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pith:J3PUJK7A

pith:2022:J3PUJK7AYXGISUUNRUOZSQWSFY

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The Slingshot Mechanism: An Empirical Study of Adaptive Optimizers and the Grokking Phenomenon

Etai Littwin, Joshua Susskind, Omid Saremi, Roni Paiss, Shuangfei Zhai, Vimal Thilak

arxiv:2206.04817 v2 · 2022-06-10 · cs.LG · math.OC

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Learning as Observable Matrix Dynamics: Diffusive Relaxations versus Phase Transitions

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:30:57.505509Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

4edf44abe0c5cc89528d8d1d9942d22e035c725ce8ad0f0be8e5e567a64a9b95

Aliases

arxiv: 2206.04817 · arxiv_version: 2206.04817v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2206.04817 · pith_short_12: J3PUJK7AYXGI · pith_short_16: J3PUJK7AYXGISUUN · pith_short_8: J3PUJK7A

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J3PUJK7AYXGISUUNRUOZSQWSFY \
  | 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: 4edf44abe0c5cc89528d8d1d9942d22e035c725ce8ad0f0be8e5e567a64a9b95

Canonical record JSON

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    "submitted_at": "2022-06-10T00:04:21Z",
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