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1,212 claims from 763 papers are on the record. 44 have been checked so far; the other 1,168 have no check with a result yet.

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1,168 claims from 722 papers, showing 301–320 of 722

  1. 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.”
  2. 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.”
  3. 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…
  4. 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.”
  5. 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.”
  6. 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.”
  7. 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.”
  8. 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.”
  9. 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.”
  10. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    Linear Level Lasserre Lower Bounds for Certain k-CSPs

    Schoenebeck · Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“This is the first construction of a Lasserre integrality gap.”
  11. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge

    Singhal, Azizi, Tao et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Using a combination of prompting strategies, Flan-PaLM achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on every MultiMedQA multiple-choice dataset (MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, MMLU clinical topics), including 67.6% accuracy on MedQA (US Medical License Exam questions), sur…
    2. Unchecked“The resulting model, Med-PaLM, performs encouragingly, but remains inferior to clinicians.”
    3. Unchecked“We show that comprehension, recall of knowledge, and medical reasoning improve with model scale and instruction prompt tuning, suggesting the potential utility of LLMs in medicine.”
  12. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

    Default Risk of Advanced Economies: An Empirical Analysis of Credit Default Swaps during the Financial Crisis

    Dieckmann and Plank · European Finance Review · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Our results suggest the presence of a private-to-public risk transfer through which market participants incorporate their expectations about financial industry bailouts.”
  13. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Learning Filter Pruning Criteria for Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Acceleration

    He, Ding, Liu, Zhu, Zhang and Yang · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Notably, on ILSVRC-2012, our LFPC reduces more than 60% FLOPs on ResNet-50 with only 0.83% top-5 accuracy loss.”
  14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    The Cognitive Architecture of Spatial Navigation: Hippocampal and Striatal Contributions

    Chersi and Burgess · Neuron · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“The resulting architecture includes striatal reinforcement learning based on egocentric representations of sensory states and actions, incidental Hebbian association of sensory information with allocentric state representations in the hippocampus, and arbitr…
  15. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Mick Gets Some (the Odds Are on His Side)

    Chvátal and Reed · OpenGrey (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique) · 1992

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    1. Unchecked“In addition, we establish a threshold for 2-SAT; if k = 2 then F is satisfiable with probability 1 - o(1) whenever c < 1 and unsatisfiable with probability 1 - o(1) whenever c > 1.”
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Sub‐Seasonal Forecasting With a Large Ensemble of Deep‐Learning Weather Prediction Models

    Weyn, Durran, Caruana and Cresswell‐Clay · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Averaged globally and over a two-year test set, the ensemble mean RMSE retains skill relative to climatology beyond two-weeks, with anomaly correlation coefficients remaining above 0.6 through six days.”
    2. Unchecked“The continuous ranked probability score (CRPS) and the ranked probability skill score (RPSS) show that the DLWP ensemble is only modestly inferior in performance to the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) S2S ensemble over land at lead…
  17. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    ShuffleNet V2: Practical Guidelines for Efficient CNN Architecture Design

    Ma, Zhang, Zheng and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Comprehensive ablation experiments verify that our model is the state-of-the-art in terms of speed and accuracy tradeoff.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    THE ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION OF KUIPER BELT OBJECTS

    Fraser, Brown, Morbidelli, Parker and Batygin · The Astrophysical Journal · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The cold population has a bright-end slope, $α_{\textrm{1}}=1.5_{-0.2}^{+0.4}$, and break magnitude, $H_{\textrm{B}}=6.9_{-0.2}^{+0.1}$ (r'-band).”
    2. Unchecked“We estimate the masses of the hot and cold populations are $\sim0.01$ and $\sim3\times10^{-4} \mbox{ M$_{\bigoplus}$}$.”
  19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Shearing-induced asymmetry in entorhinal grid cells

    Stensola, Stensola, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Reversing the ellipticity analytically by a shearing transformation removes the angular offset.”
  20. Computer Science › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

    VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models

    Ji, Yin, Ping, Molchanov, Shoeybi and Han · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“With an enhanced pre-training recipe we build VILA, a Visual Language model family that consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art models, e.g., LLaVA-1.5, across main benchmarks without bells and whistles.”
    2. Unchecked“Multi-modal pre-training also helps unveil appealing properties of VILA, including multi-image reasoning, enhanced in-context learning, and better world knowledge.”

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