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368 claims from 245 papers, showing 141–160 of 245

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. 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.”

6. 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.”
   2. Supported · 71%“We consider three graphs, $G_{7,3}$, $G_{7,4}$, and $G_{7,6}$, related to Keller's conjecture in dimension 7. The conjecture is false for this dimension if and only if at least one of the graphs contains a clique of size $2^7 = 128$. We present an automated…

7. 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.”

8. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Governance Architecture for Neural Network Superposition: A Structural Solution to Hallucination via Routing and Interference Filtering

   Nelson, Hume, Olsson et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate the existence of a phase change, a surprising connection to the geometry of uniform polytopes, and evidence of a link to adversarial examples.”

9. 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.”

10. 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.”

11. 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.”

12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Only Train Once: A One-Shot Neural Network Training And Pruning Framework

    Chen, Bo, Ding et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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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…

13. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Structured Pruning for Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks via Incremental Regularization

    Wang, Hu, Zhang, Wang, Yu and Hu · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing · 2019

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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.”

14. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Proof of the satisfiability conjecture for large $k$

    Ding, Sly and Sun · Annals of Mathematics · 2022

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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.”

15. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Rethinking Weight Decay for Efficient Neural Network Pruning

    Tessier, Gripon, Léonardon, Arzel, Hannagan and Bertrand · Journal of Imaging · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We show that SWD compares favorably to state-of-the-art approaches, in terms of performance-to-parameters ratio, on the CIFAR-10, Cora, and ImageNet ILSVRC2012 datasets.”

16. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Efficient Layer Compression Without Pruning

    Wu, Zhu, Fang, Deng and Zhong · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2023

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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.”

17. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    The Lottery Tickets Hypothesis for Supervised and Self-supervised Pre-training in Computer Vision Models

    Chen, Frankle, Chang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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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.”

18. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Data-Driven Sparse Structure Selection for Deep Neural Networks

    Huang and Wang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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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.”

19. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

    AlphaEvolve: A coding agent for scientific and algorithmic discovery

    Alexander, Ngân, Marvin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2025

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    1. Supported · 71%“Notably, AlphaEvolve developed a search algorithm that found a procedure to multiply two $4 \times 4$ complex-valued matrices using $48$ scalar multiplications; offering the first improvement, after 56 years, over Strassen's algorithm in this setting.”

20. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Crosslingual Generalization through Multitask Finetuning

    Muennighoff, Thomas, Sutawika et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find finetuning large multilingual language models on English tasks with English prompts allows for task generalization to non-English languages that appear only in the pretraining corpus.”
    2. Unchecked“Finetuning on multilingual tasks with English prompts further improves performance on English and non-English tasks leading to various state-of-the-art zero-shot results.”
    3. Unchecked“Surprisingly, we find models are capable of zero-shot generalization to tasks in languages they have never intentionally seen.”