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283 claims from 187 papers, showing 41–60 of 187

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks

   Frankle and Carbin · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“Above this size, the winning tickets that we find learn faster than the original network and reach higher test accuracy.”
   2. Unchecked“Based on these results, we articulate the "lottery ticket hypothesis:" dense, randomly-initialized, feed-forward networks contain subnetworks ("winning tickets") that - when trained in isolation - reach test accuracy comparable to the original network in a s…

2. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

   Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art

   Burke, Gendreau, Hyde et al. · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 2013

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   1. Unchecked“Two main hyper-heuristic categories can be considered: heuristic selection and heuristic generation.”
   2. Unchecked“The distinguishing feature of hyper-heuristics is that they operate on a search space of heuristics (or heuristic components) rather than directly on the search space of solutions to the underlying problem that is being addressed.”

3. Computer Science

   arXiv 1906.10771

   arXiv 1906.10771: OpenAlex has no record of it

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   1. Unchecked“For modern networks trained on ImageNet, we measured experimentally a high (>93%) correlation between the contribution computed by our methods and a reliable estimate of the true importance.”

4. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

   Chung, Le Hou, Longpre et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“For instance, Flan-PaLM 540B instruction-finetuned on 1.8K tasks outperforms PALM 540B by a large margin (+9.4% on average).”
   2. Unchecked“Flan-PaLM 540B achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, such as 75.2% on five-shot MMLU.”
   3. Unchecked“We find that instruction finetuning with the above aspects dramatically improves performance on a variety of model classes (PaLM, T5, U-PaLM), prompting setups (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT), and evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA, MGSM, open-ended generat…

5. Computer Science

   arXiv 2202.02450

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   1. Unchecked“About 1.8 million materials were identified from a screening of 31 million hypothetical crystal structures to be potentially stable against existing Materials Project crystals based on M3GNet energies.”

6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Analytic and Algorithmic Solution of Random Satisfiability Problems

   Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina · Science · 2002

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   1. Unchecked“We show the existence of an intermediate phase below α c , where the proliferation of metastable states is responsible for the onset of complexity in search algorithms.”

7. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

   Zhang, Bengio, Hardt, Recht and Vinyals · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data.”
   2. Unchecked“This phenomenon is qualitatively unaffected by explicit regularization, and occurs even if we replace the true images by completely unstructured random noise.”

8. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Where the really hard problems are

   Cheeseman, Kanefsky and Taylor · 1991

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   1. Unchecked“It is the high density of well-separated almost solutions (local minima) at this boundary that cause search algorithms to "thrash".”

9. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

   Jason, Tay, Bommasani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Thus, emergent abilities cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models.”

10. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning

    Liu, Sun, Zhou, Huang and Darrell · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“For all state-of-the-art structured pruning algorithms we examined, fine-tuning a pruned model only gives comparable or worse performance than training that model with randomly initialized weights.”

11. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

    Zhang, Zhou, Lin and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The new architecture utilizes two new operations, pointwise group convolution and channel shuffle, to greatly reduce computation cost while maintaining accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Experiments on ImageNet classification and MS COCO object detection demonstrate the superior performance of ShuffleNet over other structures, e.g. lower top-1 error (absolute 7.8%) than recent MobileNet on ImageNet classification task, under the computation…

12. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models

    Dagdelen, Dunn, Lee et al. · Nature Communications · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.”

13. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

    Wang, Jason, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that self-consistency boosts the performance of chain-of-thought prompting with a striking margin on a range of popular arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks, including GSM8K (+17.9%), SVAMP (+11.0%), AQuA (…

14. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    A Convergence Theory for Deep Learning via Over-Parameterization

    Allen-Zhu, Li and Song · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“This implies an equivalence between over-parameterized neural networks and neural tangent kernel (NTK) in the finite (and polynomial) width setting.”

15. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Pruning Filters for Efficient ConvNets

    Li, Kadav, Đurđanović, Samet and Graf · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“In contrast to pruning weights, this approach does not result in sparse connectivity patterns.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that even simple filter pruning techniques can reduce inference costs for VGG-16 by up to 34% and ResNet-110 by up to 38% on CIFAR10 while regaining close to the original accuracy by retraining the networks.”

16. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

    Hoffmann, Borgeaud, Mensch et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“By training over 400 language models ranging from 70 million to over 16 billion parameters on 5 to 500 billion tokens, we find that for compute-optimal training, the model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equally: for every doubling of…
    2. Unchecked“Chinchilla uniformly and significantly outperforms Gopher (280B), GPT-3 (175B), Jurassic-1 (178B), and Megatron-Turing NLG (530B) on a large range of downstream evaluation tasks.”
    3. Unchecked“As a highlight, Chinchilla reaches a state-of-the-art average accuracy of 67.5% on the MMLU benchmark, greater than a 7% improvement over Gopher.”

17. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Critical Behavior in the Satisfiability of Random Boolean Expressions

    Kirkpatrick and Selman · Science · 1994

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    1. Unchecked“Similar sharp threshold behavior is observed for higher values of k .”
    2. Unchecked“Finite-size scaling, a method from statistical physics, can be used to characterize size-dependent effects near the threshold.”

18. Computer Science

    A Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication

    Alman and Vassilevska Williams · TheoretiCS 3 (2024) · 2020 · arXiv 2010.05846

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    1. Unchecked“Thus, even before computing any specific values, it is clear that we achieve an improved bound on $ω$, and we indeed obtain the best bound on $ω$ to date: $$ω< 2.37286.$$”

19. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

    Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models

    Romera‐Paredes, Barekatain, Novikov et al. · Nature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Applying FunSearch to a central problem in extremal combinatorics—the cap set problem—we discover new constructions of large cap sets going beyond the best-known ones, both in finite dimensional and asymptotic cases.”

20. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Lévy flight distribution: A new metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

    Houssein, Saad, Hashim, Shaban and Hassaballah · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The statistical simulation results revealed that the LFD algorithm provides better results with superior performance in most tests compared to several well-known metaheuristic algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA), differential evolution (DE), particle…
    2. Unchecked“Eventually, the LFD algorithm performs successfully achieving a high coverage rate up to 43.16 %, while the A3, EECDS, and CDS-Rule K algorithms achieve low coverage rates up to 40 % based on network sizes used in the simulation experiments.”