Pith Number

pith:IC6BXJ25

pith:2016:IC6BXJ25NILB6276OVLOW4MHG4

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Towards a Mathematical Understanding of the Difficulty in Learning with Feedforward Neural Networks

Hao Shen

arxiv:1611.05827 v3 · 2016-11-17 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.NE · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IC6BXJ25NILB6276OVLOW4MHG4}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:52.036147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

40bc1ba75d6a161f6bfe7556eb718737208ae9052ec3af3689e0985959f104c1

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.05827 · arxiv_version: 1611.05827v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.05827 · pith_short_12: IC6BXJ25NILB · pith_short_16: IC6BXJ25NILB6276 · pith_short_8: IC6BXJ25

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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/IC6BXJ25NILB6276OVLOW4MHG4 \
  | 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: 40bc1ba75d6a161f6bfe7556eb718737208ae9052ec3af3689e0985959f104c1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3da5f4a81ae3b9bbbbd14d95e7d6d03b4b73b71679fec5c310218365157c8d16",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.NE",
      "math.OC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-17T19:29:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ee5da76dd7b7062c42dfd45921c86229b60f7505f9b016ae2d490691cbefebdf"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.05827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}