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1,067 claims from 671 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 1,028 have no check with a result yet.

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1,028 claims from 634 papers, showing 121–140 of 634

  1. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

    Benchmarking of participant-level confound regression strategies for the control of motion artifact in studies of functional connectivity

    Ćirić, Wolf, Power et al. · NeuroImage · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“First, methods that include global signal regression minimize the relationship between connectivity and motion, but result in distance-dependent artifact.”
    2. Unchecked“In contrast, censoring methods mitigate both motion artifact and distance-dependence, but use additional degrees of freedom.”
    3. Unchecked“Importantly, less effective de-noising methods are also unable to identify modular network structure in the connectome.”
  2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models

    Chung, Le Hou, Longpre et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“For instance, Flan-PaLM 540B instruction-finetuned on 1.8K tasks outperforms PALM 540B by a large margin (+9.4% on average).”
    2. Unchecked“Flan-PaLM 540B achieves state-of-the-art performance on several benchmarks, such as 75.2% on five-shot MMLU.”
    3. Unchecked“We find that instruction finetuning with the above aspects dramatically improves performance on a variety of model classes (PaLM, T5, U-PaLM), prompting setups (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT), and evaluation benchmarks (MMLU, BBH, TyDiQA, MGSM, open-ended generat…
  3. Materials Science › Enzyme Structure and Function

    Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data

    Burley, Berman, Bhikadiya et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“The PDB Core Archive houses 3D atomic coordinates of more than 144 000 structural models of proteins, DNA/RNA, and their complexes with metals and small molecules and related experimental data and metadata.”
  4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

    HH-suite3 for fast remote homology detection and deep protein annotation

    Steinegger, Meier, Mirdita, Vöhringer, Haunsberger and Söding · BMC Bioinformatics · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“These accelerated the search methods HHsearch by a factor 4 and HHblits by a factor 2 over the previous version 2.0.16.”
  5. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Going deeper with Image Transformers

    Touvron, Cord, Sablayrolles, Synnaeve and Jeǵou · IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Moreover, our best model establishes the new state of the art on Imagenet with Reassessed labels and Imagenet-V2 / match frequency, in the setting with no additional training data.”
  6. Computer Science

    arXiv 2202.02450

    arXiv 2202.02450: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“About 1.8 million materials were identified from a screening of 31 million hypothetical crystal structures to be potentially stable against existing Materials Project crystals based on M3GNet energies.”
  7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Unified rational protein engineering with sequence-based deep representation learning

    Alley, Khimulya, Biswas, AlQuraishi and Church · Nature Methods · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We show that the simplest models built on top of this unified representation (UniRep) are broadly applicable and generalize to unseen regions of sequence space.”
    2. Unchecked“Our data-driven approach predicts the stability of natural and de novo designed proteins, and the quantitative function of molecularly diverse mutants, competitively with the state-of-the-art methods.”
    3. Unchecked“UniRep further enables two orders of magnitude efficiency improvement in a protein engineering task.”
  8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    lDDT: a local superposition-free score for comparing protein structures and models using distance difference tests

    Mariani, Biasini, Barbato and Schwede · Bioinformatics · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that lDDT is well suited to assess local model quality, even in the presence of domain movements, while maintaining good correlation with global measures.”
  9. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining

    Ward, Dunn, Faghaninia et al. · Computational Materials Science · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Finally, matminer provides a visualization module for producing interactive, shareable plots.”
  10. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Analytic and Algorithmic Solution of Random Satisfiability Problems

    Mézard, Parisi and Zecchina · Science · 2002

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    1. Unchecked“We show the existence of an intermediate phase below α c , where the proliferation of metastable states is responsible for the onset of complexity in search algorithms.”
  11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Improved prediction of protein-protein interactions using AlphaFold2

    Bryant, Pozzati and Elofsson · Nature Communications · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We find that the AlphaFold2 protocol together with optimised multiple sequence alignments, generate models with acceptable quality (DockQ ≥ 0.23) for 63% of the dimers.”
    2. Unchecked“From the predicted interfaces we create a simple function to predict the DockQ score which distinguishes acceptable from incorrect models as well as interacting from non-interacting proteins with state-of-art accuracy.”
  12. Neuroscience › EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces

    Magnetoencephalography for brain electrophysiology and imaging

    Baillet · Nature Neuroscience · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Overall, MEG contributes uniquely to our deeper comprehension of both regional and large-scale brain dynamics: from the functions of neural oscillations and the nature of event-related brain activation, to the mechanisms of functional connectivity between re…
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Improving the Physical Realism and Structural Accuracy of Protein Models by a Two-Step Atomic-Level Energy Minimization

    Xu and Zhang · Biophysical Journal · 2011

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    1. Unchecked“Compared with other state-of-art programs, ModRefiner shows improvements in both global and local structures, which have more accurate side-chain positions, better hydrogen-bonding networks, and fewer atomic overlaps.”
  14. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

    Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization

    Zhang, Bengio, Hardt, Recht and Vinyals · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, our experiments establish that state-of-the-art convolutional networks for image classification trained with stochastic gradient methods easily fit a random labeling of the training data.”
    2. Unchecked“This phenomenon is qualitatively unaffected by explicit regularization, and occurs even if we replace the true images by completely unstructured random noise.”
  15. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Where the really hard problems are

    Cheeseman, Kanefsky and Taylor · 1991

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    1. Unchecked“It is the high density of well-separated almost solutions (local minima) at this boundary that cause search algorithms to "thrash".”
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Precipitation Measurement and Analysis

    Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar

    Ravuri, Lenc, Willson et al. · Nature · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“When verified quantitatively, these nowcasts are skillful without resorting to blurring.”
  17. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models

    Jason, Tay, Bommasani et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“Thus, emergent abilities cannot be predicted simply by extrapolating the performance of smaller models.”
  18. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › European Monetary and Fiscal Policies

    The European Sovereign Debt Crisis

    Lane · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“The origin and propagation of the European sovereign debt crisis can be attributed to the flawed original design of the euro.”
    2. Unchecked“In particular, there was an incomplete understanding of the fragility of a monetary union under crisis conditions, especially in the absence of banking union and other European-level buffer mechanisms.”
    3. Unchecked“Moreover, the inherent messiness involved in proposing and implementing incremental multicountry crisis management responses on the fly has been an important destabilizing factor throughout the crisis.”
  19. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Rethinking the Value of Network Pruning

    Liu, Sun, Zhou, Huang and Darrell · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“For all state-of-the-art structured pruning algorithms we examined, fine-tuning a pruned model only gives comparable or worse performance than training that model with randomly initialized weights.”
  20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Accurate De Novo Prediction of Protein Contact Map by Ultra-Deep Learning Model

    Wang, Sun, Li, Zhang and Xu · PLoS Computational Biology · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“Tested on three datasets of 579 proteins, the average top L long-range prediction accuracy obtained our method, the representative EC method CCMpred and the CASP11 winner MetaPSICOV is 0.47, 0.21 and 0.30, respectively; the average top L/10 long-range accura…
    2. Unchecked“Ab initio folding using our predicted contacts as restraints can yield correct folds (i.e., TMscore>0.6) for 203 test proteins, while that using MetaPSICOV- and CCMpred-predicted contacts can do so for only 79 and 62 proteins, respectively.”

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