Known-answer construction for agent-written analysis code
ML4PS 2026, NeurIPS workshopAccepted 10 October 2026. Workshop on 11 December 2026.
Accepted
Papers
Papers and preprints
I publish as Mark C. Johnson. Two workshop papers are accepted for December 2026. Everything else here is a preprint or a submission, and it's labeled that way.
Two workshop papers accepted. Preprints are not peer reviewed. No journal publications.
Accepted workshop papers
The Anchoring Property: What One Clean Biomedical Catalogue Reveals About Provenance in Three Other Domains
AIDaR @ NeurIPS 2026Short paper on tracing published values back to their sources. Accepted as a poster, 29 September 2026. Non-archival.
Accepted
Submitted and preprints
Tests Passed on the Wrong Python: Incomplete Cache Keys in GitHub Actions
arXiv, cs.SESubmitted 27 September 2026. Not announced yet. The code and data are public now.
Submitted
Can an odour-induced saltiness effect be expressed in grams of salt?
Salt conversion audit · ZenodoSixteen studies and a proposed reporting standard. I misread an umami column as saltiness, so I published v2.1 and put the correction first on the record page.
Preprint
Integrating Licensed Odor Threshold Data into a Flavor Pairing Engine
Licensed threshold data · Zenodo191 of 224 odorants matched, and the integration surfaced unit mismatches that had to be fixed before the data could be used.
Preprint
Unsupervised Recovery of Food Taxonomy from Volatile Compound Profiles
Food taxonomy from volatiles · ZenodoA UMAP analysis of 450 ingredients.
Preprint
Reviewing and ID
Reviewer
Reviewed for AIDaR @ NeurIPS 2026 after a nomination from the program committee. Also volunteered and reviewed for ML4PS 2026.
ORCID
0009-0003-1877-4477. I publish as Mark C. Johnson.