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388 claims from 257 papers, showing 181–200 of 257

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Sparse Transfer Learning via Winning Lottery Tickets

   Mehta · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“We show that sparse sub-networks with approximately 90-95% of weights removed achieve (and often exceed) the accuracy of the original dense network in several realistic settings.”

2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Phase transitions in the q -coloring of random hypergraphs

   Gabrié, Dani, Semerjian and Zdeborová · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“Among other cases we revisit the hypergraph bicoloring problem ($q=2$) where we find that for $K=3$ and $K=4$ the colorability threshold is not given by the one-step-replica-symmetry-breaking analysis as the latter is unstable towards more levels of replica…
   2. Unchecked“We also unveil and discuss the coexistence of two different 1RSB solutions in the case of $q=2$, $K \ge 4$.”

3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Group Sparsity: The Hinge Between Filter Pruning and Decomposition for Network Compression

   Li, Gu, Christoph, Van Gool and Timofte · Lirias · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“For example, in popular network architectures with shortcut connections (e.g. ResNet), filter pruning cannot deal with the last convolutional layer in a ResBlock while the low-rank decomposition methods can.”

4. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era

   Peng, Alcaide, Anthony et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Our approach leverages a linear attention mechanism and allows us to formulate the model as either a Transformer or an RNN, thus parallelizing computations during training and maintains constant computational and memory complexity during inference.”

5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   The number of satisfying assignments of random 2‐SAT formulas

   Achlioptas, Coja‐Oghlan, Hahn‐Klimroth et al. · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“The proof is based on showing that the Belief Propagation algorithm renders the correct marginal probability that a variable is set to `true' under a uniformly random satisfying assignment.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that throughout the satisfiable phase the normalised number of satisfying assignments of a random $2$-SAT formula converges in probability to an expression predicted by the cavity method from statistical physics.”

6. Computer Science › Machine Learning and Algorithms

   The Shape of Learning Curves: a Review

   Viering and Loog · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“All in all, our review underscores that learning curves are surprisingly diverse and no universal model can be identified.”

7. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes

   Hsieh, Li, Yeh et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Second, compared to few-shot prompted LLMs, we achieve better performance using substantially smaller model sizes.”

8. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Triple descent and the two kinds of overfitting: where and why do they appear?*

   d’Ascoli, Sagun and Biroli · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“We show that this peak is implicitly regularized by the nonlinearity, which is why it only becomes salient at high noise and is weakly affected by explicit regularization.”

9. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Text Classification via Large Language Models

   Sun, Li, Li et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Remarkably, CARP yields new SOTA performances on 4 out of 5 widely-used text-classification benchmarks, 97.39 (+1.24) on SST-2, 96.40 (+0.72) on AGNews, 98.78 (+0.25) on R8 and 96.95 (+0.6) on R52, and a performance comparable to SOTA on MR (92.39 v.s. 93.3)…

10. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Convolutional Neural Network Pruning with Structural Redundancy Reduction

    Wang, Li and Wang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“We first statistically model the network pruning problem in a redundancy reduction perspective and find that pruning in the layer(s) with the most structural redundancy outperforms pruning the least important filters across all layers.”

11. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    On the empirical time complexity of random 3-SAT at the phase transition

    Mu and Hoos · International Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“An analogous analysis of three complete, DPLL-based solvers - kcnfs, march_hi and march_br - clearly indicates exponential scaling of median running time.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, exponential scaling is witnessed for these DPLL-based solvers when solving only satisfiable and only unsatisfiable instances, and the respective scaling models for each solver differ mostly by a constant factor.”

12. Computer Science › Advanced Graph Theory Research

    Computing Small Unit-Distance Graphs with Chromatic Number 5

    Heule · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Supported · 71%“Our method, which is based on clausal proof minimization, allowed us to compute several 553-vertex unit-distance graphs with chromatic number 5, while the smallest published unit-distance graph with chromatic number 5 has 1581 vertices.”

13. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Evaluation of Large Language Models as Solution Generators in Complex Optimization

    Huang, Wu, Zhou et al. · IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, despite their significant computational power, LLMs still significantly underperform in numerical optimization tasks, largely due to a mismatch between the problem domain and their processing capabilities.”

14. Computer Science › Machine Learning and Data Classification

    Techniques for mitigating overfitting in machine learning: a comprehensive review, taxonomy, and practical guide

    Sheppert · Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“Overfitting mitigation benefits from coordinated choices in data, model capacity, optimization, and evaluation.”

15. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Phase transitions of the typical algorithmic complexity of the random satisfiability problem studied with linear programming

    Schawe, Bleim and Hartmann · PLoS ONE · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“For the present random $K$-SAT problem we have investigated numerous structural properties also exhibiting clear transitions, but they appear not be correlated to the here observed easy-hard transitions.”

16. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The Freezing Threshold for k -Colourings of a Random Graph

    Molloy · Journal of the ACM · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that for random graphs with density above r f k , almost every colouring is such that a linear number of vertices are frozen, meaning that their colour cannot be changed by a sequence of alterations whereby we change the colours of o ( n ) vertices…
    2. Unchecked“When the density is below r f k , then almost every colouring is such that every vertex can be changed by a sequence of alterations where we change O (log n ) vertices at a time.”

17. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A new upper bound for 3-SAT

    Dı́az, Kirousis, Mitsche and Pérez‐Giménez · RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“We show that a randomly chosen $3$-CNF formula over $n$ variables with clauses-to-variables ratio at least $4.4898$ is asymptotically almost surely unsatisfiable.”

18. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The replica symmetric phase of random constraint satisfaction problems

    Coja-Oghlan, Kapetanopoulos and Müller · Combinatorics Probability Computing · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper we prove these physics predictions for a broad class of random constraint satisfaction problems.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, we obtain contiguity results that have implications on Bayesian inference tasks, a subject that has received a great deal of interest recently (e.g., [Banks et al., COLT 2016]).”

19. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    LinkBERT: Pretraining Language Models with Document Links

    Yasunaga, Leskovec and Liang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We show that LinkBERT outperforms BERT on various downstream tasks across two domains: the general domain (pretrained on Wikipedia with hyperlinks) and biomedical domain (pretrained on PubMed with citation links).”
    2. Unchecked“LinkBERT is especially effective for multi-hop reasoning and few-shot QA (+5% absolute improvement on HotpotQA and TriviaQA), and our biomedical LinkBERT sets new states of the art on various BioNLP tasks (+7% on BioASQ and USMLE).”

20. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    HRank: Filter Pruning using High-Rank Feature Map

    Lin, Ji, Wang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our HRank is inspired by the discovery that the average rank of multiple feature maps generated by a single filter is always the same, regardless of the number of image batches CNNs receive.”
    2. Unchecked“For example, with ResNet-110, we achieve a 58.2%-FLOPs reduction by removing 59.2% of the parameters, with only a small loss of 0.14% in top-1 accuracy on CIFAR-10.”
    3. Unchecked“With Res-50, we achieve a 43.8%-FLOPs reduction by removing 36.7% of the parameters, with only a loss of 1.17% in the top-1 accuracy on ImageNet.”