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342 claims from 225 papers, showing 181–200 of 225

  1. 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).”
  2. 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.”
  3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Deep Ensembling with No Overhead for either Training or Testing: The All-Round Blessings of Dynamic Sparsity

    Liu, Chen, Atashgahi et al. · TU/e Research Portal · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Despite being an ensemble method, FreeTickets has even fewer parameters and training FLOPs than a single dense model.”
    2. Unchecked“FreeTickets surpasses the dense baseline in all the following criteria: prediction accuracy, uncertainty estimation, out-of-distribution (OoD) robustness, as well as efficiency for both training and inference.”
    3. Unchecked“Impressively, FreeTickets outperforms the naive deep ensemble with ResNet50 on ImageNet using around only 1/5 of the training FLOPs required by the latter.”
  4. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Towards Compact ConvNets via Structure-Sparsity Regularized Filter Pruning

    Lin, Ji, Li, Deng and Li · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“AULM follows the principle of ADMM and alternates between promoting the structured sparsity of CNNs and optimizing the recognition loss, which leads to a very efficient solver (2.5x to the most recent work that directly solves the group sparsity-based regula…
  5. Computer Science › AI-based Problem Solving and Planning

    Reasoning with Language Model is Planning with World Model

    Hao, Gu, Ma et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“RAP on LLAMA-33B surpasses CoT on GPT-4 with 33% relative improvement in a plan generation setting.”
  6. Computer Science

    DOI 10.1016/j.jml.2025.104650

    DOI 10.1016/j.jml.2025.104650: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“For cognitive scientists, the challenge demonstrated that robust linguistic generalizations can be learned by models trained on a human-scale dataset, though this is not yet achieved through cognitively plausible mechanisms.”
  7. Computer Science

    arXiv 2104.11832

    arXiv 2104.11832: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“However, we can find "relaxed" winning tickets at 50%-70% sparsity that maintain 99% of the full accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“However, the highest sparsity we can achieve for ViLT is far lower than LXMERT and UNITER (30% vs. 70%).”
  8. Computer Science

    arXiv 2002.05398

    arXiv 2002.05398: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“The ensemble mean forecasts obtained from these four approaches all beat the unperturbed neural network forecasts, with the retraining method yielding the highest improvement.”
    2. Unchecked“However, the skill of the neural network forecasts is systematically lower than that of state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction models.”
  9. Computer Science

    arXiv 2103.05524

    arXiv 2103.05524: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Using methods from statistical physics, we derive a precise asymptotic expression for the train and test error achieved by random feature models trained to classify such data, which is valid for any convex loss function.”
    2. Unchecked“We study in detail how the data structure affects the double descent curve, and show that in the over-parametrized regime, its impact is greater for logistic loss than for mean-squared loss: the easier the task, the wider the gap in performance at the advant…
  10. Computer Science

    arXiv 2107.06916

    arXiv 2107.06916: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“For example, our DCFF derives a compact VGGNet-16 with only 72.77M FLOPs and 1.06M parameters while reaching top-1 accuracy of 93.47% on CIFAR-10.”
  11. Computer Science

    arXiv 2103.05127

    arXiv 2103.05127: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Model complexity of deep learning can be categorized into expressive capacity and effective model complexity.”
  12. Computer Science

    Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

    Betley, Tan, Warncke et al. · ICML 2025 (PMLR 267) · 2025 · arXiv 2502.17424

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    1. Unchecked“In our experiment, a model is finetuned to output insecure code without disclosing this to the user. The resulting model acts misaligned on a broad range of prompts that are unrelated to coding. It asserts that humans should be enslaved by AI, gives maliciou…
  13. Computer Science

    arXiv 2305.12524

    arXiv 2305.12524: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“We found that GPT-4's capabilities to solve these problems are unparalleled, achieving an accuracy of 51% with Program-of-Thoughts Prompting.”
    2. Unchecked“All the existing open-sourced models are below 15%, barely surpassing the random-guess baseline.”
  14. Computer Science

    arXiv 2212.08061

    arXiv 2212.08061: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“We find that zero-shot CoT reasoning in sensitive domains significantly increases a model's likelihood to produce harmful or undesirable output, with trends holding across different prompt formats and model variants.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, we show that harmful CoTs increase with model size, but decrease with improved instruction following.”
  15. Computer Science

    arXiv 2206.08896

    arXiv 2206.08896: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“These examples then help to bootstrap training a new conditional language model that can output the right walker for a particular terrain.”
  16. Computer Science

    Schur Number Five

    Heule · AAAI 2018 · 2017 · arXiv 1711.08076

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    1. Unchecked“We obtained the solution, n = 160, by encoding the problem into propositional logic and applying massively parallel satisfiability solving techniques on the resulting formula.”
  17. Computer Science

    New ways to multiply 3 x 3-matrices

    Heule, Kauers and Seidl · 2019 · arXiv 1905.10192

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    1. Unchecked“In this article, we extend this list considerably by providing more than 13 000 new and mutually inequivalent schemes for multiplying 3 x 3-matrices using 23 multiplications.”
  18. Computer Science

    DOI 10.1016/j.tcs.2019.04.015

    DOI 10.1016/j.tcs.2019.04.015: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“This paper studies the ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability of random ( 3 + p ) -SAT and obtains rigorous results that the exact ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability threshold is r p ⁎ = 1 / 3 ( 1 − p ) if p ≤ 3 / 7 .”
    2. Unchecked“For p ≥ 3 / 7 , we give lower and upper bounds of the ( 1 , 0 ) -satisfiability threshold, where the lower bound is obtained by using the Unit-Clause algorithm, and the upper bound is obtained by using a novel way to count precisely the subset of all ( 1 , 0…
  19. Computer Science

    arXiv 2303.11504

    arXiv 2303.11504: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Language models possess basic capabilities in syntax, semantics, pragmatics, world knowledge, and reasoning, but these capabilities are sensitive to specific inputs and surface features.”
    2. Unchecked“Many of these weaknesses can be framed as over-generalizations or under-generalizations of learned patterns in text.”
  20. Computer Science

    arXiv cond-mat/0208460

    arXiv cond-mat/0208460: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, we show that below $c_q$ there exist a clustering phase $c\in [c_d,c_q]$ in which ground states spontaneously divide into an exponential number of clusters and where the proliferation of metastable states is responsible for the onset of complexity…

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