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1,280 claims from 801 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,234 have no check with a result yet.

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1,234 claims from 758 papers, showing 441–460 of 758

1. Physics and Astronomy › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

   Sedna and the Oort Cloud around a migrating Sun

   Kaib, Roškar and Quinn · Icarus · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“Contrary to previous understanding, we show that field star encounters play a pivotal role in setting the Oort Cloud's extreme inner edge, and due to their stochastic nature this inner edge sometimes extends to Sedna's orbit.”
   2. Unchecked“The Sun's galactic migration heightens the chance of powerful stellar passages, and Sedna production occurs around ~20-30% of the solar-like stars we study.”
   3. Unchecked“Considering the entire Oort Cloud, we find its median distance depends on the minimum galactocentric distance attained during the Sun's orbital history.”

2. Computer Science › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques

   U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation

   Ronneberger, Philipp and Brox · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Segmentation of a 512x512 image takes less than a second on a recent GPU.”
   2. Unchecked“We show that such a network can be trained end-to-end from very few images and outperforms the prior best method (a sliding-window convolutional network) on the ISBI challenge for segmentation of neuronal structures in electron microscopic stacks.”
   3. Unchecked“Using the same network trained on transmitted light microscopy images (phase contrast and DIC) we won the ISBI cell tracking challenge 2015 in these categories by a large margin.”

3. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   MetaPruning: Meta Learning for Automatic Neural Network Channel Pruning

   Liu, Mu, Zhang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Compared to the state-of-the-art pruning methods, we have demonstrated superior performances on MobileNet V1/V2 and ResNet.”
   2. Unchecked“The search is highly efficient because the weights are directly generated by the trained PruningNet and we do not need any finetuning at search time.”

4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Instability of one-step replica-symmetry-broken phase in satisfiability problems

   A, Parisi and Ricci‐Tersenghi · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“It turns out that 1RSB is always unstable at sufficiently small clauses density alpha or high energy.”
   2. Unchecked“On the other hand, the SAT-UNSAT phase transition seems to be correctly described within 1RSB.”

5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

   Survey propagation as local equilibrium equations

   Braunstein and Zecchina · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2004

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   1. Unchecked“We show that these equations can be derived as sum-product equations for the computation of marginals in an extended space where the variables are allowed to take an additional value -- $*$ -- when they are not forced by the combinatorial constraints.”

6. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity

   Kusupati, Ramanujan, Somani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“Notably, STR boosts the accuracy over existing results by up to 10% in the ultra sparse (99%) regime and can also be used to induce low-rank (structured sparsity) in RNNs.”

7. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

   End-to-end data-driven weather prediction

   Allén, Markou, Tebbutt et al. · Nature · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“The global forecasts outperform an operational NWP baseline for several variables and lead times.”

8. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Drawing Early-Bird Tickets: Towards More Efficient Training of Deep Networks

   You, Li, Xu et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“In this paper, we discover for the first time that the winning tickets can be identified at the very early training stage, which we term as early-bird (EB) tickets, via low-cost training schemes (e.g., early stopping and low-precision training) at large lear…

9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

   Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

   Perlmutter, Aldering, Goldhaber et al. · Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) · 1998

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   1. Unchecked“The measurement yields a joint probability distribution of the cosmological parameters that is approximated by the relation 0.8 Omega_M - 0.6 Omega_Lambda ~= -0.2 +/- 0.1 in the region of interest (Omega_M <~ 1.5).”
   2. Unchecked“For a flat (Omega_M + Omega_Lambda = 1) cosmology we find Omega_M = 0.28{+0.09,-0.08} (1 sigma statistical) {+0.05,-0.04} (identified systematics).”
   3. Unchecked“An open, Lambda = 0 cosmology also does not fit the data well: the data indicate that the cosmological constant is non-zero and positive, with a confidence of P(Lambda > 0) = 99%, including the identified systematic uncertainties.”

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

    Do higher public debt levels reduce economic growth?

    Heimberger · Journal of Economic Surveys · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“However, we cannot reject a zero effect after correcting for publication bias.”
    2. Unchecked“In testing for nonlinear effects, our results do not point to a uniform public‐debt‐to‐GDP threshold beyond which growth slows.”

11. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Information-theoretic thresholds from the cavity method

    Coja‐Oghlan, Krząkała, Perkins and Zdeborová · Advances in Mathematics · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Further, we prove the conjecture from [Krzakala et al.: PNAS 2007] about the condensation phase transition in the random graph coloring problem for any number $q\geq3$ of colors.”

12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Reassessing the formation of the inner Oort cloud in an embedded star cluster

    Brasser, Duncan, Levison, Schwamb and Brown · Icarus · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“All inner Oort clouds formed are consistent with the existence of (90377) Sedna, an inner Oort cloud dwarf planetoid, at the inner edge of the cloud: Sedna tends to be at the innermost 2% for Plummer models, while it is 5% for Hernquist models.”

13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Constraining the Giant Planets’ Initial Configuration from Their Evolution: Implications for the Timing of the Planetary Instability

    Deienno, Morbidelli, Gomes and Nesvorný · The Astronomical Journal · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“We conclude that, although an early instability reproduces more easily the evolution of Neptune required to explain the structure of the Kuiper belt, such evolution is also compatible with a late instability.”

14. Materials Science › Enzyme Structure and Function

    RCSB Protein Data Bank: Efficient Searching and Simultaneous Access to One Million Computed Structure Models Alongside the PDB Structures Enabled by Architectural Advances

    Bittrich, Bhikadiya, Bi et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Both CSMs and PDB structures are available on RCSB.org and via well-established RCSB PDB Data, Search, and 1D-Coordinates application programming interfaces (APIs).”

15. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    ACNet: Strengthening the Kernel Skeletons for Powerful CNN via Asymmetric Convolution Blocks

    Ding, Guo, Ding and Han · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“After training, we equivalently convert the ACNet into the same original architecture, thus requiring no extra computations anymore.”
    2. Unchecked“Through further experiments, we attribute the effectiveness of ACB to its capability of enhancing the model's robustness to rotational distortions and strengthening the central skeleton parts of square convolution kernels.”

16. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Can large language models reason about medical questions?

    Liévin, Hother, Geert and Ole · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Based on an expert annotation of the generated CoTs, we found that InstructGPT can often read, reason and recall expert knowledge.”
    2. Unchecked“Last, by leveraging advances in prompt engineering (few-shot and ensemble methods), we demonstrated that GPT-3.5 not only yields calibrated predictive distributions, but also reaches the passing score on three datasets: MedQA-USMLE 60.2%, MedMCQA 62.7% and P…
    3. Unchecked“Open-source models are closing the gap: Llama-2 70B also passed the MedQA-USMLE with 62.5% accuracy.”

17. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Characterizing Speed Cells in the Rat Hippocampus

    Góis and Tort · Cell Reports · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, their speed-correlated firing occurs within theta cycles, independently of theta frequency.”

18. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    An overview of what current data can (and cannot yet) say about evolving dark energy

    Giarè, Mahassen, Di Valentino and Pan · Physics of the Dark Universe · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“However, intriguing hints supporting DDE emerge in combinations that do not include DESI-BAO measurements: SDSS-BAO combined with SN from Union3 and DESY5 (with and without CMB) support the preference for DDE.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    INSTABILITY-DRIVEN DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION MODEL OF A PRIMORDIALLY FIVE-PLANET OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

    Batygin, Brown and Betts · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Particularly, our simulations demonstrate that the eigenmodes which characterize the outer solar system's secular dynamics can be closely matched with a 5-planet model.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, provided that the ejection timescale of the extra planet is short, orbital excitation of a primordial cold classical Kuiper belt can also be avoided in this scenario.”

20. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Dynamical evidence for an early giant planet instability

    de Sousa, Morbidelli, Raymond, Izidoro, Gomes and Neto · Icarus · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Among self-stable systems -- where the planets are locked in a resonant chain that remains stable in the absence of a planetesimal's disk-- our self-consistently sculpted planetesimal disks nonetheless trigger a giant planet instability with a median instabi…
    2. Unchecked“The simulations that give the latest instability times are those that invoked long-range inward migration of Jupiter from 15 AU or beyond; however these simulations over-excited the inclinations of Kuiper belt objects and are inconsistent with the present-da…