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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 501–520 of 782

  1. 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.”
  2. 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.”
  3. 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.”
  4. 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.”
  5. 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.”
  6. 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.”
  7. 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.”
  8. 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.”
  9. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    NISP: Pruning Networks using Neuron Importance Score Propagation

    Yu, Li, Chen et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“In contrast, we argue that it is essential to prune neurons in the entire neuron network jointly based on a unified goal: minimizing the reconstruction error of important responses in the "final response layer" (FRL), which is the second-to-last layer before…
    2. Unchecked“Specifically, we apply feature ranking techniques to measure the importance of each neuron in the FRL, and formulate network pruning as a binary integer optimization problem and derive a closed-form solution to it for pruning neurons in earlier layers.”
  10. Physics and Astronomy › Theoretical and Computational Physics

    Generalization of the cavity method for adiabatic evolution of Gibbs states

    Zdeborová and Krząkała · Physical Review B · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“A mapping between the states following method and the physics on the Nishimori line is also presented.”
  11. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The DESI DR1/DR2 evidence for dynamical dark energy is biased by low-redshift supernovae

    Huang, Cai and Wang · Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper, we reveal that this preference is significantly biased by an external low-redshift supernova (low-$z$ SN) sample, which was combined with the Dark Energy Survey SN program (DES-SN) in their Year-Five data release (DESY5).”
    2. Unchecked“Using the intercept in the SN magnitude-distance relation as a diagnostic for systematics, we find not only large dispersions but also a large discrepancy in the low-$z$ SN sample when compared to the high-$z$ DES-SN sample within the single DESY5 compilatio…
    3. Unchecked“Correcting for this low-$z$ systematics with or without including the cosmic microwave background data can largely reduce the preference for dynamical DE to be less than $2σ$.”
  12. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Model-independent cosmological inference post DESI DR1 BAO measurements

    Mukherjee and Sen · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Reconstruction with the DESI BAO + DES-5YR SN data sets predicts that the $Λ$CDM model lies outside the 3$σ$ confidence levels, whereas with DESI BAO + Union3 data, the $Λ$CDM model is always included within 1$σ$.”
  13. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    Early Solar System instability triggered by dispersal of the gaseous disk

    Liu, Raymond and Jacobson · Nature · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The associated orbital shift caused a dynamical compression of the exterior part of the system, ultimately triggering instability.”
    2. Unchecked“The final orbits of our simulated systems match those of the Solar System for a viable range of astrophysical parameters.”
    3. Unchecked“The giant planet instability therefore took place as the gaseous disk dissipated, constrained by astronomical observations to be a few to ten million years after the birth of the Solar System.”
  14. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Constraint satisfaction problems with isolated solutions are hard

    Zdeborová and Mézard · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“On the other hand we show empirically that the clustered phase of these problems is extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”
  15. Social Sciences › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI

    Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey

    Gallegos, Rossi, Barrow et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Our first taxonomy of metrics for bias evaluation disambiguates the relationship between metrics and evaluation datasets, and organizes metrics by the different levels at which they operate in a model: embeddings, probabilities, and generated text.”
    2. Unchecked“Our third taxonomy of techniques for bias mitigation classifies methods by their intervention during pre-processing, in-training, intra-processing, and post-processing, with granular subcategories that elucidate research trends.”
  16. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Locked Constraint Satisfaction Problems

    Zdeborová and Mézard · Physical Review Letters · 2008

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    1. Unchecked“While the phase diagram can be found easily, these problems, in their clustered phase, are extremely hard from the algorithmic point of view: the best known algorithms all fail to find solutions.”
  17. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Temporal fluctuations in the brain’s modular architecture during movie-watching

    Betzel, Byrge, Esfahlani and Kennedy · NeuroImage · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Applied to movie-watching data, we found that periods of high inter-subject similarity coincided with reductions in network modularity and increased connectivity between cognitive systems.”
    2. Unchecked“In contrast, low inter-subject similarity was associated with increased system segregation and more rest-like architectures.”
    3. Unchecked“Finally, we show that synchronous fluctuations in network architecture over time can be linked to a subset of features in the movie.”
  18. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    How Sedna and family were captured in a close encounter with a solar sibling

    Jílková, Zwart, Pijloo and Hammer · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“We conclude that they might have been captured in a near miss with a 1.8MSun star that impacted the Sun at ~340au at an inclination with respect to the ecliptic of 17--34deg with a relative velocity at infinity of ~4.3km/s.”
    2. Unchecked“We predict that the Sednitos-region is populated by 930 planetesimals and the inner Oort cloud acquired ~440 planetesimals through the same encounter.”
  19. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Large-scale neural dynamics in a shared low-dimensional state space reflect cognitive and attentional dynamics

    Song, Shim and Rosenberg · eLife · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Whole-brain dynamics traversed a common set of latent states that spanned canonical gradients of functional brain organization, with global desynchronization among functional networks modulating state transitions.”
    2. Unchecked“Neural state dynamics reflected attention fluctuations such that different states indicated engaged attention in task and naturalistic contexts, whereas a common state indicated attention lapses in both contexts.”
  20. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Catching the k-NAESAT threshold

    Coja-Oglan and Παναγιώτου · ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“We prove that the threshold for the existence of solutions in random $k$-NAESAT is $2^{k-1}\ln2-(\frac{\ln2}2+\frac14)+\eps_k$, where $|\eps_k| \le 2^{-(1-o_k(1))k}$, thereby verifying the statistical mechanics conjecture for this problem.”

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