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Beyond Convexity -- Contraction and Global Convergence of Gradient Descent

Jean-Jacques E. Slotine, Patrick M. Wensing

arxiv:1806.06655 v7 · 2018-06-18 · math.OC

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arxiv: 1806.06655 · arxiv_version: 1806.06655v7 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06655 · pith_short_12: 3F6VLDP7HSE2 · pith_short_16: 3F6VLDP7HSE2GT26 · pith_short_8: 3F6VLDP7
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  | 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: d97d558dff3c89a34f5e286f34b64953a134f7ef28f92ada37fc3f5e84857943
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