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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 141–160 of 634

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

   Reduced default mode network functional connectivity in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder

   Yan, Chen, Le Li et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2019

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   1. Unchecked“Instead, we found decreased DMN FC when we compared 848 patients with MDD to 794 NCs from 17 sites after data exclusion.”
   2. Unchecked“We found FC reduction only in recurrent MDD, not in first-episode drug-naïve MDD.”
   3. Unchecked“DMN FC was also positively related to symptom severity but only in recurrent MDD.”

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

   Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model

   Hayes, Rao, Akin et al. · Science · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating 500 million years of evolution.”

5. Materials Science › Enzyme Structure and Function

   RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB.org): delivery of experimentally-determined PDB structures alongside one million computed structure models of proteins from artificial intelligence/machine learning

   Burley, Bhikadiya, Bi et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Every PDB structure and CSM is integrated weekly with related functional annotations from external biodata resources, providing up-to-date information for the entire corpus of 3D biostructure data freely available from RCSB.org with no usage limitations.”
   2. Unchecked“Within RCSB.org, PDB structures and the CSMs are clearly identified as to their provenance and reliability.”
   3. Unchecked“Both are fully searchable, and can be analyzed and visualized using the full complement of RCSB.org web portal capabilities.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network

   Doeller, Barry and Burgess · Nature · 2010

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   1. Unchecked“We then looked for this signal as participants explored a virtual reality environment, mimicking the rats' foraging task: fMRI activation and adaptation showing a speed-modulated six-fold rotational symmetry in running direction.”
   2. Unchecked“The signal was found in a network of entorhinal/subicular, posterior and medial parietal, lateral temporal and medial prefrontal areas.”
   3. Unchecked“The effect was strongest in right entorhinal cortex, and the coherence of the directional signal across entorhinal cortex correlated with spatial memory performance.”

7. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

   ShuffleNet: An Extremely Efficient Convolutional Neural Network for Mobile Devices

   Zhang, Zhou, Lin and Sun · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“The new architecture utilizes two new operations, pointwise group convolution and channel shuffle, to greatly reduce computation cost while maintaining accuracy.”
   2. Unchecked“Experiments on ImageNet classification and MS COCO object detection demonstrate the superior performance of ShuffleNet over other structures, e.g. lower top-1 error (absolute 7.8%) than recent MobileNet on ImageNet classification task, under the computation…

8. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

   Aronov, Nevers and Tank · Nature · 2017

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   1. Unchecked“We found neural representation of the entire behavioural task, including activity that formed discrete firing fields at particular sound frequencies.”

9. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

   Accelerated search for materials with targeted properties by adaptive design

   Xue, Balachandran, Hogden, Theiler, Xue and Lookman · Nature Communications · 2016

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   1. Unchecked“Of these, 14 had smaller Δ T than any of the 22 in the original data set.”

10. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Hippocampal remapping and grid realignment in entorhinal cortex

    Fyhn, Hafting, Treves, Moser and Moser · Nature · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Grid fields of co-localized medial entorhinal cortex cells move and rotate in concert during this realignment.”

11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    arXiv 0811.1826

    arXiv 0811.1826: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“We show that the rate at which errors accumulate in the integration of velocity depends on the network's organization and size, and on the intrinsic noise within the network.”
    2. Unchecked“We show, in contrast to previous models, that continuous attractor models can generate regular triangular grid responses, based on inputs that encode only the rat's velocity and heading.”

12. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

    Lever, Burton, Jeewajee, O'Keefe and Burgess · Journal of Neuroscience · 2009

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    1. Unchecked“Here, we report the existence of cells fulfilling this description in recordings from the subiculum of freely moving rats.”

13. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1601.00329

    arXiv 1601.00329: OpenAlex has no record of it

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    1. Unchecked“Highlights from DES early data include the discovery of 34 Trans Neptunian Objects, 17 dwarf satellites of the Milky Way, one published z > 6 quasar (and more confirmed) and two published superluminous supernovae (and more confirmed).”

14. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artificial agents

    Banino, Barry, Uría et al. · Nature · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Furthermore, grid-like representations enabled agents to conduct shortcut behaviours reminiscent of those performed by mammals.”
    2. Unchecked“Our findings show that emergent grid-like representations furnish agents with a Euclidean spatial metric and associated vector operations, providing a foundation for proficient navigation.”

15. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Combinatorial screening for new materials in unconstrained composition space with machine learning

    Meredig, Agrawal, Kirklin et al. · Physical Review B · 2014

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    1. Unchecked“The resulting model can predict the thermodynamic stability of arbitrary compositions without any other input and with six orders of magnitude less computer time than DFT.”
    2. Unchecked“We use this model to scan roughly 1.6 million candidate compositions for novel ternary compounds (${A}_{x}{B}_{y}{C}_{z}$), and predict 4500 new stable materials.”

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

    DeepLoc 2.0: multi-label subcellular localization prediction using protein language models

    Thumuluri, Armenteros, Johansen, Nielsen and Winther · Nucleic Acids Research · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We achieve state-of-the-art performance in DeepLoc 2.0 by using a pre-trained protein language model.”
    2. Unchecked“We find that the attention output correlates well with the position of sorting signals.”

17. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Structured information extraction from scientific text with large language models

    Dagdelen, Dunn, Lee et al. · Nature Communications · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“This approach represents a simple, accessible, and highly flexible route to obtaining large databases of structured specialized scientific knowledge extracted from research papers.”

18. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    An oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing

    Burgess, Barry and O'Keefe · Hippocampus · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, dendritic subunits of layer II medial entorhinal stellate cells provide multiple linear interference patterns along different directions, with their product determining the firing of the cell.”

19. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

    Langston, Ainge, Couey et al. · Science · 2010

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    1. Unchecked“A neural representation of external space at this early time points to strong innate components for perception of space.”

20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

    Automated model building and protein identification in cryo-EM maps

    Jamali, Käll, Zhang, Brown, Kimanius and Scheres · Nature · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“By combining information from the cryo-EM map with information from protein sequence and structure in a single graph neural network, ModelAngelo builds atomic models for proteins that are of similar quality to those generated by human experts.”
    2. Unchecked“For nucleotides, ModelAngelo builds backbones with similar accuracy to those built by humans.”
    3. Unchecked“By using its predicted amino acid probabilities for each residue in hidden Markov model sequence searches, ModelAngelo outperforms human experts in the identification of proteins with unknown sequences.”