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5 claims from 4 papers

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   ClimaX: A foundation model for weather and climate

   Nguyen, Brandstetter, Kapoor, Gupta and Grover · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

   The authors built ClimaX, a Transformer-based deep learning model pre-trained on CMIP6 climate data, and report that it outperforms existing data-driven baselines on weather forecasting and climate projection benchmarks.

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   1. UncheckedThe pre-trained ClimaX model can be fine-tuned for many weather and climate tasks, including ones using variables and scales not seen in pretraining.“The pre-trained ClimaX can then be fine-tuned to address a breadth of climate and weather tasks, including those that involve atmospheric variables and spatio-temporal scales unseen during pretraining.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

   Evaluating Protein Transfer Learning with TAPE

   Rao, Bhattacharya, Thomas et al. · PubMed · 2019

   The authors introduce TAPE, five protein tasks for testing semi-supervised learning, and benchmark a range of protein representation learning approaches on them.

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   1. UncheckedSelf-supervised pretraining helped almost all tested protein models on all five TAPE tasks, more than doubling performance in some cases.“We find that self-supervised pretraining is helpful for almost all models on all tasks, more than doubling performance in some cases.”
   2. UncheckedIn several TAPE tasks, protein features learned by self-supervised pretraining still performed worse than features from state-of-the-art non-neural methods.“Despite this increase, in several cases features learned by self-supervised pretraining still lag behind features extracted by state-of-the-art non-neural techniques.”

3. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   The Early Phase of Neural Network Training

   Frankle, Schwab and Morcos · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

   The authors measured how deep networks change in the first iterations of training, probing the weight distribution and its dependence on the dataset, including whether labels are needed.

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   1. UncheckedIn the paper's framework, deep networks early in training do not cope with random weights that keep their signs, and their weights are far from independent.“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.”

4. 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. UncheckedSubnetworks found from different kinds of pre-training tend to have varied mask structures and to respond differently to perturbations.“Further analyses reveal that subnetworks found from different pre-training tend to yield diverse mask structures and perturbation sensitivities.”