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pith:CFXXX62N

pith:2018:CFXXX62N5SJ7MG652FXUDAOF4J

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On the Ineffectiveness of Variance Reduced Optimization for Deep Learning

Aaron Defazio, L\'eon Bottou

arxiv:1812.04529 v2 · 2018-12-11 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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Canonical hash

116f7bfb4dec93f61bddd16f4181c5e268db0b76c47d60127848cf5f137255cc

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arxiv: 1812.04529 · arxiv_version: 1812.04529v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04529 · pith_short_12: CFXXX62N5SJ7 · pith_short_16: CFXXX62N5SJ7MG65 · pith_short_8: CFXXX62N

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CFXXX62N5SJ7MG652FXUDAOF4J \
  | 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: 116f7bfb4dec93f61bddd16f4181c5e268db0b76c47d60127848cf5f137255cc

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2018-12-11T16:40:59Z",
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