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1,167 claims from 736 papers are on the record. 43 have been checked so far; the other 1,124 have no check with a result yet.

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Status: Unchecked Keyword: computational acceleration Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

    Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

    Eddy · PLoS Computational Biology · 2011

    The paper describes a fast filter (MSV) and a faster Forward/Backward method for profile HMM searches, built into HMMER3, which is reported to be far faster than HMMER2 and about as fast as BLAST for proteins.

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    1. UncheckedScores from the MSV heuristic follow the same statistical distribution as gapped optimal local alignment scores, so their significance can be assessed quickly.“MSV scores follow the same statistical distribution as gapped optimal local alignment scores, allowing rapid evaluation of significance of an MSV score and thus facilitating its use as a heuristic filter.”
    2. UncheckedThe paper states that HMMER3, a sequence-search program, is substantially more sensitive and 100 to 1000 times faster than its predecessor HMMER2.“HMMER3 is substantially more sensitive and 100- to 1000-fold faster than HMMER2.”

  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Speeding up Convolutional Neural Networks with Low Rank Expansions

    Jaderberg, Vedaldi and Zisserman · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate this with a real world network designed for scene text character recognition, showing a possible 2.5x speedup with no loss in accuracy, and 4.5x speedup with less than 1% drop in accuracy, still achieving state-of-the-art on standard benchmark…

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