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410 claims from 273 papers, showing 201–220 of 273

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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]).”

4. 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).”

5. 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.”

6. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Binary determinantal complexity

   Hüttenhain and Ikenmeyer · Linear Algebra and its Applications · 2016

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   1. Supported · 71%“We prove that for writing the 3 by 3 permanent polynomial as a determinant of a matrix consisting only of zeros, ones, and variables as entries, a 7 by 7 matrix is required. Our proof is computer based and uses the enumeration of bipartite graphs.”

7. 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.”

8. 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…

9. 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.”

10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Optimal testing for planted satisfiability problems

    Berthet · Electronic Journal of Statistics · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We also address algorithmic issues, and give a computationally efficient test with optimal statistical performance.”

11. Computer Science › Natural Language Processing Techniques

    Bigger is not always better: The importance of human-scale language modeling for psycholinguistics

    Wilcox, Hu, Mueller et al. · Journal of Memory and Language · 2025

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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.”

12. Computer Science › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

    Playing Lottery Tickets with Vision and Language

    Gan, Chen, Li et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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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%).”

13. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    On the interplay between data structure and loss function in classification problems

    d’Ascoli, Gabrié, Sagun and Biroli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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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…

14. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Training Compact CNNs for Image Classification using Dynamic-coded Filter Fusion

    Lin, Chen, Chao and Ji · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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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.”

15. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Model Complexity of Deep Learning: A Survey

    Hu, Chu, Pei, Liu and Bian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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

16. Computer Science › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

    Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

    Jan, Daniel, Niels et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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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…

17. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Behavior of heuristics on large and hard satisfiability problems

    Ardelius and Aurell · Physical Review E · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“We show that ASAT solves instances as large as one million variables in linear time, on average, up to 4.21 clauses per variable for random 3SAT.”
    2. Unchecked“For K higher than 3, ASAT appears to solve instances at the ``FRSB threshold'' in linear time, up to K=7.”

18. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering dataset

    Chen, Yin, Ku et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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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.”

19. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    On Second Thought, Let's Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning

    Shaikh, Zhang, William, Bernstein and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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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.”

20. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Counting Solutions to Random CNF Formulas

    Galanis, Goldberg, Guo and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We give the first efficient algorithm to approximately count the number of solutions in the random $k$-SAT model when the density of the formula scales exponentially with $k$.”