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1,067 claims from 671 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 1,028 have no check with a result yet.

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318 claims from 210 papers, showing 121–140 of 210

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need

    Malach, Yehudai, Shalev‐Shwartz and Shamir · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We prove an even stronger hypothesis (as was also conjectured in Ramanujan et al., 2019), showing that for every bounded distribution and every target network with bounded weights, a sufficiently over-parameterized neural network with random weights contains…
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Soft Filter Pruning for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    He, Kang, Dong, Fu and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Empirically, SFP from scratch outperforms the previous filter pruning methods.”
    2. Unchecked“Notably, on ILSCRC-2012, SFP reduces more than 42% FLOPs on ResNet-101 with even 0.2% top-5 accuracy improvement, which has advanced the state-of-the-art.”
  3. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A Better Algorithm for Random k -SAT

    Coja‐Oghlan · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“We present a polynomial time algorithm that finds a satisfying assignment of F with high probability for constraint densities m/n<(1-eps_k)2^k\ln(k)/k, where eps_k->0.”
  4. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Origin of the computational hardness for learning with binary synapses

    Huang and Kabashima · Physical Review E · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The point-like clusters far apart from each other in the weight space explain the previously observed glassy behavior of stochastic local search heuristics.”
  5. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    NISP: Pruning Networks using Neuron Importance Score Propagation

    Yu, Li, Chen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“In contrast, we argue that it is essential to prune neurons in the entire neuron network jointly based on a unified goal: minimizing the reconstruction error of important responses in the "final response layer" (FRL), which is the second-to-last layer before…
    2. Unchecked“Specifically, we apply feature ranking techniques to measure the importance of each neuron in the FRL, and formulate network pruning as a binary integer optimization problem and derive a closed-form solution to it for pruning neurons in earlier layers.”
  6. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Constraint satisfaction problems with isolated solutions are hard

    Zdeborová and Mézard · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“On the other hand we show empirically that the clustered phase of these problems is extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”
  7. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Locked Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Zdeborová and Mézard · Physical Review Letters · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“While the phase diagram can be found easily, these problems, in their clustered phase, are extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”
  8. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Catching the k-NAESAT threshold

    Coja-Oglan and Παναγιώτου · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that the threshold for the existence of solutions in random $k$-NAESAT is $2^{k-1}\ln2-(\frac{\ln2}2+\frac14)+\eps_k$, where $|\eps_k| \le 2^{-(1-o_k(1))k}$, thereby verifying the statistical mechanics conjecture for this problem.”
  9. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The freezing threshold for k-colourings of a random graph

    Molloy · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that for random graphs with density above rkf, almost every colouring is such that a linear number of variables are frozen, meaning that their colours cannot be changed by a sequence of alterations whereby we change the colours of o(n) vertices at a…
    2. Unchecked“When the density is below rkf, then almost every colouring has at most o(n) frozen variables.”
  10. Computer Science › Formal Methods in Verification

    Formal Verification of the Empty Hexagon Number

    Bernardo, Wojciech, James, Cayden, Mario and Heule · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“This result implies that every unit cube tiling of $\mathbb{R}^7$ contains a facesharing pair of cubes.”
  11. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    On the Power and Limitations of Random Features for Understanding Neural Networks

    Yehudai and Shamir · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“In particular, we rigorously show that random features cannot be used to learn even a single ReLU neuron with standard Gaussian inputs, unless the network size (or magnitude of the weights) is exponentially large.”
  12. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    The Early Phase of Neural Network Training

    Frankle, Schwab and Morcos · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We find that, within this framework, deep networks are not robust to reinitializing with random weights while maintaining signs, and that weight distributions are highly non-independent even after only a few hundred iterations.”
  13. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them

    Süzgün, Nathan, Schärli et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find that applying chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting to BBH tasks enables PaLM to surpass the average human-rater performance on 10 of the 23 tasks, and Codex (code-davinci-002) to surpass the average human-rater performance on 17 of the 23 tasks.”
  14. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    The asymptotic k-SAT threshold

    Coja‐Oghlan · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“Here we prove that rk--SAT = 2k ln 2--1/2 (1 + ln 2) + ok(1), which matches the 1RSB prediction up to the ok(1) error term.”
  15. Computer Science

    arXiv 2107.07467

    arXiv 2107.07467: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“OTO contains two keys: (i) we partition the parameters of DNNs into zero-invariant groups, enabling us to prune zero groups without affecting the output; and (ii) to promote zero groups, we then formulate a structured-sparsity optimization problem and propos…
    2. Unchecked“To demonstrate the effectiveness of OTO, we train and compress full models simultaneously from scratch without fine-tuning for inference speedup and parameter reduction, and achieve state-of-the-art results on VGG16 for CIFAR10, ResNet50 for CIFAR10 and Bert…
  16. Computer Science

    DOI 10.1109/jstsp.2019.2961233

    DOI 10.1109/jstsp.2019.2961233: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Further extensive experiments with popular CNNs on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets show that IncReg achieves comparable to even better results compared with state-of-the-arts.”
  17. Computer Science

    DOI 10.4007/annals.2022.196.1.1

    DOI 10.4007/annals.2022.196.1.1: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“We establish the satisfiability threshold for random $k$-SAT for all $k\ge k_0$, with $k_0$ an absolute constant.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that the threshold $\alpha_{\rm sat}(k)$ is given explicitly by the one-step replica symmetry breaking prediction from statistical physics.”
  18. Computer Science

    DOI 10.1109/tip.2023.3302519

    DOI 10.1109/tip.2023.3302519: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Experimental results conducted on two datasets demonstrate that our method retains superior performance with a FLOPs reduction of 74.1% for VGG-16 and 54.6% for ResNet-56, respectively.”
    2. Unchecked“In addition, our ELC improves the inference speed by 2× on Jetson AGX Xavier edge device.”
  19. Computer Science

    arXiv 2012.06908

    arXiv 2012.06908: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Further analyses reveal that subnetworks found from different pre-training tend to yield diverse mask structures and perturbation sensitivities.”
  20. Computer Science

    arXiv 1707.01213

    arXiv 1707.01213: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“By forcing some of the factors to zero, we can safely remove the corresponding structures, thus prune the unimportant parts of a CNN.”
    2. Unchecked“Comparing with other structure selection methods that may need thousands of trials or iterative fine-tuning, our method is trained fully end-to-end in one training pass without bells and whistles.”

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