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pith:2020:2U6BIEY37Q5JI7M5SYWVZ3DJXY

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When Does Preconditioning Help or Hurt Generalization?

Atsushi Nitanda, Denny Wu, Jimmy Ba, Ji Xu, Roger Grosse, Shun-ichi Amari, Taiji Suzuki, Xuechen Li

arxiv:2006.10732 v4 · 2020-06-18 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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The Statistical Cost of Adaptation in Multi-Source Transfer Learning

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Canonical hash

d53c14131bfc3a947d9d962d5cec69be2398beada66612ef5f6e8fdef9ac7083

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arxiv: 2006.10732 · arxiv_version: 2006.10732v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.10732 · pith_short_12: 2U6BIEY37Q5J · pith_short_16: 2U6BIEY37Q5JI7M5 · pith_short_8: 2U6BIEY3

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2U6BIEY37Q5JI7M5SYWVZ3DJXY \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d53c14131bfc3a947d9d962d5cec69be2398beada66612ef5f6e8fdef9ac7083

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