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pith:IDAEN2HT

pith:2017:IDAEN2HTE5ZMJWCPSAHCBFI7IT

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Accelerated Gradient Descent Escapes Saddle Points Faster than Gradient Descent

Chi Jin, Michael I. Jordan, Praneeth Netrapalli

arxiv:1711.10456 v1 · 2017-11-28 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:22.078675Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

40c046e8f32772c4d84f900e20951f44fc914fb51ee9aeb5b8dbd7dcdc5f177e

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arxiv: 1711.10456 · arxiv_version: 1711.10456v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.10456 · pith_short_12: IDAEN2HTE5ZM · pith_short_16: IDAEN2HTE5ZMJWCP · pith_short_8: IDAEN2HT

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IDAEN2HTE5ZMJWCPSAHCBFI7IT \
  | 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: 40c046e8f32772c4d84f900e20951f44fc914fb51ee9aeb5b8dbd7dcdc5f177e

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-28T18:38:35Z",
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  },
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  }
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