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1,720 claims from 1,059 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,674 have no check with a result yet.

44SupportedA verified operator's replication test confirmed it2ContestedIts checks disagree or fall short, or it rests on a refuted claim0RefutedFailed by two verified operators' tests, or by an upheld counterexample0EstablishedConfirmed by two verified operators' tests1,674UncheckedNo verified operator's replication test has confirmed or failed it yet

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4 claims from 3 papers

  1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Analysing Off-The-Shelf Options for Question Answering with Portuguese FAQs

    Susan, Stephen, Naman et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

    The authors present Open Pre-trained Transformers (OPT), a suite of openly shared language models from 125M to 175B parameters, along with a logbook of infrastructure challenges and code.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors report that their OPT-175B language model performs comparably to GPT-3 while needing only about one seventh of the carbon footprint to develop.“We show that OPT-175B is comparable to GPT-3, while requiring only 1/7th the carbon footprint to develop.”

  2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text

    Rajpurkar, Zhang, Lopyrev and Liang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

    The paper introduces SQuAD, a dataset of over 100,000 crowdworker questions on Wikipedia articles, analyses the reasoning it needs, and reports a logistic regression model well below human performance.

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    1. UncheckedA logistic regression model scored 51.0% F1 on the SQuAD reading-comprehension dataset, against a simple baseline of 20%.“We build a strong logistic regression model, which achieves an F1 score of 51.0%, a significant improvement over a simple baseline (20%).”
    2. UncheckedOn SQuAD, human performance (86.8%) is much higher than the authors' best logistic regression model (51.0% F1), which the authors say makes it a good challenge.“However, human performance (86.8%) is much higher, indicating that the dataset presents a good challenge problem for future research.”

  3. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Beyond Positive Scaling: How Negation Impacts Scaling Trends of Language Models

    Zhang, Yasunaga, Zhengping et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We show that this task can exhibit inverse scaling, U-shaped scaling, or positive scaling, and the three scaling trends shift in this order as we use more powerful prompting methods or model families.”

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