Background: Software Package Registries (SPRs) are an integral part of the software supply
chain. These collaborative platforms unite contributors, users, and code for streamlined …

Open model developers have emerged as key actors in the political economy of artificial
intelligence (AI), but we still have a limited understanding of collaborative practices in the …

Hugging Face (HF) has established itself as a crucial platform for the development and
sharing of machine learning (ML) models. This repository mining study, which delves into …

The ICT sector, responsible for 2% of global carbon emissions and significant energy
consumption, is under scrutiny calling for methodologies and tools to design and develop …

The availability of vast amounts of publicly accessible data of source code and the advances
in modern language models, coupled with increasing computational resources, have led to …

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

Current research in the computer vision field mainly focuses on improving Deep Learning
(DL) correctness and inference time performance. However, there is still little work on the …

The latest advancements in machine learning, specifically in foundation models, are
revolutionizing the frontiers of existing software engineering (SE) processes. This is a bi …

The ubiquity of large-scale Pre-Trained Models (PTMs) is on the rise, sparking interest in
model hubs, and dedicated platforms for hosting PTMs. Despite this trend, a comprehensive …

The proliferation of Machine Learning (ML) models and their open-source implementations
has transformed Artificial Intelligence research and applications. Platforms like Hugging …