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1,168 claims from 737 papers are on the record. 43 have been checked so far; the other 1,125 have no check with a result yet.

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1,125 claims from 697 papers, showing 281–300 of 697

1. 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…

2. Physics and Astronomy

   arXiv 1508.05315

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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.”

3. 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).”

4. 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.”

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

7. 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.”

8. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model

   Smith, Patwary, Norick et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that MT-NLG achieves superior zero-, one-, and few-shot learning accuracies on several NLP benchmarks and establishes new state-of-the-art results.”

9. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Map Making: Constructing, Combining, and Inferring on Abstract Cognitive Maps

   Park, Miller, Nili, Ranganath and Boorman · Neuron · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Although one dimension was behaviorally relevant, multivariate activity patterns in HC, EC, and vmPFC/mOFC were linearly related to the Euclidean distance between people in the mentally reconstructed 2D space.”
   2. Unchecked“We found that both behavior and neural activity in EC and vmPFC/mOFC reflected the Euclidean distance to the retrieved hub, which was reinstated in HC.”

10. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Generative AI for Economic Research: Use Cases and Implications for Economists

    Korinek · Journal of Economic Literature · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“I argue that economists can reap significant productivity gains by taking advantage of generative AI to automate micro-tasks.”

11. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

    BigScience, :, Le et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find that BLOOM achieves competitive performance on a wide variety of benchmarks, with stronger results after undergoing multitask prompted finetuning.”

12. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    A critical examination of compound stability predictions from machine-learned formation energies

    Bartel, Trewartha, Wang, Dunn, Jain and Ceder · npj Computational Materials · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“By testing seven machine learning models for formation energy on stability predictions using the Materials Project database of DFT calculations for 85,014 unique chemical compositions, we show that while formation energies can indeed be predicted well, all c…
    2. Unchecked“Most critically, in sparse chemical spaces where few stoichiometries have stable compounds, only the structural model is capable of efficiently detecting which materials are stable.”
    3. Unchecked“This work demonstrates that accurate predictions of formation energy do not imply accurate predictions of stability, emphasizing the importance of assessing model performance on stability predictions, for which we provide a set of publicly available tests.”

13. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Individual-Specific Areal-Level Parcellations Improve Functional Connectivity Prediction of Behavior

    Kong, Yang, Gordon et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Resting-state functional connectivity derived from MS-HBM parcellations also achieved the best behavioral prediction performance.”
    2. Unchecked“Among the three MS-HBM variants, the strictly contiguous MS-HBM exhibited the best resting-state homogeneity and most uniform within-parcel task activation.”

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

    Atomic context-conditioned protein sequence design using LigandMPNN

    Dauparas, Lee, Pecoraro et al. · Nature Methods · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“LigandMPNN significantly outperforms Rosetta and ProteinMPNN on native backbone sequence recovery for residues interacting with small molecules (63.3% versus 50.4% and 50.5%), nucleotides (50.5% versus 35.2% and 34.0%) and metals (77.5% versus 36.0% and 40.6…

15. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Developing an improved crystal graph convolutional neural network framework for accelerated materials discovery

    Park and Wolverton · Physical Review Materials · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Second, when used to assist high-throughput search for materials in the ThCr2Si2 structure-type, iCGCNN exhibited a success rate of 31% which is 310 times higher than an undirected high-throughput search and 2.4 times higher than that of the original CGCNN.”

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

    Public Debt and Growth

    Woo and Kumar · Economica · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“The adverse effect largely reflects a slowdown in labour productivity growth mainly due to slower capital accumulation.”

17. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    XNOR-Net: ImageNet Classification Using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks

    Rastegari, Ordóñez, Redmon and Farhadi · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“This results in 58x faster convolutional operations and 32x memory savings.”
    2. Unchecked“We compare our method with recent network binarization methods, BinaryConnect and BinaryNets, and outperform these methods by large margins on ImageNet, more than 16% in top-1 accuracy.”

18. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders

    Segal, Parkes, Aquino et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Normative models indicated that person-specific deviations from population expectations for regional GMV were highly heterogeneous, affecting the same area in <7% of people with the same diagnosis.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    NEPTUNE’S ORBITAL MIGRATION WAS GRAINY, NOT SMOOTH

    Nesvorný and Vokrouhlický · The Astrophysical Journal · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Thus, the non-resonant--to--resonant ratio obtained with the grainy migration is higher, up to ~10 times higher for the range of parameters investigated here, than in a model with smooth migration.”
    2. Unchecked“The grainy migration leads to a narrower distribution of the libration amplitudes in the 3:2 resonance.”

20. Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science

    Could a Large Language Model be Conscious?

    Chalmers · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“I conclude that while it is somewhat unlikely that current large language models are conscious, we should take seriously the possibility that successors to large language models may be conscious in the not-too-distant future.”