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44 claims from 27 papers, showing 1–20 of 27

1. Computer Science › Logic, programming, and type systems

   Exploiting Generative AI to Scale up Intelligent Tutoring Systems

   Jan, Karel, Zarathustra et al. · DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“As a present to Mizar on its 50th anniversary, we develop an AI/TP system that automatically proves about 60% of the Mizar theorems in the hammer setting.”
   2. Unchecked“We also automatically prove 75% of the Mizar theorems when the automated provers are helped by using only the premises used in the human-written Mizar proofs.”

2. Computer Science › Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications

   Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems

   Holland · The MIT Press eBooks · 1992

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   1. Unchecked“He demonstrates the model's universality by applying it to economics, physiological psychology, game theory, and artificial intelligence and then outlines the way in which this approach modifies the traditional views of mathematical genetics.”
   2. Unchecked“Along the way he accounts for major effects of coadaptation and coevolution: the emergence of building blocks, or schemata, that are recombined and passed on to succeeding generations to provide, innovations and improvements.”

3. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Dropout: a simple way to prevent neural networks from overfitting

   Srivastava, Hinton, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“This significantly reduces overfitting and gives major improvements over other regularization methods.”

4. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

   Grey Wolf Optimizer

   Mirjalili, Mirjalili and Lewis · Advances in Engineering Software · 2014

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   1. Unchecked“The results show that the GWO algorithm is able to provide very competitive results compared to these well-known meta-heuristics.”
   2. Unchecked“The results of the classical engineering design problems and real application prove that the proposed algorithm is applicable to challenging problems with unknown search spaces.”

5. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

   No free lunch theorems for optimization

   Wolpert and Macready · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 1997

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   1. Unchecked“A number of "no free lunch" (NFL) theorems are presented which establish that for any algorithm, any elevated performance over one class of problems is offset by performance over another class.”

6. Computer Science › Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

   Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm

   Kschischang, Frey and Loeliger · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 2001

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   1. Unchecked“Following a single, simple computational rule, the sum-product algorithm computes-either exactly or approximately-various marginal functions derived from the global function.”

7. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   BNAI, NO-TOKEN, and MIND-UNITY: Pillars of a Systemic Revolution in Artificial Intelligence

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

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   1. Unchecked“Experiments on three large language models show that chain of thought prompting improves performance on a range of arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic reasoning tasks.”
   2. Unchecked“For instance, prompting a 540B-parameter language model with just eight chain of thought exemplars achieves state of the art accuracy on the GSM8K benchmark of math word problems, surpassing even finetuned GPT-3 with a verifier.”

8. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

   Improving neural networks by preventing co-adaptation of feature detectors

   Hinton, Srivastava, Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Salakhutdinov · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“Random "dropout" gives big improvements on many benchmark tasks and sets new records for speech and object recognition.”

9. 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.”

10. 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.”

11. 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.”

12. 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.”

13. 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.”

14. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Grasshopper Optimisation Algorithm: Theory and application

    Saremi, Mirjalili and Lewis · Advances in Engineering Software · 2017

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    1. Unchecked“The results show that the proposed algorithm is able to provide superior results compared to well-known and recent algorithms in the literature.”

15. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Optimal Brain Damage

    LeCun, Denker and Solla · 1989

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    1. Unchecked“By removing unimportant weights from a network, several improvements can be expected: better generalization, fewer training examples required, and improved speed of learning and/or classification.”

16. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4

    Bubeck, Chandrasekaran, Eldan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that, beyond its mastery of language, GPT-4 can solve novel and difficult tasks that span mathematics, coding, vision, medicine, law, psychology and more, without needing any special prompting.”

17. Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence Applications

    Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

    Jared, McCandlish, Henighan et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2020

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    1. Unchecked“The loss scales as a power-law with model size, dataset size, and the amount of compute used for training, with some trends spanning more than seven orders of magnitude.”

18. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

    A Brief Overview of ChatGPT: The History, Status Quo and Potential Future Development

    Wu, He, Liu et al. · IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica · 2023

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    1. Unchecked“Specifically, from the limited open-accessed resources, we conclude the core techniques of ChatGPT, mainly including large-scale language models, in-context learning, reinforcement learning from human feedback and the key technical steps for developing Chat-…

19. Computer Science › Neural Networks and Applications

    Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

    Ba and Caruana · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“In this extended abstract, we show that shallow feed-forward networks can learn the complex functions previously learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with deep models.”
    2. Unchecked“Moreover, in some cases the shallow neural nets can learn these deep functions using a total number of parameters similar to the original deep model.”

20. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Hyper-heuristics: a survey of the state of the art

    Burke, Gendreau, Hyde et al. · Journal of the Operational Research Society · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“Two main hyper-heuristic categories can be considered: heuristic selection and heuristic generation.”
    2. Unchecked“The distinguishing feature of hyper-heuristics is that they operate on a search space of heuristics (or heuristic components) rather than directly on the search space of solutions to the underlying problem that is being addressed.”