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pith:4SXXL6IA

pith:2017:4SXXL6IAIUK6QMQRHB74MWOYMY

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Exponentially vanishing sub-optimal local minima in multilayer neural networks

Daniel Soudry, Elad Hoffer

arxiv:1702.05777 v5 · 2017-02-19 · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:51.464296Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e4af75f9004515e83211387fc659d8660229f919e04df3ac9cbaa733c28157a9

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arxiv: 1702.05777 · arxiv_version: 1702.05777v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05777 · pith_short_12: 4SXXL6IAIUK6 · pith_short_16: 4SXXL6IAIUK6QMQR · pith_short_8: 4SXXL6IA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4SXXL6IAIUK6QMQRHB74MWOYMY \
  | 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: e4af75f9004515e83211387fc659d8660229f919e04df3ac9cbaa733c28157a9

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-19T18:12:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee27cd6e5e493be8a90393e4de1d3c374ca3f12ac6c6b51a483a602d5a5850c3"
  },
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  }
}