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pith:FM6VC6MW

pith:2017:FM6VC6MWNLIZ4SB6S7UWZ4UXMB

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A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic Gradient Descent

Quoc V. Le, Samuel L. Smith

arxiv:1710.06451 v3 · 2017-10-17 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:16.569517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2b3d5179966ad19e483e97e96cf2976070cdffd50968bcb09f72a107501bed11

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.06451 · arxiv_version: 1710.06451v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.06451 · pith_short_12: FM6VC6MWNLIZ · pith_short_16: FM6VC6MWNLIZ4SB6 · pith_short_8: FM6VC6MW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FM6VC6MWNLIZ4SB6S7UWZ4UXMB \
  | 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: 2b3d5179966ad19e483e97e96cf2976070cdffd50968bcb09f72a107501bed11

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "373bc0967e4392b4d72fccd02acc585a9d4d9662cfefa91c37193f292aac91e7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-17T18:08:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c990ac36a8c87148cbd417831fb12fcd2f9334e00e004dfacac6854fbf5dadab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.06451",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}