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1,096 claims from 689 papers are on the record. 39 have been checked so far; the other 1,057 have no check with a result yet.

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1,057 claims from 652 papers, showing 161–180 of 652

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

   Wang, Jason, Schuurmans et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that self-consistency boosts the performance of chain-of-thought prompting with a striking margin on a range of popular arithmetic and commonsense reasoning benchmarks, including GSM8K (+17.9%), SVAMP (+11.0%), AQuA (…

4. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   The Tolman-Eichenbaum Machine: Unifying Space and Relational Memory through Generalization in the Hippocampal Formation

   Whittington, Müller, Mark et al. · Cell · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“After learning, TEM entorhinal cells display diverse properties resembling apparently bespoke spatial responses, such as grid, band, border, and object-vector cells.”

5. Computer Science › Stochastic Gradient Optimization Techniques

   A Convergence Theory for Deep Learning via Over-Parameterization

   Allen-Zhu, Li and Song · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2018

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   1. Unchecked“This implies an equivalence between over-parameterized neural networks and neural tangent kernel (NTK) in the finite (and polynomial) width setting.”

6. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

   A Spin Glass Model of Path Integration in Rat Medial Entorhinal Cortex

   Fuhs and Touretzky · Journal of Neuroscience · 2006

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   1. Unchecked“The spatial firing fields of the simulated cells closely resemble those of dMEC cells.”
   2. Unchecked“Introducing an asymmetry in the model allows the activity bumps to be shifted in any direction, at a rate proportional to velocity, to achieve path integration.”

7. Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation

   A neural network that finds a naturalistic solution for the production of muscle activity

   Sussillo, Churchland, Kaufman and Shenoy · Nature Neuroscience · 2015

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   1. Unchecked“Analysis of trained models revealed that the natural dynamical solution was a low-dimensional oscillator that generated the necessary multiphasic commands.”
   2. Unchecked“Notably, data and simulations agreed only when models were optimized to find simple solutions.”

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

   A structural biology community assessment of AlphaFold2 applications

   Akdel, Pires, Porta‐Pardo et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“For 11 proteomes, an average of 25% additional residues can be confidently modeled when compared with homology modeling, identifying structural features rarely seen in the Protein Data Bank.”

9. Social Sciences › Misinformation and Its Impacts

   ChatGPT and the rise of large language models: the new AI-driven infodemic threat in public health

   De Angelis, Baglivo, Arzilli et al. · Frontiers in Public Health · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Infodemic is a trending topic in public health and the ability of LLMs to rapidly produce vast amounts of text could leverage misinformation spread at an unprecedented scale, this could create an “AI-driven infodemic,” a novel public health threat.”

10. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    Pruning Filters for Efficient ConvNets

    Li, Kadav, Đurđanović, Samet and Graf · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016

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    1. Unchecked“In contrast to pruning weights, this approach does not result in sparse connectivity patterns.”
    2. Unchecked“We show that even simple filter pruning techniques can reduce inference costs for VGG-16 by up to 34% and ResNet-110 by up to 38% on CIFAR10 while regaining close to the original accuracy by retraining the networks.”

11. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

    Hoffmann, Borgeaud, Mensch et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“By training over 400 language models ranging from 70 million to over 16 billion parameters on 5 to 500 billion tokens, we find that for compute-optimal training, the model size and the number of training tokens should be scaled equally: for every doubling of…
    2. Unchecked“Chinchilla uniformly and significantly outperforms Gopher (280B), GPT-3 (175B), Jurassic-1 (178B), and Megatron-Turing NLG (530B) on a large range of downstream evaluation tasks.”
    3. Unchecked“As a highlight, Chinchilla reaches a state-of-the-art average accuracy of 67.5% on the MMLU benchmark, greater than a 7% improvement over Gopher.”

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

    Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function

    Meier, Rao, Verkuil, Liu, Sercu and Rives · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“We show that using only zero-shot inference, without any supervision from experimental data or additional training, protein language models capture the functional effects of sequence variation, performing at state-of-the-art.”

13. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

    Toward Data‐Driven Weather and Climate Forecasting: Approximating a Simple General Circulation Model With Deep Learning

    Scher · Geophysical Research Letters · 2018

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    1. Unchecked“Additionally, after being initialized with an arbitrary model state, the network can through repeatedly feeding back its predictions into its inputs create a climate run, which has similar climate statistics to the climate of the general circulation model.”
    2. Unchecked“This network climate run shows no long‐term drift, even though no conservation properties were explicitly designed into the network.”
    3. Unchecked“It is shown that it is possible to emulate the dynamics of a simple general circulation model with a deep neural network.”

14. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2311.07222

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    1. Unchecked“For both weather and climate, our approach offers orders of magnitude computational savings over conventional GCMs.”

15. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

    Public Debt Overhangs: Advanced-Economy Episodes Since 1800

    Reinhart, Reinhart and Rogoff · The Journal of Economic Perspectives · 2012

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    1. Unchecked“Consistent with Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) and most of the more recent research, we find that public debt overhang episodes are associated with lower growth than during other periods.”
    2. Unchecked“Among the 26 episodes we identify, 20 lasted more than a decade.”
    3. Unchecked“These growth-reducing effects of high public debt are apparently not transmitted exclusively through high real interest rates, as in eleven of the episodes, interest rates are not materially higher.”

16. Computer Science › Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization

    Critical Behavior in the Satisfiability of Random Boolean Expressions

    Kirkpatrick and Selman · Science · 1994

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    1. Unchecked“Similar sharp threshold behavior is observed for higher values of k .”
    2. Unchecked“Finite-size scaling, a method from statistical physics, can be used to characterize size-dependent effects near the threshold.”

17. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 1208.2957

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    1. Unchecked“Better results were obtained when the Solar System was assumed to have five giant planets initially and one ice giant, with the mass comparable to that of Uranus and Neptune, was ejected into interstellar space by Jupiter.”
    2. Unchecked“We found that the dynamical evolution is typically too violent, if Jupiter and Saturn start in the 3:2 resonance, leading to ejection of at least one ice giant from the Solar System.”
    3. Unchecked“The best results were obtained when the ejected planet was placed into the external 3:2 or 4:3 resonance with Saturn and M_disk ~ 20 M_Earth.”

18. Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms

    Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

    Barry, Hayman, Burgess and Jeffery · Nature Neuroscience · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“Thus grid scale reflects an interaction between intrinsic, path-integrative calculation of location and learned associations to the external environment.”

19. Physics and Astronomy › Complex Network Analysis Techniques

    The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs

    Bollobás, Janson and Riordan · Random Structures and Algorithms · 2007

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    1. Unchecked“We also consider other properties of the model, showing, for example, that when there is a giant component, it is `stable': for a typical random graph, no matter how we add or delete o(n) edges, the size of the giant component does not change by more than o(…

20. Physics and Astronomy

    arXiv 2102.03029

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    1. Unchecked“The C2DB is a highly curated open database organizing a wealth of computed properties for more than 4000 atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials.”