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1,143 claims from 718 papers are on the record. 41 have been checked so far; the other 1,102 have no check with a result yet.

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1,102 claims from 680 papers, showing 221–240 of 680

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

4. 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…

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

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

   High-resolution de novo structure prediction from primary sequence

   Wu, Ding, Wang et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Using a new combination of a protein language model that allows us to make predictions from single sequences and a geometry-inspired transformer model trained on protein structures, OmegaFold outperforms RoseTTAFold and achieves similar prediction accuracy t…
   2. Unchecked“OmegaFold enables accurate predictions on orphan proteins that do not belong to any functionally characterized protein family and antibodies that tend to have noisy MSAs due to fast evolution.”

8. Computer Science

   arXiv 1911.13299

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   1. Unchecked“Hidden in a randomly weighted Wide ResNet-50 we show that there is a subnetwork (with random weights) that is smaller than, but matches the performance of a ResNet-34 trained on ImageNet.”
   2. Unchecked“We empirically show that as randomly weighted neural networks with fixed weights grow wider and deeper, an "untrained subnetwork" approaches a network with learned weights in accuracy.”

9. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   The State of Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks

   Trevor, Elsen and Hooker · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Across thousands of experiments, we demonstrate that complex techniques (Molchanov et al., 2017; Louizos et al., 2017b) shown to yield high compression rates on smaller datasets perform inconsistently, and that simple magnitude pruning approaches achieve com…

10. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Including crystal structure attributes in machine learning models of formation energies via Voronoi tessellations

    Ward, Liu, Krishna et al. · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The ML models created using this method have half the cross-validation error and similar training and evaluation speeds to models created with the Coulomb matrix and partial radial distribution function methods.”

11. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

    Price, Sánchez‐González, Alet et al. · Nature · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“GenCast generates an ensemble of stochastic 15-day global forecasts, at 12-h steps and 0.25° latitude–longitude resolution, for more than 80 surface and atmospheric variables, in 8 min.”
    2. Unchecked“It has greater skill than ENS on 97.2% of 1,320 targets we evaluated and better predicts extreme weather, tropical cyclone tracks and wind power production.”

12. Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science

    Cheap Correlate or Discriminating Property? An Executable Validation Protocol for Consciousness- and Cognition-Theoretic Claims about AI

    Butlin, Robert, Elmoznino et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Our analysis suggests that no current AI systems are conscious, but also suggests that there are no obvious technical barriers to building AI systems which satisfy these indicators.”

13. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Aging Navigational System

    Lester, Moffat, Wiener, Barnes and Wolbers · Neuron · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Critically, we show 1) that navigational deficits cannot solely be explained by general deficits in learning and memory, 2) that there is no uniform decline across different navigational computations, and 3) that navigational deficits might be sensitive mark…

14. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Toward open sharing of task-based fMRI data: the OpenfMRI project

    Poldrack, Barch, Mitchell et al. · Frontiers in Neuroinformatics · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“Clustering analyses show that the similarity relations between statistical maps have a somewhat orderly relation to the mental functions engaged by the relevant tasks.”

15. Medicine

    arXiv cond-mat/0207194

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    1. Unchecked“We show the existence of an intermediate phase in the satisfiable region, where the proliferation of metastable states is at the origin of the slowdown of search algorithms.”

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Global Signal Regression Strengthens Association between Resting-State Functional Connectivity and Behavior

    Li, Kong, Liégeois et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“By applying the variance component model to the Brain Genomics Superstruct Project (GSP), we found that behavioral variance explained by whole-brain RSFC increased by an average of 47% across 23 behavioral measures after GSR.”
    2. Unchecked“GSR improved behavioral prediction accuracies by an average of 64% and 12% in the GSP and HCP datasets respectively.”

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

    Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences

    Rives, Meier, Sercu et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“The learned representation space has a multi-scale organization reflecting structure from the level of biochemical properties of amino acids to remote homology of proteins.”
    2. Unchecked“Information about secondary and tertiary structure is encoded in the representations and can be identified by linear projections.”

18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    The Impact of High and Growing Government Debt on Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation for the Euro Area

    Checherita-Westphal and Rother · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“It finds a non-linear impact of debt on growth with a turning point — beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a deleterious impact on long-term growth — at about 90-100% of GDP.”
    2. Unchecked“At the same time, there is evidence that the annual change of the public debt ratio and the budget deficit-to-GDP ratio are negatively and linearly associated with per-capita GDP growth.”

19. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Public debt and economic growth in advanced economies: A survey

    Panizza and Presbitero · Zeitschrift für schweizerische Statistik und Volkswirtschaft/Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik/Swiss journal of economics and statistics · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“While many papers have found a negative correlation between debt and growth, our reading of the empirical literature is that there is no paper that can make a strong case for a causal relationship going from debt to economic growth.”

20. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Object-vector coding in the medial entorhinal cortex

    Høydal, Skytøen, Andersson, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Here we show that a large fraction of medial entorhinal cortex neurons fire specifically when mice are at given distances and directions from spatially confined objects.”
    2. Unchecked“These 'object-vector cells' are tuned equally to a spectrum of discrete objects, irrespective of their location in the test arena, as well as to a broad range of dimensions and shapes, from point-like objects to extended surfaces.”