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1,321 claims from 825 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,275 have no check with a result yet.

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1,275 claims from 782 papers, showing 481–500 of 782

1. 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 ${\rm M_\oplus}$.”

2. 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…

3. 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.”

4. 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.”

5. 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.”

6. 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.”

7. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   Pruning Networks With Cross-Layer Ranking & k-Reciprocal Nearest Filters

   Lin, Cao, Zhang, Shao, Lin and Ji · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“On ImageNet, it removes 70.2% FLOPs and 64.8% parameters from ResNet-50 with only 1.7% top-5 accuracy drops.”
   2. Unchecked“Both our pruned network structure and the filter selection are non-learning processes, which thus significantly reduce the pruning complexity, and differentiate our method from existing works.”

8. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

   Origin and Evolution of Long-period Comets

   Vokrouhlický, Nesvorný and Dones · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Our results match the observed semimajor axis distribution of LPCs when Whipple's power-law fading scheme with an exponent $κ= 0.6^{+0.1}_{-0.2}$ is adopted.”
   2. Unchecked“Beyond $q = 15$~au, however, the population increases steeply and the isotropy of LPC orbital planes breaks.”

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

   Biophysics-based protein language models for protein engineering

   Gelman, Johnson, Freschlin et al. · Nature Methods · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate METL’s ability to design functional green fluorescent protein variants when trained on only 64 examples, showcasing the potential of biophysics-based protein language models for protein engineering.”

10. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Proving the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Pruning is All You Need

    Malach, Yehudai, Shalev‐Shwartz and Shamir · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We prove an even stronger hypothesis (as was also conjectured in Ramanujan et al., 2019), showing that for every bounded distribution and every target network with bounded weights, a sufficiently over-parameterized neural network with random weights contains…

11. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries

    Savelli, Luck and Knierim · eLife · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Although the local, geometric frame of reference often exerted the strongest control over the grids, the remote cues demonstrated a consistent, sometimes dominant, countervailing influence.”

12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Soft Filter Pruning for Accelerating Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    He, Kang, Dong, Fu and Yang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Empirically, SFP from scratch outperforms the previous filter pruning methods.”
    2. Unchecked“Notably, on ILSCRC-2012, SFP reduces more than 42% FLOPs on ResNet-101 with even 0.2% top-5 accuracy improvement, which has advanced the state-of-the-art.”

13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

    Evaluating Protein Transfer Learning with TAPE

    Rao, Bhattacharya, Thomas et al. · PubMed · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We find that self-supervised pretraining is helpful for almost all models on all tasks, more than doubling performance in some cases.”

14. Physics and Astronomy › Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

    Far-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Observations of SN 2023ixf: A High-energy Explosion Engulfed in Complex Circumstellar Material

    Teja, Singh, Basu et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Based on early light curve models of Type II SNe, we infer that the nearby dense CSM confined to (7+-3)e14cm (~45 AU) is a result of enhanced mass loss (10^{-3.0+-0.5} Msol/yr) two decades before the explosion.”
    2. Unchecked“We observe high-ionization absorption lines (FeII, MgII) in the ultraviolet spectra from very early on.”

15. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    A Better Algorithm for Random k -SAT

    Coja‐Oghlan · SIAM Journal on Computing · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“We present a polynomial time algorithm that finds a satisfying assignment of F with high probability for constraint densities m/n<(1-eps_k)2^k\ln(k)/k, where eps_k->0.”

16. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Origin of the computational hardness for learning with binary synapses

    Huang and Kabashima · Physical Review E · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The point-like clusters far apart from each other in the weight space explain the previously observed glassy behavior of stochastic local search heuristics.”

17. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Applications, classifications, and challenges: a comprehensive evaluation of recently developed metaheuristics for search and analysis

    Shaikh, Raj, Zheng et al. · Artificial Intelligence Review · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The rise of such methods has led to redundancy and fragmentation in the field, as many reframe familiar optimization principles using superficial metaphors rather than advancing core algorithmic mechanisms.”

18. Engineering › Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques

    Information-Theoretic and Algorithmic Thresholds for Group Testing

    Coja-Oghlan, Gebhard, Hahn-Klimroth and Loick · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We pinpoint the sharp threshold for the number of tests required in this randomised design so that it is information-theoretically possible to infer the infection status of every individual.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Threshold values, stability analysis, and high- q asymptotics for the coloring problem on random graphs

    Krząkała, Pagnani and Weigt · Physical Review E · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“We derive a general criterion for the validity of this ansatz and, applying it to the ground state, we provide evidence that the 1RSB solution gives exact threshold values c_q for the q-COL/UNCOL phase transition.”

20. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    SwinVRNN: A Data‐Driven Ensemble Forecasting Model via Learned Distribution Perturbation

    Hu, Chen, Wang and Li · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Comparisons on WeatherBench dataset show the learned distribution perturbation method using our SwinVRNN model achieves superior forecast accuracy and reasonable ensemble spread due to joint optimization of the two targets.”
    2. Unchecked“More notably, SwinVRNN surpasses operational IFS on surface variables of 2-m temperature and 6-hourly total precipitation at all lead times up to five days.”