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1,234 claims from 758 papers, showing 461–480 of 758

  1. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    THE ALBEDO-COLOR DIVERSITY OF TRANSNEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

    Lacerda, Fornasier, Lellouch et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“This color-albedo separation is evidence for a compositional discontinuity in the young solar system.”
  2. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Statistical mechanics of the random K -satisfiability model

    Monasson and Zecchina · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics · 1997

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    1. Unchecked“The annealed approximation is proven to be exact for large K.”
  3. Social Sciences › Geographic Information Systems Studies

    MapGPT: an autonomous framework for mapping by integrating large language model and cartographic tools

    Zhang, He, Li, Lin, Guan and Yu · Cartography and Geographic Information Science · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“With these tools, a large language model is used to first understand the demand of users based on mere natural language descriptions, and subsequently automatically invoke appropriate tools in sequence to generate a map.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, by utilizing a memory component to store interaction information, users can interact with MapGPT through conversation to adjust map elements such as color and position.”
  4. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Threshold Saturation in Spatially Coupled Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Hassani, Macris and Urbanke · Journal of Statistical Physics · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“Namely, the condensation threshold is not affected by coupling, but the dynamic threshold displays saturation towards the condensation one.”
    2. Unchecked“We prove that the SAT-UNSAT phase transition threshold of an infinite chain is identical to the one of the individual standard model, and is therefore not affected by spatial coupling.”
  5. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

    Grokking: Generalization Beyond Overfitting on Small Algorithmic Datasets

    Power, Burda, Edwards, Babuschkin and Misra · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“In some situations we show that neural networks learn through a process of "grokking" a pattern in the data, improving generalization performance from random chance level to perfect generalization, and that this improvement in generalization can happen well…
    2. Unchecked“We also study generalization as a function of dataset size and find that smaller datasets require increasing amounts of optimization for generalization.”
  6. Computer Science › Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs

    No Occurrence Obstructions in Geometric Complexity Theory

    Bürgisser, Ikenmeyer and Panova · Journal of the American Mathematical Society · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“In that paper it was also proposed to separate these orbit closures by exhibiting occurrence obstructions, which are irreducible representations of GL_{n^2}(C), which occur in one coordinate ring of the orbit closure, but not in the other. We prove that this…
  7. Computer Science › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

    Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training

    Hubinger, Denison, Mu et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“We find that such backdoor behavior can be made persistent, so that it is not removed by standard safety training techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and adversarial training (eliciting unsafe behavior and then training to r…
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Do AI models produce better weather forecasts than physics-based models? A quantitative evaluation case study of Storm Ciarán

    Charlton-Perez, Dacre, Driscoll et al. · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The four machine learning models considered (FourCastNet, Pangu-Weather, GraphCast and FourCastNet-v2) produce forecasts that accurately capture the synoptic-scale structure of the cyclone including the position of the cloud head, shape of the warm sector an…
    2. Unchecked“All of the machine learning models underestimate the peak amplitude of winds associated with the storm, only some machine learning models resolve the warm core seclusion and none of the machine learning models capture the sharp bent-back warm frontal gradien…
  9. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Dynamical dark energy beyond Planck? Constraints from multiple CMB probes, DESI BAO, and type-Ia supernovae

    Giarè · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Notably, in this case, the cosmological constant value is recovered within two standard deviations.”
    2. Unchecked“Overall, CMB experiments other than Planck generally weaken the evidence for DDE.”
    3. Unchecked“I argue that the subsets of Planck data that strengthen the shift toward DDE are the temperature and E-mode polarization anisotropy measurements at large angular scales $\ell \lesssim 30$.”
  10. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    On the homogeneity of SnIa absolute magnitude in the Pantheon+ sample

    Perivolaropoulos and Skara · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“The tension between the $M_<$ and $M_>$ best fit values is at a level more than $3σ$ with a best fit $d_{crit}$ very close to $20Mpc$.”
    2. Unchecked“This simulation shows that the maximum significance of the SnIa luminosity transition ($Σ\equiv \frac{|M_>-M_<|}{\sqrt{σ_{M_>}^2+σ_{M_<}^2}}$) in the real data, is larger than the corresponding maximum significance of $94\%$ of the corresponding homogeneous…
  11. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Reconstruction and Clustering in Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    A, Restrepo and Tetali · SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“The bounds become asymptoticlally tight as the number of degrees of freedom in each clause diverges.”
  12. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    NEW EXTREME TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS: TOWARD A SUPER-EARTH IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM

    Sheppard and Trujillo · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Two new objects, 2014 SR349 and 2013 FT28, are extreme detached trans-Neptunian objects, with a>150 AU and perihelia well beyond Neptune (q>40 AU).”
    2. Unchecked“We also discovered the first outer Oort cloud object with a perihelion beyond Neptune, 2014 FE72.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, with the discovery of 2013 FT28, we find that the longitude of perihelion is significantly correlated with the argument of perihelion and orbit pole angle for all extreme objects.”
  13. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Public Debt, Economic Growth and the Real Interest Rate: A Panel VAR Approach to EU and OECD Countries

    Jacobs, Ogawa, Sterken and Tokutsu · Applied Economics · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We find no causal link from public debt to growth, irrespective of the levels of the public debt ratio.”
    2. Unchecked“In high-debt countries, the direct negative impact of growth on public debt is enhanced by an increase in the long-term real interest rate, which in its turn decreases interest-sensitive demand and leads to a further increase in the public debt ratio.”
  14. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    TRACKING NEPTUNE’S MIGRATION HISTORY THROUGH HIGH-PERIHELION RESONANT TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS

    Kaib and Sheppard · The Astronomical Journal · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“If Neptune finishes migrating within ~100 Myrs or less, we predict over 90% of high-perihelion objects near the 3:1 MMR will have semimajor axes within 1 AU of each other, very near the modern resonance's center.”
  15. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Accretion of Uranus and Neptune from inward-migrating planetary embryos blocked by Jupiter and Saturn

    Izidoro, Morbidelli, Raymond, Hersant and Pierens · Astronomy and Astrophysics · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We show that similar-size ice giants do indeed form by collisions between planetary embryos beyond Saturn.”
    2. Unchecked“Similar-sized ice giants are consistently reproduced in simulations starting with 5-10 planetary embryos with initial masses of $\sim$3-6 ${\rm M_\oplus}$.”
  16. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Pruning neural networks without any data by iteratively conserving synaptic flow

    Tanaka, Kunin, Yamins and Ganguli · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Notably, this algorithm makes no reference to the training data and consistently competes with or outperforms existing state-of-the-art pruning algorithms at initialization over a range of models (VGG and ResNet), datasets (CIFAR-10/100 and Tiny ImageNet), a…
    2. Unchecked“We first mathematically formulate and experimentally verify a conservation law that explains why existing gradient-based pruning algorithms at initialization suffer from layer-collapse, the premature pruning of an entire layer rendering a network untrainable…
  17. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    On the cavity method for decimated random constraint satisfaction problems and the analysis of belief propagation guided decimation algorithms

    Ricci-Tersenghi and Semerjian · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“We introduce a version of the cavity method for diluted mean-field spin models that allows the computation of thermodynamic quantities similar to the Franz-Parisi quenched potential in sparse random graph models.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

    What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole?

    Scholtz and Unwin · Physical Review Letters · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The observational constraints on a PBH in the outer Solar System significantly differ from the case of a new ninth planet.”
    2. Unchecked“This scenario could be confirmed through annihilation signals from the dark matter microhalo around the PBH.”
  19. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science

    Schwamb, Jones, Yoachim et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“In general, most of the LSST cadence simulations produce +/-5% or less variations in our chosen key metrics, but a subset of the simulations significantly hinder science returns with much larger losses in the discovery and light curve metrics.”
  20. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Temperature forecasting by deep learning methods

    Gong, Langguth, Ji et al. · Geoscientific model development · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Including the 850 hPa temperature as an additional predictor enhances the forecast quality, and the model also benefits from a larger spatial domain.”

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