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pith:4UJ3D23L

pith:2017:4UJ3D23LMON4SEJIAIS2LR5LWG

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The Shattered Gradients Problem: If resnets are the answer, then what is the question?

Brian McWilliams, David Balduzzi, JP Lewis, Kurt Wan-Duo Ma, Lennox Leary, Marcus Frean

arxiv:1702.08591 v2 · 2017-02-28 · cs.NE · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:14:06.900432Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e513b1eb6b639bc911280225a5c7abb1b52357b96b84ded2cfd97dde73488974

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arxiv: 1702.08591 · arxiv_version: 1702.08591v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08591 · pith_short_12: 4UJ3D23LMON4 · pith_short_16: 4UJ3D23LMON4SEJI · pith_short_8: 4UJ3D23L

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4UJ3D23LMON4SEJIAIS2LR5LWG \
  | 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: e513b1eb6b639bc911280225a5c7abb1b52357b96b84ded2cfd97dde73488974

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-28T01:06:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "418b551724924a0a5616e16a1246d8e33f8a41a16950b23b7231b778e1506687"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}