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pith:ARYSVVYB

pith:2018:ARYSVVYBFNYIAAGGWRTB2GVC5A
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Energy-entropy competition and the effectiveness of stochastic gradient descent in machine learning

Alpha A. Lee, Andrew M. Saxe, Madhu S. Advani, Yao Zhang

arxiv:1803.01927 v1 · 2018-03-05 · cs.LG · cond-mat.stat-mech · stat.ML

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First computed 2026-05-18T00:04:59.333001Z
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Canonical hash

04712ad7012b708000c6b4661d1aa2e809f56239bc9788bb6bab17d732818c9e

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.01927 · arxiv_version: 1803.01927v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.01927 · pith_short_12: ARYSVVYBFNYI · pith_short_16: ARYSVVYBFNYIAAGG · pith_short_8: ARYSVVYB
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ARYSVVYBFNYIAAGGWRTB2GVC5A \
  | 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: 04712ad7012b708000c6b4661d1aa2e809f56239bc9788bb6bab17d732818c9e
Canonical record JSON
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