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4 claims from 3 papers

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

   Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

   Senior, Evans, Jumper et al. · Nature · 2020

   The authors trained a neural network to predict distances between amino acid residues, built a potential from them, and used it in AlphaFold, which performed well in the CASP13 blind assessment.

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   1. UncheckedA potential built from predicted residue distances can be optimised by simple gradient descent to produce protein structures, without complex sampling.“We find that the resulting potential can be optimized by a simple gradient descent algorithm to generate structures without complex sampling procedures.”
   2. UncheckedIn the CASP13 blind assessment, AlphaFold reached TM scores of 0.7 or higher on 24 of 43 free modelling domains; the next best method managed 14 of 43.“In the recent Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction 5 (CASP13)-a blind assessment of the state of the field-AlphaFold created high-accuracy structures (with template modelling (TM) scores 6 of 0.7 or higher) for 24 out of 43 free modelling domains, whereas the next best method, which…”

2. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Gradient Descent Provably Optimizes Over-parameterized Neural Networks

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

   The paper explains why gradient descent from random initialisation can reach zero training loss in two-layer ReLU networks, despite a non-convex, non-smooth objective, when the network is wide enough.

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   1. UncheckedFor a two-layer ReLU network with enough hidden nodes and no two parallel inputs, random-start gradient descent reaches a global optimum quickly on quadratic loss.“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 convergence rate for the quadratic loss functio…”

3. Mathematics › Advanced Mathematical Identities

   The Ramanujan Machine: Automatically Generated Conjectures on Fundamental Constants

   Raayoni, Shahar, Pisha et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

   The paper proposes two algorithms that search numerically for continued fraction formulas for constants such as π, e and Catalan's constant, and reports dozens of known and new formulas.

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   1. Supported · 71%The authors' algorithm produced two continued-fraction formulas, for 24/π² and 8/(7ζ(3)), which they say are so far unproven.“Two example conjectures found by our algorithm and so far unproven are: \begin{equation*} \frac{24}{π^2} = 2 + 7\cdot 0\cdot 1+ \frac{8\cdot1^4}{2 + 7\cdot 1\cdot 2 + \frac{8\cdot2^4}{2 + 7\cdot 2\cdot 3 + \frac{8\cdot3^4}{2 + 7\cdot 3\cdot 4 + \frac{8\cdot4^4}{..}}}} \quad\quad,\quad\quad \frac{8}…”