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pith:6FEGSNO5

pith:2018:6FEGSNO5OWCQEN3ZOVWWY6OJFY

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Parameterless Stochastic Natural Gradient Method for Discrete Optimization and its Application to Hyper-Parameter Optimization for Neural Network

Hernan Aguirre, Kouhei Nishida, Shinichi Shirakawa, Shota Saito, Youhei Akimoto

arxiv:1809.06517 v1 · 2018-09-18 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:26.925503Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f1486935dd7585023779756d6c79c92e0f1dd8f3fa1f970bbfa284491812c83d

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.06517 · arxiv_version: 1809.06517v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.06517 · pith_short_12: 6FEGSNO5OWCQ · pith_short_16: 6FEGSNO5OWCQEN3Z · pith_short_8: 6FEGSNO5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6FEGSNO5OWCQEN3ZOVWWY6OJFY \
  | 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: f1486935dd7585023779756d6c79c92e0f1dd8f3fa1f970bbfa284491812c83d

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-18T03:27:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee9bac48ad87708fb7406445078d00fadb13d7cd29f9070076dadc539aa3e1d8"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}