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6 claims from 5 papers

  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    Jumper, Evans, Pritzel et al. · Nature · 2021

    The paper presents a redesigned AlphaFold neural network that predicts protein 3D structure from amino acid sequence, and reports that it regularly reached atomic accuracy in the CASP14 assessment.

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    1. UncheckedIn the CASP14 blind assessment, a redesigned AlphaFold predicted protein structures with accuracy competitive with experiments in most cases, far ahead of other methods.“We validated an entirely redesigned version of our neural network-based model, AlphaFold, in the challenging 14th Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP14) 15 , demonstrating accuracy competitive with experimental structures in a majority of cases and greatly outperforming other…”
  2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Scaffolding protein functional sites using deep learning

    Wang, Lisanza, Juergens et al. · Science · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The first approach, “constrained hallucination,” optimizes sequences such that their predicted structures contain the desired functional site.”
  3. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Machine Learning and Deep Learning -- A review for Ecologists

    Maximilian and Hartig · University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The superior performance of ML and DL algorithms compared to statistical models can be explained by their higher flexibility and automatic data-dependent complexity optimization.”
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    AI for atmosphere–ocean sciences: advancements, challenges and ways forward

    Luo, Xia, Pan et al. · National Science Review · 2026

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    1. Unchecked“The most promising path forward is identified as the development of hybrid physics–AI modeling, which integrates the data-driven power of AI with the foundational constraints of physical laws to ensure generalizability and causal consistency.”
    2. Unchecked“A new framework for AI-based model intercomparison is essential for rigorous benchmark performance.”
  5. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Deep double descent: where bigger models and more data hurt*

    Nakkiran, Kaplun, Bansal, Yang, Barak and Sutskever · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, we show that double descent occurs not just as a function of model size, but also as a function of the number of training epochs.”

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