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1,167 claims from 736 papers are on the record. 43 have been checked so far; the other 1,124 have no check with a result yet.

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1,124 claims from 696 papers, showing 261–280 of 696

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

    Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe

    Barrio‐Hernandez, Yeo, Jänes et al. · Nature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Using this method, we have clustered all of the structures in the AlphaFold database, identifying 2.30 million non-singleton structural clusters, of which 31% lack annotations representing probable previously undescribed structures.”
    2. Unchecked“Clusters without annotation tend to have few representatives covering only 4% of all proteins in the AlphaFold database.”
  2. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Reproducibility of R‐fMRI metrics on the impact of different strategies for multiple comparison correction and sample sizes

    Chen, Bin Lu and Yan · Human Brain Mapping · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Small sample sizes (e.g., < 80 [40 per group]) not only minimized power (sensitivity < 2%), but also decreased the likelihood that significant results reflect “true” effects (PPV < 0.26) in sex differences.”
  3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Channel Pruning for Accelerating Very Deep Neural Networks

    He, Zhang and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Our pruned VGG-16 achieves the state-of-the-art results by 5x speed-up along with only 0.3% increase of error.”
  4. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Evaluating explorative prediction power of machine learning algorithms for materials discovery using k -fold forward cross-validation

    Xiong, Cui, Liu, Zhao, Hu and Hu · Computational Materials Science · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Our results show that even though current machine learning models can achieve good results when evaluated with traditional CV, their explorative power is actually very low as shown by our proposed km FCV evaluation method and the proposed exploration accurac…
  5. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Enhancing materials property prediction by leveraging computational and experimental data using deep transfer learning

    Jha, Choudhary, Tavazza et al. · Nature Communications · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We build a highly accurate model for predicting formation energy of materials from their compositions; using an experimental data set of $$1,643$$ 1 , 643 observations, the proposed approach yields a mean absolute error (MAE) of $$0.07$$ 0.07 eV/atom, which…
  6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment

    Derdikman, Whitlock, Tsao et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We saw similar discontinuities among place cells in the hippocampus.”
    2. Unchecked“No fragmentation was observed when the rats followed similar trajectories in the absence of internal walls, implying that stereotypic behavior alone cannot explain the compartmentalization.”
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Transformer protein language models are unsupervised structure learners

    Rao, Meier, Sercu, Ovchinnikov and Rives · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper we demonstrate that Transformer attention maps learn contacts from the unsupervised language modeling objective.”
    2. Unchecked“We find the highest capacity models that have been trained to date already outperform a state-of-the-art unsupervised contact prediction pipeline, suggesting these pipelines can be replaced with a single forward pass of an end-to-end model.”
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning

    Lewis, Hempel, Jiménez-Luna et al. · Science · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“It captures diverse functional motions—including cryptic pocket formation, local unfolding, and domain rearrangements—and predicts relative free energies with 1 kilocalorie per mole accuracy compared with millisecond-scale MD and experimental data.”
  9. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The Human Connectome Project: A retrospective

    Elam, Glasser, Harms et al. · NeuroImage · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“The "HCP-style" neuroimaging paradigm has emerged as a set of best-practice strategies for optimizing data acquisition and analysis.”
  10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Approximating the unsatisfiability threshold of random formulas

    Kirousis, Kranakis, Kriz̧anc and Stamatiou · Random Structures and Algorithms · 1998

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    1. Unchecked“By letting the expected value of the first term of the sequence converge to zero, we obtain, by simple and elementary computations, an upper bound for κ equal to 4.667.”
    2. Unchecked“This technique generalizes in a straightforward manner to k-SAT for k>3.”
  11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    A Comprehensive Measurement of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant with 1 km/s/Mpc Uncertainty from the Hubble Space Telescope and the SH0ES Team

    Riess, Yuan, Macri et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Our baseline result from the Cepheid-SN sample is H0=73.04+-1.04 km/s/Mpc, which includes systematics and lies near the median of all analysis variants.”
  12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    OSSOS. VII. 800+ Trans-Neptunian Objects—The Complete Data Release

    Bannister, Gladman, Kavelaars et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“OSSOS doubles the known population of the non-resonant Kuiper belt, providing 436 TNOs in this region, all with exceptionally high-quality orbits of $a$ uncertainty $σ_{a} \leq 0.1\%$; they show the belt exists from $a \gtrsim 37$ au, with a lower perihelion…
    2. Unchecked“Our 313 resonant TNOs, including 132 plutinos, triple the available characterized sample and include new occupancy of distant resonances out to semi-major axis $a \sim 130$ au.”
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Learning generative models for protein fold families

    Balakrishnan, Kamisetty, Carbonell, Lee and LANGMEAD · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“We perform a detailed analysis of covariation statistics on the extensively studied WW and PDZ domains and show that our method out‐performs an existing algorithm for learning undirected probabilistic graphical models from MSA.”
    2. Unchecked“We formulate and solve a convex optimization problem, thus guaranteeing that we find a globally optimal model at convergence.”
    3. Unchecked“We then apply our approach to 71 additional families from the PFAM database and demonstrate that the resulting models significantly out‐perform Hidden Markov Models in terms of predictive accuracy.”
  14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

    BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models

    Vig, Madani, Varshney, Xiong, Socher and Rajani · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We show that attention: (1) captures the folding structure of proteins, connecting amino acids that are far apart in the underlying sequence, but spatially close in the three-dimensional structure, (2) targets binding sites, a key functional component of pro…
  15. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1508.05315

    arXiv 1508.05315: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Our model's accuracy can be improved systematically, reaching 0.1 eV/atom for a training set consisting of 10 k crystals.”
    2. Unchecked“Out of 2 M crystals, 90 unique structures are predicted to be on the convex hull---among which NFAl$_2$Ca$_6$, with peculiar stoichiometry and a negative atomic oxidation state for Al.”
    3. Unchecked“Low formation energies result from A and B being late elements from group (II), C being a late (I) element, and D being fluoride.”
  16. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Representation of compounds for machine-learning prediction of physical properties

    Seko, Hayashi, Nakayama, Takahashi and Tanaka · Physical review. B./Physical review. B · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“As a result, we obtain a kernel ridge prediction model with a prediction error of 0.041 eV/atom, which is close to the "chemical accuracy" of 1 kcal/mol (0.043 eV/atom).”
  17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Specific evidence of low-dimensional continuous attractor dynamics in grid cells

    Yoon, Buice, Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Fiete · Nature Neuroscience · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“Among grid cells with similar spatial periods, the population activity was confined to lie close to a two-dimensional (2D) manifold: grid cells differed only along two dimensions of their responses and otherwise were nearly identical.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

    Trujillo and Sheppard · Nature · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The detection of 2012 VP113 confirms that Sedna is not an isolated object; instead, both bodies may be members of the inner Oort cloud, whose objects could outnumber all other dynamically stable populations in the Solar System.”
  19. Computer Science

    Solving and Verifying the boolean Pythagorean Triples problem via Cube-and-Conquer

    Heule, Kullmann and Marek · SAT 2016 · 2016 · arXiv 1605.00723

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    1. Unchecked“We solve this problem, proving in fact the impossibility, by using the Cube-and-Conquer paradigm, a hybrid SAT method for hard problems, employing both look-ahead and CDCL solvers.”
  20. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks

    Advani, Saxe and Sompolinsky · Neural Networks · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Overtraining is worst at intermediate network sizes, when the effective number of free parameters equals the number of samples, and thus can be reduced by making a network smaller or larger.”
    2. Unchecked“We identify two novel phenomena underlying this behavior in overcomplete models: first, there is a frozen subspace of the weights in which no learning occurs under gradient descent; and second, the statistical properties of the high-dimensional regime yield…
    3. Unchecked“Additionally, in the high-dimensional regime, low generalization error requires starting with small initial weights.”

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