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pith:DHCH6OFU

pith:2017:DHCH6OFUQJWSBMMAYWSSZIDSJX

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Resurrecting the sigmoid in deep learning through dynamical isometry: theory and practice

Jeffrey Pennington, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Surya Ganguli

arxiv:1711.04735 v1 · 2017-11-13 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:35.816846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

19c47f38b4826d20b180c5a52ca0724de2b8e6a3a9db0fac81e58c064ac3b1c3

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arxiv: 1711.04735 · arxiv_version: 1711.04735v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.04735 · pith_short_12: DHCH6OFUQJWS · pith_short_16: DHCH6OFUQJWSBMMA · pith_short_8: DHCH6OFU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DHCH6OFUQJWSBMMAYWSSZIDSJX \
  | 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: 19c47f38b4826d20b180c5a52ca0724de2b8e6a3a9db0fac81e58c064ac3b1c3

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-13T18:06:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a247ad7c8b78ec6f4866ab5b93b739a4eb0860a68e7fa2efa0499bf3621896f6"
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