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1,359 claims from 845 papers are on the record. 46 have been checked so far; the other 1,313 have no check with a result yet.

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1,313 claims from 802 papers, showing 581–600 of 802

  1. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Spatial coding dysfunction and network instability in the aging medial entorhinal cortex

    Herber, Pratt, Shea, Villeda and Giocomo · Nature Communications · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“In aged grid cells, we observed impaired stabilization of context-specific spatial firing, correlated with spatial memory deficits.”
    2. Unchecked“Additionally, aged grid networks shifted firing patterns often, but with poor alignment to context changes.”
    3. Unchecked“In these same mice, we identified 458 genes differentially expressed with age in MEC, 61 of which had expression correlated with spatial coding quality.”
  2. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    A data-to-forecast machine learning system for global weather

    Sun, Zhong, Xu et al. · Nature Communications · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“FuXi Weather generates reliable 10-day forecasts at 0.25° resolution using fewer observations than conventional NWP systems.”
    2. Unchecked“FuXi Weather outperforms the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts high-resolution forecasts beyond day one in observation-sparse regions such as central Africa, highlighting its potential to improve forecasts where observational infrastructure…
  3. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

    Collaboration, C., Acevedo et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“Supernova data alone now require acceleration ($q_0<0$ in $Λ$CDM) with over $5σ$ confidence.”
    2. Unchecked“Including Planck CMB data, SDSS BAO data, and DES $3\times2$-point data gives $(Ω_{\rm M},w)=(0.321\pm0.007,-0.941\pm0.026)$.”
  4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    A map of spatial navigation for neuroscience

    Parra-Barrero, Vijayabaskaran, Seabrook, Wiskott and Cheng · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“This has led the latter to under-appreciate the relevance and complexity of spatial behavior, and to focus too narrowly on characterizing neural representations of space-disconnected from the computations these representations are meant to enable.”
  5. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Proof of the satisfiability conjecture for large $k$

    Ding, Sly and Sun · Annals of Mathematics · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We establish the satisfiability threshold for random $k$-SAT for all $k\ge k_0$, with $k_0$ an absolute constant.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that the threshold $\alpha_{\rm sat}(k)$ is given explicitly by the one-step replica symmetry breaking prediction from statistical physics.”
  6. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Rethinking Weight Decay for Efficient Neural Network Pruning

    Tessier, Gripon, Léonardon, Arzel, Hannagan and Bertrand · Journal of Imaging · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We show that SWD compares favorably to state-of-the-art approaches, in terms of performance-to-parameters ratio, on the CIFAR-10, Cora, and ImageNet ILSVRC2012 datasets.”
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Challenges in bridging the gap between protein structure prediction and functional interpretation

    Váradi, Tsenkov and Velankar · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Thus, challenges persist, particularly in capturing protein dynamics, predicting multi‐chain structures, interpreting protein function, and assessing model quality.”
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Validating Deep Learning Weather Forecast Models on Recent High-Impact Extreme Events

    Pasche, Wider, Zhang, Zscheischler and Engelke · Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“We find that ML weather prediction models locally achieve similar accuracy to HRES on the record-shattering Pacific Northwest heatwave but underperform when aggregated over space and time.”
  9. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Do data-driven models beat numerical models in forecasting weather extremes? A comparison of IFS HRES, Pangu-Weather, and GraphCast

    Olivetti and Messori · Geoscientific model development · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“However, the performance of data-driven models varies by region, type of extreme event, and forecast lead time.”
    2. Unchecked“Notably, data-driven models appear to perform best for temperature extremes in regions closer to the tropics and at shorter lead times.”
  10. Environmental Science › Climate variability and models

    ACE2: accurately learning subseasonal to decadal atmospheric variability and forced responses

    Watt‐Meyer, Henn, McGibbon et al. · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“It exactly conserves global dry air mass and moisture and can be stepped forward stably for arbitrarily many steps with a throughput of about 1500 simulated years per wall clock day.”
    2. Unchecked“ACE2 generates emergent phenomena such as tropical cyclones, the Madden Julian Oscillation, and sudden stratospheric warmings.”
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe

    Barrio‐Hernandez, Yeo, Jänes et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Using this method we have clustered all structures in AFDB, identifying 2.27M non-singleton structural clusters, of which 31% lack annotations representing likely novel structures.”
    2. Unchecked“Clusters without annotation tend to have few representatives covering only 4% of all proteins in the AFDB.”
    3. Unchecked“Evolutionary analysis suggests that most clusters are ancient in origin but 4% seem species specific, representing lower quality predictions or examples of de-novo gene birth.”
  12. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Efficient Layer Compression Without Pruning

    Wu, Zhu, Fang, Deng and Zhong · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Experimental results conducted on two datasets demonstrate that our method retains superior performance with a FLOPs reduction of 74.1% for VGG-16 and 54.6% for ResNet-56, respectively.”
    2. Unchecked“In addition, our ELC improves the inference speed by 2× on Jetson AGX Xavier edge device.”
  13. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    The Lottery Tickets Hypothesis for Supervised and Self-supervised Pre-training in Computer Vision Models

    Chen, Frankle, Chang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“Further analyses reveal that subnetworks found from different pre-training tend to yield diverse mask structures and perturbation sensitivities.”
  14. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Data-Driven Sparse Structure Selection for Deep Neural Networks

    Huang and Wang · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“By forcing some of the factors to zero, we can safely remove the corresponding structures, thus prune the unimportant parts of a CNN.”
    2. Unchecked“Comparing with other structure selection methods that may need thousands of trials or iterative fine-tuning, our method is trained fully end-to-end in one training pass without bells and whistles.”
  15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    The Influence of Public Debt on Economic Growth: a Review of Literature

    Yamin, Al-Kasasbeh, Alzghoul and Alsheikh · International Journal of Professional Business Review · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Overall, it indicates that theoretical models and empirical studies produce indecisive outcomes based on a variety of criteria such as the level of development of the sampled nations, the methodology utilized, data coverage, and the researchers' choice of co…
  16. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

    A Survey of Large Language Models for Healthcare: from Data, Technology, and Applications to Accountability and Ethics

    He, Mao, Lin et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“This shift encompasses a move from discriminative AI approaches to generative AI approaches, as well as a shift from model-centered methodologies to data-centered methodologies.”
    2. Unchecked“Also, we determine that the biggest obstacle of using LLMs in Healthcare are fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics.”
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    A Practical Probabilistic Benchmark for AI Weather Models

    Brenowitz, Cohen, Pathak et al. · Geophysical Research Letters · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The results reveal that two leading AI weather models, i.e. GraphCast and Pangu, are tied on the probabilistic CRPS metric even though the former outperforms the latter in deterministic scoring.”
  18. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Crosslingual Generalization through Multitask Finetuning

    Muennighoff, Thomas, Sutawika et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find finetuning large multilingual language models on English tasks with English prompts allows for task generalization to non-English languages that appear only in the pretraining corpus.”
    2. Unchecked“Finetuning on multilingual tasks with English prompts further improves performance on English and non-English tasks leading to various state-of-the-art zero-shot results.”
    3. Unchecked“Surprisingly, we find models are capable of zero-shot generalization to tasks in languages they have never intentionally seen.”
  19. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Optimal parameterizations for observational constraints on thawing dark energy

    Shlivko, Steinhardt and Steinhardt · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“We find that a targeted parameterization derived from a Padé expansion of $w$ is the most reliable of these, producing accurate reconstructions of $w(z)$, the expansion history $H(z)$, and cosmological parameters such as $H_0$ and $Ω_m$ for a broad range of…
  20. Physics and Astronomy › Astro and Planetary Science

    OSSOS. XV. Probing the Distant Solar System with Observed Scattering TNOs

    Kaib, Pike, Lawler et al. · The Astronomical Journal · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“Although the number of highly inclined scatterers from the Oort Cloud is ~3 times less than observed, Oort cloud enrichment from the Sun's galactic migration or birth cluster could resolve this.”
    2. Unchecked“Meanwhile, a distant, low-eccentricity 5 Earth-mass planet replicates the observed fraction of highly inclined scatterers, but the overall inclination distribution is more excited than observed.”

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