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298 claims from 201 papers, showing 61–80 of 201

  1. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Surprises in high-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation

    Hastie, A, Rosset and Tibshirani · The Annals of Statistics · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We recover—in a precise quantitative way—several phenomena that have been observed in large-scale neural networks and kernel machines, including the “double descent” behavior of the prediction risk, and the potential benefits of overparametrization.”
  2. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning

    Fawzi, Balog, Huang et al. · Nature · 2022

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    1. Supported · 71%“Particularly relevant is the case of 4 × 4 matrices in a finite field, where AlphaTensor’s algorithm improves on Strassen’s two-level algorithm for the first time, to our knowledge, since its discovery 50 years ago.”
  3. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Golden eagle optimizer: A nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm

    Mohammadi-Balani, Nayeri, Azar and Taghizadeh · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Results were compared to that of two other multi-objective algorithms, which showed that it can approximate true Pareto optimal solutions better than the other two algorithms.”
  4. Computer Science

    arXiv cond-mat/0504070

    arXiv cond-mat/0504070: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Using elementary rigorous methods we prove the existence of a clustered phase in the random $K$-SAT problem, for $K\geq 8$.”
    2. Unchecked“In this phase the solutions are grouped into clusters which are far away from each other.”
  5. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

    Gao, Biderman, Black et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our evaluation of the untuned performance of GPT-2 and GPT-3 on the Pile shows that these models struggle on many of its components, such as academic writing.”
    2. Unchecked“Conversely, models trained on the Pile improve significantly over both Raw CC and CC-100 on all components of the Pile, while improving performance on downstream evaluations.”
  6. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

    Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life

    Discovery, Boitreaud, Dent et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Chai-1 can also be run in single-sequence mode with-out MSAs while preserving most of its performance.”
  7. Computer Science

    arXiv 1911.13299

    arXiv 1911.13299: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Hidden in a randomly weighted Wide ResNet-50 we show that there is a subnetwork (with random weights) that is smaller than, but matches the performance of a ResNet-34 trained on ImageNet.”
    2. Unchecked“We empirically show that as randomly weighted neural networks with fixed weights grow wider and deeper, an "untrained subnetwork" approaches a network with learned weights in accuracy.”
  8. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    The State of Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks

    Trevor, Elsen and Hooker · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Across thousands of experiments, we demonstrate that complex techniques (Molchanov et al., 2017; Louizos et al., 2017b) shown to yield high compression rates on smaller datasets perform inconsistently, and that simple magnitude pruning approaches achieve com…
  9. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Gradient Descent Provably Optimizes Over-parameterized Neural Networks

    Du, Zhai, Póczos and Singh · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“For an $m$ hidden node shallow neural network with ReLU activation and $n$ training data, we show as long as $m$ is large enough and no two inputs are parallel, randomly initialized gradient descent converges to a globally optimal solution at a linear conver…
  10. Computer Science

    The Heidelberg Spiking Data Sets for the Systematic Evaluation of Spiking Neural Networks

    Cramer, Stradmann, Schemmel and Zenke · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems 33(7) · 2022 · arXiv 1910.07407

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    1. Supported · 71%“By training a range of conventional and spiking classifiers, we show that leveraging spike timing information within these datasets is essential for good classification accuracy.”
  11. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    AMC: AutoML for Model Compression and Acceleration on Mobile Devices

    Yihui, Lin, Liu, Wang, Li and Han · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Under 4x FLOPs reduction, we achieved 2.7% better accuracy than the handcrafted model compression policy for VGG-16 on ImageNet.”
    2. Unchecked“We applied this automated, push-the-button compression pipeline to MobileNet and achieved 1.81x speedup of measured inference latency on an Android phone and 1.43x speedup on the Titan XP GPU, with only 0.1% loss of ImageNet Top-1 accuracy.”
  12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Channel Pruning for Accelerating Very Deep Neural Networks

    He, Zhang and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Our pruned VGG-16 achieves the state-of-the-art results by 5x speed-up along with only 0.3% increase of error.”
  13. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Approximating the unsatisfiability threshold of random formulas

    Kirousis, Kranakis, Kriz̧anc and Stamatiou · Random Structures and Algorithms · 1998

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    1. Unchecked“By letting the expected value of the first term of the sequence converge to zero, we obtain, by simple and elementary computations, an upper bound for κ equal to 4.667.”
    2. Unchecked“This technique generalizes in a straightforward manner to k-SAT for k>3.”
  14. Computer Science

    Solving and Verifying the boolean Pythagorean Triples problem via Cube-and-Conquer

    Heule, Kullmann and Marek · SAT 2016 · 2016 · arXiv 1605.00723

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    1. Unchecked“We solve this problem, proving in fact the impossibility, by using the Cube-and-Conquer paradigm, a hybrid SAT method for hard problems, employing both look-ahead and CDCL solvers.”
    2. Supported · 71%“Due to the general interest in this mathematical problem, our result requires a formal proof. Exploiting recent progress in unsatisfiability proofs of SAT solvers, we produced and verified a proof in the DRAT format, which is almost 200 terabytes in size.”
  15. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model

    Smith, Patwary, Norick et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that MT-NLG achieves superior zero-, one-, and few-shot learning accuracies on several NLP benchmarks and establishes new state-of-the-art results.”
  16. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists

    Korinek · Journal of Economic Literature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“I argue that economists can reap significant productivity gains by taking advantage of generative AI to automate micro-tasks.”
  17. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks

    Rastegari, Ordóñez, Redmon and Farhadi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“This results in 58x faster convolutional operations and 32x memory savings.”
    2. Unchecked“We compare our method with recent network binarization methods, BinaryConnect and BinaryNets, and outperform these methods by large margins on ImageNet, more than 16% in top-1 accuracy.”
  18. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs

    Schoenebeck · Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“This is the first construction of a Lasserre integrality gap.”
  19. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Learning Filter Pruning Criteria for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Acceleration

    He, Ding, Liu, Zhu, Zhang and Yang · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Notably, on ILSVRC-2012, our LFPC reduces more than 60% FLOPs on ResNet-50 with only 0.83% top-5 accuracy loss.”
  20. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Mick Gets Some (the Odds Are on His Side)

    Chvátal and Reed · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1992

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    1. Unchecked“In addition, we establish a threshold for 2-SAT; if k = 2 then F is satisfiable with probability 1 - o(1) whenever c < 1 and unsatisfiable with probability 1 - o(1) whenever c > 1.”

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