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284 claims from 192 papers, showing 21–40 of 192

  1. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    The complexity of theorem-proving procedures

    Cook · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 1971

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    1. Unchecked“It is shown that any recognition problem solved by a polynomial time-bounded nondeterministic Turing machine can be “reduced” to the problem of determining whether a given propositional formula is a tautology.”
    2. Unchecked“From this notion of reducible, polynomial degrees of difficulty are defined, and it is shown that the problem of determining tautologyhood has the same polynomial degree as the problem of determining whether the first of two given graphs is isomorphic to a s…
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

    He, Zhang, Ren and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“An ensemble of these residual nets achieves 3.57% error on the ImageNet test set.”
    2. Unchecked“Solely due to our extremely deep representations, we obtain a 28% relative improvement on the COCO object detection dataset.”
  3. Computer Science › Speech and dialogue systems

    ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine

    Weizenbaum · Communications of the ACM · 1966

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    1. Unchecked“Input sentences are analyzed on the basis of decomposition rules which are triggered by key words appearing in the input text.”
    2. Unchecked“Responses are generated by reassembly rules associated with selected decomposition rules.”
  4. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

    池谷, Tinn, Cheng et al. · ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“In this article, we challenge this assumption by showing that for domains with abundant unlabeled text, such as biomedicine, pretraining language models from scratch results in substantial gains over continual pretraining of general-domain language models.”
    2. Unchecked“Further, in conducting a thorough evaluation of modeling choices, both for pretraining and task-specific fine-tuning, we discover that some common practices are unnecessary with BERT models, such as using complex tagging schemes in named entity recognition.”
  5. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

    Discernment and Social Learning as a Companion Training Layer

    Ouyang, Wu, Jiang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“In human evaluations on our prompt distribution, outputs from the 1.3B parameter InstructGPT model are preferred to outputs from the 175B GPT-3, despite having 100x fewer parameters.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, InstructGPT models show improvements in truthfulness and reductions in toxic output generation while having minimal performance regressions on public NLP datasets.”
  6. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

    Chowdhery, Narang, Devlin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“A significant number of BIG-bench tasks showed discontinuous improvements from model scale, meaning that performance steeply increased as we scaled to our largest model.”
    2. Unchecked“We demonstrate continued benefits of scaling by achieving state-of-the-art few-shot learning results on hundreds of language understanding and generation benchmarks.”
    3. Unchecked“On a number of these tasks, PaLM 540B achieves breakthrough performance, outperforming the finetuned state-of-the-art on a suite of multi-step reasoning tasks, and outperforming average human performance on the recently released BIG-bench benchmark.”
  7. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

    Touvron, Lavril, Izacard et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We train our models on trillions of tokens, and show that it is possible to train state-of-the-art models using publicly available datasets exclusively, without resorting to proprietary and inaccessible datasets.”
    2. Unchecked“In particular, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks, and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, Chinchilla-70B and PaLM-540B.”
  8. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Deep Compression: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Pruning, Trained Quantization and Huffman Coding

    Han, Mao and Dally · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Our method reduced the size of VGG-16 by 49x from 552MB to 11.3MB, again with no loss of accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Benchmarked on CPU, GPU and mobile GPU, compressed network has 3x to 4x layerwise speedup and 3x to 7x better energy efficiency.”
  9. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Grasshopper Optimisation Algorithm: Theory and application

    Saremi, Mirjalili and Lewis · Advances in Engineering Software · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The results show that the proposed algorithm is able to provide superior results compared to well-known and recent algorithms in the literature.”
  10. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Optimal Brain Damage

    LeCun, Denker and Solla · 1989

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    1. Unchecked“By removing unimportant weights from a network, several improvements can be expected: better generalization, fewer training examples required, and improved speed of learning and/or classification.”
  11. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    EIE

    Han, Liu, Mao et al. · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Going from DRAM to SRAM gives EIE 120× energy saving; Exploiting sparsity saves 10×; Weight sharing gives 8×; Skipping zero activations from ReLU saves another 3×.”
    2. Unchecked“Compared with DaDianNao, EIE has 2.9×, 19× and 3× better throughput, energy efficiency and area efficiency.”
  12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Densely Connected Convolutional Networks

    Huang, Liu, van der Maaten and Weinberger · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“DenseNets have several compelling advantages: they alleviate the vanishing-gradient problem, strengthen feature propagation, encourage feature reuse, and substantially reduce the number of parameters.”
  13. Computer Science

    arXiv 1806.04731

    arXiv 1806.04731: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“The prognostic multi-year simulations are stable and closely reproduce not only the mean climate of the cloud-resolving simulation but also key aspects of variability, including precipitation extremes and the equatorial wave spectrum.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, the neural network approximately conserves energy despite not being explicitly instructed to.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we show that the neural network parameterization generalizes to new surface forcing patterns but struggles to cope with temperatures far outside its training manifold.”
  14. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

    Bubeck, Chandrasekaran, Eldan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting.”
  15. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    Jared, McCandlish, Henighan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The loss scales as a power-law with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, with some trends spanning more than seven orders of magnitude.”
  16. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    A Brief Overview of ChatGPT: The History, Status Quo and Potential Future Development

    Wu, He, Liu et al. · IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, from the limited open-accessed resources, we conclude the core techniques of ChatGPT, mainly including large-scale language models, in-context learning, reinforcement learning from human feedback and the key technical steps for developing Chat-…
  17. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

    Ba and Caruana · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“In this extended abstract, we show that shallow feed-forward networks can learn the complex functions previously learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with deep models.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, in some cases the shallow neural nets can learn these deep functions using a total number of parameters similar to the original deep model.”
  18. Computer Science

    arXiv 2312.02003

    arXiv 2312.02003: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“For example, Research on model and parameter extraction attacks is limited and often theoretical, hindered by LLM parameter scale and confidentiality.”
  19. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Going Deeper with Convolutions

    Szegedy, Liu, Jia et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“This was achieved by a carefully crafted design that allows for increasing the depth and width of the network while keeping the computational budget constant.”
  20. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Pruning Convolutional Neural Networks for Resource Efficient Inference

    Molchanov, Tyree, Karras, Aila and Kautz · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“The proposed criterion demonstrates superior performance compared to other criteria, e.g. the norm of kernel weights or feature map activation, for pruning large CNNs after adaptation to fine-grained classification tasks (Birds-200 and Flowers-102) relaying…

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