: Decoding-enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention
· ICLR 2021 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #5b886e85-05d7-42a4-bf85-47e40ba21d64No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Big Bird: Transformers for Longer Sequences
· NeurIPS 2020 · cs.LG
Evidence: job #54887802-d5bf-438f-80a1-a85abc794423No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
· ICLR 2021 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #6d9acf6e-3ce2-4867-b24e-45dc0c13f5e6No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation Learning With Noisy Text Supervision
· ICML 2021 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #6fa6d49c-3d66-4b5c-9f4d-91e41aaa5616No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
· ICML 2021 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #1ef1a9e6-3e00-4ac4-b3d3-fdaa5e554655No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformers
· ICCV 2021 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #4fd89fa3-455e-44a7-bbfb-e6e9babada69No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
· ICLR 2022 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #ed4c2625-4c44-4b9d-8120-7355d231a777No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
DeBERTaV3: Improving DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style Pre-Training with Gradient-Disentangled Embedding Sharing
· ICLR 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #e35cb267-b959-4799-8ff8-1c3cef746b69No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Swin Transformer V2: Scaling Up Capacity and Resolution
· CVPR 2022 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #053e2375-e645-4658-995f-7a2101e6e23fNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
A ConvNet for the 2020s
· CVPR 2022 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #a074c2d1-2c3a-4f13-9d8d-98e42f30355cNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
· arXiv 2022 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #363402be-d180-4a57-87b7-0d584de3d263No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models
· arXiv 2022 · cs.LG
Evidence: job #edfedfec-812a-45ac-a96e-595fb4318d3eNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model
· arXiv 2022 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #ef84e4f5-038d-4751-83c7-8ca4bb190a00No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
· arXiv preprint (Whisper) · cs.CL
Evidence: job #7d7f7cc6-84a7-4555-8b6d-b8a7ceaad6c9No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models
· ICML 2023 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #b63b21bb-60a8-4ebf-ad49-cd7b6cce1b2dNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Pythia: A Suite for Analyzing Large Language Models Across Training and Scaling
· ICML 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #86abe450-d6a2-4e6f-9471-a34fd8a93c6bNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
· TMLR 2024 · cs.CV
Evidence: job #a5e105cf-b60f-4476-97ef-f3abcfb79d6dNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
StarCoder: may the source be with you!
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #1b31953a-79fd-4fdf-a215-2cc810173690No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
· arXiv preprint · cs.CL
Evidence: job #2b5541bc-95cf-4d4b-b5b3-46c1f51bfe39No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Code Llama: Open Foundation Models for Code
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #8e5b0bcf-edb9-49f3-9120-b3ff5ee82535No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Textbooks Are All You Need II: phi-1.5 technical report
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #815bf082-1823-4700-89eb-058593956a8bNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
The Falcon Series of Open Language Models
· arXiv 2023 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #a107ec9c-b38a-41b6-8551-26051b787d2eNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #8a552848-b38a-4fe9-b558-f4d6cfd8eb6aNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
DeepSeek-Coder: When the Large Language Model Meets Programming -- The Rise of Code Intelligence
· arXiv 2024 · cs.SE
Evidence: job #320f79f8-87ac-4496-b210-ba0d8f36131cNo reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #4dce19e8-ae7a-4477-bd6b-8ec4c03522b4No reply yetOpen paper →
PENDINGconf
Qwen2 Technical Report
· arXiv 2024 · cs.CL
Evidence: job #0473085c-4d11-46bd-a8f3-32e846bcbc8fNo reply yetOpen paper →