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1,248 claims from 785 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,202 have no check with a result yet.

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1,202 claims from 742 papers, showing 401–420 of 742

1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   Pangu-Weather: A 3D High-Resolution Model for Fast and Accurate Global Weather Forecast

   Bi, Xie, Zhang, Chen, Gu and Tian · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“There are two key strategies to improve the prediction accuracy: (i) designing a 3D Earth Specific Transformer (3DEST) architecture that formulates the height (pressure level) information into cubic data, and (ii) applying a hierarchical temporal aggregation…

2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Network Pruning via Performance Maximization

   Gao, Huang, Cai and Huang · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Extensive experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve state-of-the-art performance with ResNet, MobileNetV2, and ShuffleNetV2+ on ImageNet and CIFAR-10.”

3. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Data-driven discovery of 2D materials by deep generative models

   Lyngby and Thygesen · npj Computational Materials · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We find that the generative model and lattice decoration approach are complementary and yield materials with similar stability properties but very different crystal structures and chemical compositions.”

4. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Controversies and progress on standardization of large-scale brain network nomenclature

   Uddin, Betzel, Cohen et al. · Network Neuroscience · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“A few well-known network names (e.g., default mode network) dominated responses to the survey, and a number of illuminating points of disagreement emerged.”

5. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Synthetic accessibility and stability rules of NASICONs

   Bin Ouyang, Wang, He et al. · Nature Communications · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“By applying machine learning to the ab-initio computed phase stability of 3881 potential NASICONs we can extract a simple two-dimensional descriptor that is extremely good at separating stable from unstable NASICONS.”
   2. Unchecked“Five out of the six resulted in a phase pure NASICON while the sixth composition led to a NASICON that coexisted with other phases, validating the efficacy of this approach.”

6. Engineering › Optimization and Packing Problems

   Automatic heuristic generation with genetic programming

   Burke, Hyde, Kendall and Woodward · Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) · 2007

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   1. Unchecked“The contribution of this paper is to show that a Genetic Programming system can automate the process of heuristic generation and produce heuristics that are human-competitive over a range of sets of problems, or which excel on a particular sub-set.”
   2. Unchecked“We also show that the choice of training instances is vital in the area of automatic heuristic generation, due to the trade-off between the performance and generality of the heuristics generated and their applicability to new problems.”

7. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   The subsystem mechanism of default mode network underlying rumination: A reproducible neuroimaging study

   Chen, Chen, Shen et al. · NeuroImage · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“During rumination, within-DMN FC was generally decreased as compared to the distraction state.”
   2. Unchecked“At the subsystem level, we found increased FC between the core and medial temporal lobe (MTL) subsystem as well as decreased FC between the core and dorsal medial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC) subsystem and within the MTL subsystem.”
   3. Unchecked“Finally, subjects' behavioral measures of rumination and brooding were negatively correlated with FC between the core and DMPFC subsystems.”

8. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Reproducibility of functional brain alterations in major depressive disorder: Evidence from a multisite resting-state functional MRI study with 1,434 individuals

   Xia, Si, Sun et al. · NeuroImage · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“We observed significant hypoactivity in the orbitofrontal, sensorimotor, and visual cortices and hyperactivity in the frontoparietal cortices in MDD patients compared to the controls.”
   2. Unchecked“These alterations are not affected by different statistical analysis strategies, global signal regression and medication status and are generally reproducible across centers.”
   3. Unchecked“Bootstrap analyses reveal that at least 400 subjects in each group are required to replicate significant alterations (an extent threshold of P < .05 and a height threshold of P < .001) at 50% reproducibility.”

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Using non-DESI data to confirm and strengthen the DESI 2024 spatially flat w 0 w a CDM cosmological parametrization result

   Park, Pérez and Ratra · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“From our joint compilation of CMB and non-CMB data, in a spatially-flat cosmological model, we obtain $w_0 = -0.850 \pm 0.059$ and $w_a = -0.59^{+0.26}_{-0.22}$ and find that this dynamical dark energy is favored over a cosmological constant by $\sim 2σ$.”

10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome

    Sun, Zhao, Liang et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“After constructing a fine-grained, lifespan-wide suite of system-level brain atlases, we show distinct maturation timelines for functional segregation within different systems.”
    2. Unchecked“Lifespan growth of regional connectivity is organized along a spatiotemporal cortical axis, transitioning from primary sensorimotor regions to higher-order association regions.”

11. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Does parametric fMRI analysis with SPM yield valid results?—An empirical study of 1484 rest datasets

    Eklund, Andersson, Josephson, Johannesson and Knutsson · NeuroImage · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“For a familywise significance threshold of 5%, significant activity was found in 1%-70% of the 1484 rest datasets, depending on repetition time, paradigm and parameter settings.”
    2. Unchecked“The main reason for the high familywise error rates seems to be that the global AR(1) auto correlation correction in SPM fails to model the spectra of the residuals, especially for short repetition times.”
    3. Unchecked“Significant activity was then found in 1%-19% of the datasets.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Interpreting DESI 2024 BAO: Late-time dynamical dark energy or a local effect?

    Gialamas, Hütsi, Kannike et al. · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“We find that this result is driven by low-$z$ supernova data.”

13. Mathematics › Analytic Number Theory Research

    On the Random Character of Fundamental Constant Expansions

    Bailey and Crandall · Experimental Mathematics · 2001

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    1. Unchecked“On this main hypothesis, one obtains proofs of base-2 normality—namely bit randomness in a specific technical sense—for a collection of celebrated constants, including π, log 2, ζ(3), and others.”

14. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    GhostNet: More Features from Cheap Operations

    Han, Wang, Tian, Guo, Xu and Xu · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Experiments conducted on benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed Ghost module is an impressive alternative of convolution layers in baseline models, and our GhostNet can achieve higher recognition performance (e.g. $75.7\%$ top-1 accuracy) than MobileNetV3…

15. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

    TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

    Lin, Hilton and Evans · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“The best model was truthful on 58% of questions, while human performance was 94%.”

16. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Machine Learning Methods for Weather Forecasting: A Survey

    Zhang, Liu, Zhang and Li · Atmosphere · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Research on specific tasks such as global weather forecasting, downscaling, extreme weather prediction, and how to combine machine learning methods with physical principles are very active in the current field.”
    2. Unchecked“However, several unresolved or challenging issues remain, including the interpretability of models and the ability to predict rare weather events.”

17. Environmental Science › Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

    Birth of protein folds and functions in the virome

    Nomburg, Doherty, Price, Bellieny‐Rabelo, Zhu and Doudna · Nature · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Experimental analysis showed that RNA ligase T homologues encoded by avian poxviruses similarly hydrolyse cGAMP, showing that RNA ligase T-mediated targeting of cGAMP is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism of immune evasion that is present in both bacterio…

18. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Deep learning generalizes because the parameter-function map is biased towards simple functions

    Valle-Pérez, Camargo and Louis · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“By exploiting recently discovered connections between DNNs and Gaussian processes to estimate the marginal likelihood, we produce relatively tight generalization PAC-Bayes error bounds which correlate well with the true error on realistic datasets such as MN…

19. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Limits on primordial non-Gaussianities from BOSS galaxy-clustering data

    D’Amico, Lewandowski, Senatore and Zhang · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“After validating our analysis against simulations, we find $f_{\rm NL}^{\rm equil.}= 207 \pm 292\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm orth.}= -68 \pm 73\, , f_{\rm NL}^{\rm loc.}= 52 \pm 34$, at $68\%$ confidence level.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Pantheon+ Analysis: Evaluating Peculiar Velocity Corrections in Cosmological Analyses with Nearby Type Ia Supernovae

    Peterson, Kenworthy, Scolnic et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find the optimal flow corrections derived from various local density maps significantly reduce Hubble residuals while raising $H_0$ by $\sim0.4$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ as compared to using CMB redshifts, disfavoring the hypothesis that unrecognized local…
    2. Unchecked“We estimate that the systematic uncertainties in cosmological parameters after optimally correcting redshifts are 0.06-0.11 km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ in $H_0$ and 0.02-0.03 in $w$ which are smaller than the statistical uncertainties for these measurements: 1.5…