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966 claims from 592 papers, showing 41–60 of 592

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

    Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model

    Lin, Akin, Rao et al. · Science · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate direct inference of full atomic-level protein structure from primary sequence using a large language model.”
  2. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

    He, Zhang, Ren and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“An ensemble of these residual nets achieves 3.57% error on the ImageNet test set.”
    2. Unchecked“Solely due to our extremely deep representations, we obtain a 28% relative improvement on the COCO object detection dataset.”
  3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Functional Network Organization of the Human Brain

    Power, Cohen, Nelson et al. · Neuron · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“These graphs contain many subgraphs in good agreement with known functional brain systems.”
    2. Unchecked“The modified voxelwise graph also reveals spatial motifs in the patterning of systems across the cortex.”
  4. Computer Science › Speech and dialogue systems

    ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language Communication Between Man and Machine

    Weizenbaum · Communications of the ACM · 1966

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    1. Unchecked“Input sentences are analyzed on the basis of decomposition rules which are triggered by key words appearing in the input text.”
    2. Unchecked“Responses are generated by reassembly rules associated with selected decomposition rules.”
  5. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

    池谷, Tinn, Cheng et al. · ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“In this article, we challenge this assumption by showing that for domains with abundant unlabeled text, such as biomedicine, pretraining language models from scratch results in substantial gains over continual pretraining of general-domain language models.”
    2. Unchecked“Further, in conducting a thorough evaluation of modeling choices, both for pretraining and task-specific fine-tuning, we discover that some common practices are unnecessary with BERT models, such as using complex tagging schemes in named entity recognition.”
  6. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Consistent resting-state networks across healthy subjects

    Damoiseaux, Rombouts, Barkhof et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006

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    1. Unchecked“The analysis found 10 patterns with potential functional relevance, consisting of regions known to be involved in motor function, visual processing, executive functioning, auditory processing, memory, and the so-called default-mode network, each with BOLD si…
    2. Unchecked“In general, areas with a high mean percentage BOLD signal are consistent and show the least variation around the mean.”
  7. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

    Discernment and Social Learning as a Companion Training Layer

    Ouyang, Wu, Jiang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“In human evaluations on our prompt distribution, outputs from the 1.3B parameter InstructGPT model are preferred to outputs from the 175B GPT-3, despite having 100x fewer parameters.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, InstructGPT models show improvements in truthfulness and reductions in toxic output generation while having minimal performance regressions on public NLP datasets.”
  8. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

    A million spiking-neuron integrated circuit with a scalable communication network and interface

    Merolla, Arthur, Alvarez-Icaza et al. · Science · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“With 400-pixel-by-240-pixel video input at 30 frames per second, the chip consumes 63 milliwatts.”
  9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer

    Evans, O’Neill, Pritzel et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“On a benchmark dataset of 17 heterodimer proteins without templates (introduced in [2]) we achieve at least medium accuracy (DockQ [3] ≥ 0.49) on 13 targets and high accuracy (DockQ ≥ 0.8) on 7 targets, compared to 9 targets of at least medium accuracy and 4…
    2. Unchecked“For heteromeric interfaces we successfully predict the interface (DockQ ≥ 0.23) in 70% of cases, and produce high accuracy predictions (DockQ ≥ 0.8) in 26% of cases, an improvement of +27 and +14 percentage points over the flexible linker modification of Alp…
    3. Unchecked“For homomeric inter-faces we successfully predict the interface in 72% of cases, and produce high accuracy predictions in 36% of cases, an improvement of +8 and +7 percentage points respectively.”
  10. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Methods to detect, characterize, and remove motion artifact in resting state fMRI

    Power, Mitra, Laumann, Snyder, Schlaggar and Petersen · NeuroImage · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“These signal changes, both during and after motion, increase observed RSFC correlations in a distance-dependent manner.”
  11. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways

    Chowdhery, Narang, Devlin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“A significant number of BIG-bench tasks showed discontinuous improvements from model scale, meaning that performance steeply increased as we scaled to our largest model.”
    2. Unchecked“We demonstrate continued benefits of scaling by achieving state-of-the-art few-shot learning results on hundreds of language understanding and generation benchmarks.”
    3. Unchecked“On a number of these tasks, PaLM 540B achieves breakthrough performance, outperforming the finetuned state-of-the-art on a suite of multi-step reasoning tasks, and outperforming average human performance on the recently released BIG-bench benchmark.”
  12. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    Performance of ChatGPT on USMLE: Potential for AI-assisted medical education using large language models

    Kung, Cheatham, ChatGPT et al. · PLOS Digital Health · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“ChatGPT performed at or near the passing threshold for all three exams without any specialized training or reinforcement.”
  13. Engineering › Advanced Memory and Neural Computing

    Loihi: A Neuromorphic Manycore Processor with On-Chip Learning

    Davies, Srinivasa, Lin et al. · IEEE Micro · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Running a spiking convolutional form of the Locally Competitive Algorithm, Loihi can solve LASSO optimization problems with over three orders of magnitude superior energy-delay-product compared to conventional solvers running on a CPU iso-process/voltage/are…
  14. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models

    Touvron, Lavril, Izacard et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We train our models on trillions of tokens, and show that it is possible to train state-of-the-art models using publicly available datasets exclusively, without resorting to proprietary and inaccessible datasets.”
    2. Unchecked“In particular, LLaMA-13B outperforms GPT-3 (175B) on most benchmarks, and LLaMA-65B is competitive with the best models, Chinchilla-70B and PaLM-540B.”
  15. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Local-Global Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex from Intrinsic Functional Connectivity MRI

    Schaefer, Kong, Gordon et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Using task-fMRI and rs-fMRI across diverse acquisition protocols, we found gwMRF parcellations to be more homogeneous than 4 previously published parcellations.”
    2. Unchecked“Furthermore, gwMRF parcellations agreed with the boundaries of certain cortical areas defined using histology and visuotopic fMRI.”
    3. Unchecked“Some parcels captured subareal (somatotopic and visuotopic) features that likely reflect distinct computational units within known cortical areas.”
  16. Physics and Astronomy › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

    The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Tremonti, Heckman, Kauffmann et al. · The Astrophysical Journal · 2004

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    1. Unchecked“We find a tight (±0.1 dex) correlation between stellar mass and metallicity spanning over 3 orders of magnitude in stellar mass and a factor of 10 in metallicity.”
    2. Unchecked“The relation is relatively steep from 10 8.5 to 10 10.5 M ☉ h , in good accord with known trends between luminosity and metallicity, but flattens above 10 10.5 M ☉ .”
    3. Unchecked“We show that metal loss is strongly anticorrelated with baryonic mass, with low-mass dwarf galaxies being 5 times more metal depleted than L * galaxies at z ~ 0.1.”
  17. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Deep Compression: Compressing Deep Neural Networks with Pruning, Trained Quantization and Huffman Coding

    Han, Mao and Dally · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2015

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    1. Unchecked“Our method reduced the size of VGG-16 by 49x from 552MB to 11.3MB, again with no loss of accuracy.”
    2. Unchecked“Benchmarked on CPU, GPU and mobile GPU, compressed network has 3x to 4x layerwise speedup and 3x to 7x better energy efficiency.”
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Global Financial Crisis and Policies

    This Time Is Different

    Reinhart and Rogoff · Princeton University Press eBooks · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“Using clear, sharp analysis and comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency, duration, and ferocity.”
    2. Unchecked“Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established ma…
  19. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Investigations into resting-state connectivity using independent component analysis

    Beckmann, DeLuca, Devlin and Smith · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2005

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    1. Unchecked“We apply PICA to fMRI data acquired at rest, in order to characterize the spatio-temporal structure of such data, and demonstrate that this is an effective and robust tool for the identification of low-frequency resting-state patterns from data acquired at v…
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

    Senior, Evans, Jumper et al. · Nature · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“We find that the resulting potential can be optimized by a simple gradient descent algorithm to generate structures without complex sampling procedures.”
    2. Unchecked“In the recent Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction 5 (CASP13)-a blind assessment of the state of the field-AlphaFold created high-accuracy structures (with template modelling (TM) scores 6 of 0.7 or higher) for 24 out of 43 free modelling doma…

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