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pith:KV6JDHIJ

pith:2018:KV6JDHIJC2PAUQRT5AJJS6LQL6

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Fast Approximate Natural Gradient Descent in a Kronecker-factored Eigenbasis

C\'esar Laurent, Nicolas Ballas, Pascal Vincent, Thomas George, Xavier Bouthillier

arxiv:1806.03884 v2 · 2018-06-11 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:00:25.928123Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

557c919d09169e0a4233e8129979705fa84ef8d8a1c18db451d2e8065b5e9bbc

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.03884 · arxiv_version: 1806.03884v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.03884 · pith_short_12: KV6JDHIJC2PA · pith_short_16: KV6JDHIJC2PAUQRT · pith_short_8: KV6JDHIJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KV6JDHIJC2PAUQRT5AJJS6LQL6 \
  | 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: 557c919d09169e0a4233e8129979705fa84ef8d8a1c18db451d2e8065b5e9bbc

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-11T09:44:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "48018c919b891584e8e0a2ecae90e6e0100d84de69305b15b60c9acfa9f9b76c"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
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