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48 claims from 30 papers, showing 21–30 of 30

1. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

   Chung, Le Hou, Longpre et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“For instance, Flan-PaLM 540B instruction-finetuned on 1.8K tasks outperforms PALM 540B by a large margin (+9.4% on average).”
   2. Unchecked“Flan-PaLM 540B achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, such as 75.2% on five-shot MMLU.”
   3. Unchecked“We find that instruction finetuning with the above aspects dramatically improves performance on a variety of model classes (PaLM, T5, U-PaLM), prompting setups (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT), and evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA, MGSM, open-ended generat…

2. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

   Zhang, Bengio, Hardt, Recht and Vinyals · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data.”
   2. Unchecked“This phenomenon is qualitatively unaffected by explicit regularization, and occurs even if we replace the true images by completely unstructured random noise.”

3. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

   Jason, Tay, Bommasani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Thus, emergent abilities cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models.”

4. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models

   Dagdelen, Dunn, Lee et al. · Nature Communications · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.”

5. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

   Wang, Jason, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that self-consistency boosts the performance of chain-of-thought prompting with a striking margin on a range of popular arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks, including GSM8K (+17.9%), SVAMP (+11.0%), AQuA (…

6. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   A Convergence Theory for Deep Learning via Over-Parameterization

   Allen-Zhu, Li and Song · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“This implies an equivalence between over-parameterized neural networks and neural tangent kernel (NTK) in the finite (and polynomial) width setting.”

7. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

   Hoffmann, Borgeaud, Mensch et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“By training over 400 language models ranging from 70 million to over 16 billion parameters on 5 to 500 billion tokens, we find that for compute-optimal training, the model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equally: for every doubling of…
   2. Unchecked“Chinchilla uniformly and significantly outperforms Gopher (280B), GPT-3 (175B), Jurassic-1 (178B), and Megatron-Turing NLG (530B) on a large range of downstream evaluation tasks.”
   3. Unchecked“As a highlight, Chinchilla reaches a state-of-the-art average accuracy of 67.5% on the MMLU benchmark, greater than a 7% improvement over Gopher.”

8. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

   Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models

   Romera‐Paredes, Barekatain, Novikov et al. · Nature · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Applying FunSearch to a central problem in extremal combinatorics—the cap set problem—we discover new constructions of large cap sets going beyond the best-known ones, both in finite dimensional and asymptotic cases.”

9. 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.”

10. 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.”