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1,140 claims from 718 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 1,101 have no check with a result yet.

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1,101 claims from 681 papers, showing 201–220 of 681

  1. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Lévy flight distribution: A new metaheuristic algorithm for solving engineering optimization problems

    Houssein, Saad, Hashim, Shaban and Hassaballah · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The statistical simulation results revealed that the LFD algorithm provides better results with superior performance in most tests compared to several well-known metaheuristic algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA), differential evolution (DE), particle…
    2. Unchecked“Eventually, the LFD algorithm performs successfully achieving a high coverage rate up to 43.16 %, while the A3, EECDS, and CDS-Rule K algorithms achieve low coverage rates up to 40 % based on network sizes used in the simulation experiments.”
  2. Mathematics

    arXiv cond-mat/0612365

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    1. Unchecked“For typical large instances, the two transitions are sharp.”
  3. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Surprises in high-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation

    Hastie, A, Rosset and Tibshirani · The Annals of Statistics · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We recover—in a precise quantitative way—several phenomena that have been observed in large-scale neural networks and kernel machines, including the “double descent” behavior of the prediction risk, and the potential benefits of overparametrization.”
  4. 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.”
  5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Public Debt and Growth

    Woo and Kumar · IMF Working Paper · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“The empirical results suggest an inverse relationship between initial debt and subsequent growth, controlling for other determinants of growth: on average, a 10 percentage point increase in the initial debt-to-GDP ratio is associated with a slowdown in annua…
    2. Unchecked“There is some evidence of nonlinearity with higher levels of initial debt having a proportionately larger negative effect on subsequent growth.”
    3. Unchecked“Analysis of the components of growth suggests that the adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labor productivity growth mainly due to reduced investment and slower growth of capital stock.”
  6. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    A Disk of Scattered Icy Objects and the Origin of Jupiter-Family Comets

    Duncan and Levison · Science · 1997

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    1. Unchecked“A disk currently containing as few as ∼6 × 10 8 objects could supply all of the observed Jupiter-family comets.”
  7. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv astro-ph/0404456

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    1. Unchecked“Pre-discovery images from 2001, 2002, and 2003 have allowed us to refine the orbit sufficiently to conclude that 2003 VB12 is on a highly eccentric orbit which permanently resides well beyond the Kuiper belt with a semimajor axis of 480$\pm$40 AU and a perih…
  8. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Golden eagle optimizer: A nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm

    Mohammadi-Balani, Nayeri, Azar and Taghizadeh · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Results were compared to that of two other multi-objective algorithms, which showed that it can approximate true Pareto optimal solutions better than the other two algorithms.”
  9. Computer Science

    arXiv cond-mat/0504070

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    1. Unchecked“Using elementary rigorous methods we prove the existence of a clustered phase in the random $K$-SAT problem, for $K\geq 8$.”
    2. Unchecked“In this phase the solutions are grouped into clusters which are far away from each other.”
  10. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Attention is not all you need: the complicated case of ethically using large language models in healthcare and medicine

    Harrer · EBioMedicine · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Without human oversight, guidance and responsible design and operation, such generative AI applications will remain a party trick with substantial potential for creating and spreading misinformation or harmful and inaccurate content at unprecedented scale.”
  11. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling

    Gao, Biderman, Black et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our evaluation of the untuned performance of GPT-2 and GPT-3 on the Pile shows that these models struggle on many of its components, such as academic writing.”
    2. Unchecked“Conversely, models trained on the Pile improve significantly over both Raw CC and CC-100 on all components of the Pile, while improving performance on downstream evaluations.”
  12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Learning inverse folding from millions of predicted structures

    Hsu, Verkuil, Liu et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Trained with this additional data, a sequence-to-sequence transformer with invariant geometric input processing layers achieves 51% native sequence recovery on structurally held-out backbones with 72% recovery for buried residues, an overall improvement of a…
  13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Statistical harmonization corrects site effects in functional connectivity measurements from multi‐site fMRI data

    Yu, Linn, Cook et al. · Human Brain Mapping · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Indeed, in this study, we found that the magnitude of site effects depended on the choice of connectivity metric and brain atlas.”
    2. Unchecked“In the current work, ComBat successfully removed site effects identified in connectivity and network measures and increased the power to detect age associations when using optimal combinations of connectivity metrics and brain atlases.”
  14. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    FourCastNet: A Global Data-driven High-resolution Weather Model using Adaptive Fourier Neural Operators

    Pathak, Subramanian, Harrington et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“FourCastNet matches the forecasting accuracy of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), a state-of-the-art Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model, at short lead times for large-scale variables, while outperforming IFS for variables with complex fine…
    2. Unchecked“FourCastNet generates a week-long forecast in less than 2 seconds, orders of magnitude faster than IFS.”
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Single-sequence protein structure prediction using a language model and deep learning

    Chowdhury, Bouatta, Biswas et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“On average, RGN2 outperforms AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAFold on orphan proteins and classes of designed proteins while achieving up to a 10 6 -fold reduction in compute time.”
  16. Medicine

    arXiv 2306.10070

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    1. Unchecked“We also find that the use of LLMs, like ChatGPT, in the fields of biomedicine and health entails various risks and challenges, including fabricated information in its generated responses, as well as legal and privacy concerns associated with sensitive patien…
    2. Unchecked“For other applications, the advances have been modest.”
  17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    OpenFold: retraining AlphaFold2 yields new insights into its learning mechanisms and capacity for generalization

    Ahdritz, Bouatta, Floristean et al. · Nature Methods · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“We find that OpenFold is remarkably robust at generalizing despite extreme reductions in training set size and diversity, including near-complete elisions of classes of secondary structure elements.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 0712.0553

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    1. Unchecked“Assuming that the last encounter with Uranus delivered Neptune onto a low-inclination orbit with a semi-major axis of ~27 AU and an eccentricity of ~0.3, and that subsequently Neptune's eccentricity damped in ~1 My, our simulations reproduce the main observe…
  19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    OpenFold: retraining AlphaFold2 yields new insights into its learning mechanisms and capacity for generalization

    Ahdritz, Bouatta, Floristean et al. · Nature Methods · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“We train OpenFold from scratch, matching the accuracy of AlphaFold2.”
    2. Unchecked“Having established parity, we find that OpenFold is remarkably robust at generalizing even when the size and diversity of its training set is deliberately limited, including near-complete elisions of classes of secondary structure elements.”
    3. Unchecked“By analyzing intermediate structures produced during training, we also gain insights into the hierarchical manner in which OpenFold learns to fold.”
  20. Computer Science › Computational Drug Discovery Methods

    Chai-1: Decoding the molecular interactions of life

    Discovery, Boitreaud, Dent et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Chai-1 can also be run in single-sequence mode with-out MSAs while preserving most of its performance.”

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