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pith:GI6DXVPN

pith:2022:GI6DXVPNSV6KGSDT6M2577M3VH

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Pruning: Return of the Most Naive Baseline for Sparse Training

Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Li Shen, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Shiwei Liu, Tianlong Chen, Xiaohan Chen, Zhangyang Wang

arxiv:2202.02643 v1 · 2022-02-05 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CV

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:54:31.467382Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

323c3bd5ed957ca34873f335dffd9ba9e5a76b6aa811afeddfe59444f4415aa7

Aliases

arxiv: 2202.02643 · arxiv_version: 2202.02643v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.02643 · pith_short_12: GI6DXVPNSV6K · pith_short_16: GI6DXVPNSV6KGSDT · pith_short_8: GI6DXVPN

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GI6DXVPNSV6KGSDT6M2577M3VH \
  | 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: 323c3bd5ed957ca34873f335dffd9ba9e5a76b6aa811afeddfe59444f4415aa7

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2022-02-05T21:19:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e21408e4e17327dc419dc0012f7a191d9151a615618959039493008b90e216d2"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}