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1,203 claims from 743 papers, showing 381–400 of 743

1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Discrimination-aware Network Pruning for Deep Model Compression

   Liu, Zhuang, Zhuang et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“For example, on ILSVRC-12, the resultant ResNet-50 model with 30% reduction of channels even outperforms the baseline model by 0.36% in terms of Top-1 accuracy.”
   2. Unchecked“The pruned MobileNetV1 and MobileNetV2 achieve 1.93x and 1.42x inference acceleration on a mobile device, respectively, with negligible performance degradation.”

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

   Uncovering new families and folds in the natural protein universe

   Durairaj, Waterhouse, Mets et al. · Nature · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“By searching for novelties from sequence, structure and semantic perspectives, we uncovered the β-flower fold, added several protein families to Pfam database 2 and experimentally demonstrated that one of these belongs to a new superfamily of translation-tar…

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

   Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold

   Kim, Lee, Karin et al. · Nature Protocols · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“ColabFold-AF2 shortens turnaround times of experiments because of its optimized usage of AF2's models.”
   2. Unchecked“Using Google Colaboratory, it takes <2 h to run each procedure.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Development of the default-mode network during childhood and adolescence: A longitudinal resting-state fMRI study

   Fan, Liao, Lei et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“We showed that the overall connectivity increased in strength from childhood to adolescence and became spatially similar to that in the young adult group (N = 61, 18-28 years of age).”
   2. Unchecked“Global and local network efficiency in the DMN also increased with age, indicating an enhanced capability in parallel information communication within the brain system.”
   3. Unchecked“Based on the divergent developmental rates of nodal centrality, we identified three subclusters within the DMN, with the fastest rates in the cluster mainly comprising the anterior medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cingulate cortex.”

5. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   A critical examination of robustness and generalizability of machine learning prediction of materials properties

   Li, DeCost, Choudhary, Greenwood and Hattrick-Simpers · npj Computational Materials · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“We find the source of the predictive degradation is due to the distribution shift between the MP18 and MP21 versions.”

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

   Protein language-model embeddings for fast, accurate, and alignment-free protein structure prediction

   Weißenow, Heinzinger and Rost · Structure · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Our new method, EMBER2, which never requires any MSAs, performed similarly to other methods that fully rely on co-evolution.”

7. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   RETENTION OF A PRIMORDIAL COLD CLASSICAL KUIPER BELT IN AN INSTABILITY-DRIVEN MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM FORMATION

   Batygin, Brown and Fraser · The Astrophysical Journal · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“We develop a simple analytical model for secular excitation of cold KBOs and show that comparatively fast apsidal precession and nodal recession of Neptune, during the eccentric phase, are essential for preservation of an unexcited state in the cold classica…
   2. Unchecked“We further show that contamination of the hot classical and scattered populations by objects of similar nature to that of cold classicals has been instrumental in shaping the vast physical diversity inherent to the Kuiper belt.”

8. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

   Nonuniform ACC Circuit Lower Bounds

   Williams · Journal of the ACM · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“NEXP, the class of languages accepted in nondeterministic exponential time, does not have nonuniform ACC circuits of polynomial size.”

9. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

   A review of metaheuristic algorithms for solving TSP-based scheduling optimization problems

   Toaza and Esztergár‐Kiss · Applied Soft Computing · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“The results demonstrate that the most applied metaheuristic algorithm is the genetic algorithm, but the ant colony optimization algorithm is the most popular one based on the number of citations.”

10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A variational description of the ground state structure in random satisfiability problems

    Biroli, Monasson and Weigt · The European Physical Journal B · 2000

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    1. Unchecked“At the second threshold $α_c \simeq 4.48$, satisfying assignments disappear and a finite fraction $B_0 \simeq 0.13$ of variables are overconstrained and take the same values in all optimal (though unsatisfying) assignments.”
    2. Unchecked“At the first one $α_s \simeq 3.96$, a non-trivial organization of the solution space in geometrically separated clusters emerges.”
    3. Unchecked“For the mixed $2+p$-SAT with $p<2/5$, the behavior is as expected much simpler: a unique smooth transition from SAT to UNSAT takes place at $α_c=1/(1-p)$.”

11. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A new look at survey propagation and its generalizations

    Maneva, Mossel and Wainwright · Journal of the ACM · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“We then show that applying belief propagation---a well-known “message-passing” technique for estimating marginal probabilities---to this family of MRFs recovers a known family of algorithms, ranging from pure survey propagation at one extreme (ρ = 1) to stan…
    2. Unchecked“To that end, we investigate the associated lattice structure, and prove a weight-preserving identity that shows how any MRF with ρ > 0 can be viewed as a “smoothed” version of the uniform distribution over satisfying assignments (ρ = 0).”

12. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Intrinsic functional network architecture of human semantic processing: Modules and hubs

    Xu, Lin, Han, He and Bi · NeuroImage · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Focusing on areas consistently activated during semantic processing generated from a meta-analysis of 120 neuroimaging studies (Binder et al., 2009), we found that these regions were organized into three stable modules corresponding to the default mode netwo…
    2. Unchecked“Provincial hubs, which converge local information within each system, were also identified: the bilateral posterior cingulate cortices/precuneus, the bilateral border area of the posterior AG and the superior lateral occipital gyrus for Module DMN; the left…

13. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Picking Winning Tickets Before Training by Preserving Gradient Flow

    Wang, Zhang and Grosse · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Our method can prune 80% of the weights of a VGG-16 network on ImageNet at initialization, with only a 1.6% drop in top-1 accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, our method achieves significantly better performance than the baseline at extreme sparsity levels.”

14. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    FengWu: Pushing the Skillful Global Medium-range Weather Forecast beyond 10 Days Lead

    Chen, Han, Gong et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“In addition, the inference cost of each iteration is merely 600ms on NVIDIA Tesla A100 hardware.”
    2. Unchecked“The results suggest that FengWu can significantly improve the forecast skill and extend the skillful global medium-range weather forecast out to 10.75 days lead (with ACC of z500 > 0.6) for the first time.”

15. Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science

    Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness

    Ferrante, Górska, Henin et al. · Nature · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“These results align with some predictions of IIT and GNWT, while substantially challenging key tenets of both theories. For IIT, a lack of sustained synchronization within the posterior cortex contradicts the claim that network connectivity specifies conscio…

16. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    The DIRECT consortium and the REST-meta-MDD project: towards neuroimaging biomarkers of major depressive disorder

    Chen, Bin Lu, Li et al. · Psychoradiology · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Findings from the first round of analyses of the pooled repository have included alterations in functional connectivity within the default mode network, in whole-brain topological properties, in dynamic features, and in functional lateralization.”

17. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Nonparametric late-time expansion history reconstruction and implications for the Hubble tension in light of recent DESI and type Ia supernovae data

    Jiang, Pedrotti, da Costa and Vagnozzi · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Applied to DESI BAO and PantheonPlus SNeIa data, both methods indicate that deviations from a reference $Λ$CDM model in the $z \lesssim 2$ unnormalized expansion rate $E(z)$ are constrained to be $\lesssim 10\%$, but also consistently identify two features i…
    2. Unchecked“Breaking the $r_d$-$H_0$ degeneracy with the SH0ES prior on $H_0$, the significance of the tension between our nonparametric determination of $r_d=136.20^{+2.20}_{-2.40}\,{\text{Mpc}}$ and the \textit{Planck} $Λ$CDM-based determination is at the $5σ$ level,…
    3. Unchecked“We infer $c/(r_dH_0)=29.90 \pm 0.33$, with $r_d$ the sound horizon at baryon drag and $H_0$ the Hubble constant.”

18. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

    Liang, Bommasani, Lee et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We improve this to 96.0%: now all 30 models have been densely benchmarked on the same core scenarios and metrics under standardized conditions.”
    2. Unchecked“Prior to HELM, models on average were evaluated on just 17.9% of the core HELM scenarios, with some prominent models not sharing a single scenario in common.”

19. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Forecasting Global Weather with Graph Neural Networks

    Keisler · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Test performance on metrics such as Z500 (geopotential height) and T850 (temperature) improves upon previous data-driven approaches and is comparable to operational, full-resolution, physical models from GFS and ECMWF, at least when evaluated on 1-degree sca…

20. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Going after the k-SAT threshold

    Coja-Oghlan and Panagiotou · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“This technique enables us to compute the $k$-SAT threshold up to an additive $\ln2-\frac12+O(1/k)\approx 0.19$.”