Publications

@article{Foalem2025MLLogging,

title = {Logging Requirement for Continuous Auditing of Responsible Machine Learning-based Applications},

author = {Patrick Loic Foalem and Leuson Da Silva and Foutse Khomh and Heng Li and Ettore Merlo},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17851, Preprint},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-025-10656-8},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {30},

number = {97},

pages = {1--37},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {Logging, MLOps, Observability},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{majidi2025MLOpsMaintenance,

title = {An Efficient Model Maintenance Approach for MLOps},

author = {Forough Majidi and Foutse Khomh and Heng Li and Amin Nikanjam},

url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.04657, Preprint},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-025-10744-9},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) (accepted)},

keywords = {MLOps, Model Maintenance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{QIN2025107876,

title = {Representation-based fairness evaluation and bias correction robustness assessment in neural networks},

author = {Qiaolin Qin and Benjamin Djian and Ettore Merlo and Heng Li and Sébastien Gambs},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107876},

year  = {2025},

date = {2025-01-01},

urldate = {2025-01-01},

journal = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},

volume = {188},

number = {107876},

pages = {1–14},

keywords = {Fairness, MLOps},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Foalem2024MLLogging,

title = {Studying Logging Practice in Machine Learning-based Applications},

author = {Patrick Loic Foalem and Foutse Khomh and Heng Li},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04234.pdf},

doi = {10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107450},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},

volume = {170},

pages = {1–17},

publisher = {Elsevier},

keywords = {Logging, MLOps, Observability},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Ghadesi2024MLException,

title = {What Causes Exceptions in Machine Learning Applications? Mining Machine Learning-Related Stack Traces on Stack Overflow},

author = {Amin Ghadesi and Maxime Lamothe and Heng Li},

url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.12857, Preprint

https://github.com/mooselab/ML_StackTrace, Data

},

doi = {10.1007/s10664-024-10499-9},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},

volume = {29},

number = {107},

pages = {37 pages},

publisher = {Springer},

keywords = {MLOps, Technical Q&A},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Liao2021DNNPerformance,

title = {An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hyperparameter Tuning and Model Optimization on the Performance Properties of Deep Neural Networks},

author = {Lizhi Liao and Heng Li and Weiyi Shang and Lei Ma},

doi = {10.1145/3506695},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

urldate = {2022-01-01},

journal = {ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)},

volume = {31},

number = {3},

pages = {1–40},

publisher = {ACM},

keywords = {MLOps, Performance},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}