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pith:5UPBLBAI

pith:2017:5UPBLBAIL3FFL7S5ZPX2IW7ZZ4

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A Generic Approach for Escaping Saddle points

Alexander J Smola, Barnabas Poczos, Francis Bach, Manzil Zaheer, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sashank J Reddi, Suvrit Sra

arxiv:1709.01434 v1 · 2017-09-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:00.124661Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

ed1e1584085eca55fe5dcbefa45bf9cf21d447659e845f614c387580607d38c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.01434 · arxiv_version: 1709.01434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.01434 · pith_short_12: 5UPBLBAIL3FF · pith_short_16: 5UPBLBAIL3FFL7S5 · pith_short_8: 5UPBLBAI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5UPBLBAIL3FFL7S5ZPX2IW7ZZ4 \
  | 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: ed1e1584085eca55fe5dcbefa45bf9cf21d447659e845f614c387580607d38c0

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-05T14:58:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63669a0d5af51c92a9c0e5bf2d5d96081eb2e2613a42981a579d301ae8571095"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}