Pith Number

pith:HXZA4IWW

pith:2018:HXZA4IWWF3OU3JPGYIZ4IBEXEN

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How Does Batch Normalization Help Optimization?

Aleksander Madry, Andrew Ilyas, Dimitris Tsipras, Shibani Santurkar

arxiv:1805.11604 v5 · 2018-05-29 · stat.ML · cs.LG · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HXZA4IWWF3OU3JPGYIZ4IBEXEN}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:48:40.456057Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3df20e22d62edd4da5e6c233c404972366f183560e82a22d3f3e97bdc0335fd9

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.11604 · arxiv_version: 1805.11604v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.11604 · pith_short_12: HXZA4IWWF3OU · pith_short_16: HXZA4IWWF3OU3JPG · pith_short_8: HXZA4IWW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HXZA4IWWF3OU3JPGYIZ4IBEXEN \
  | 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: 3df20e22d62edd4da5e6c233c404972366f183560e82a22d3f3e97bdc0335fd9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "364db1ad16be84982af643739b5a47d60141ccaf015ac360067f5712dafe8e67",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-29T17:42:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "96aa45a17c11332d77cd3eab3cf669d7a9c3c69059fa46f1652db70973fb6953"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.11604",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}