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pith:KYCI3CS5

pith:2018:KYCI3CS5JBYWF626UVXBCSKC6O

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Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes

Hartmut Neven, Jarrod R. McClean, Ryan Babbush, Sergio Boixo, Vadim N. Smelyanskiy

arxiv:1803.11173 v1 · 2018-03-29 · quant-ph · cs.LG · physics.chem-ph

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:59.231869Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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56048d8a5d487162fb5ea56e114942f3a94b1525a37cdf1a1c244ae6098b2618

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arxiv: 1803.11173 · arxiv_version: 1803.11173v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.11173 · pith_short_12: KYCI3CS5JBYW · pith_short_16: KYCI3CS5JBYWF626 · pith_short_8: KYCI3CS5

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/KYCI3CS5JBYWF626UVXBCSKC6O \
  | 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: 56048d8a5d487162fb5ea56e114942f3a94b1525a37cdf1a1c244ae6098b2618

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    ],
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    "submitted_at": "2018-03-29T17:39:09Z",
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