Pith Number

pith:LQELKQKX

pith:2018:LQELKQKXEFWCG7TJ55B4V2XLCJ

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Which Neural Net Architectures Give Rise To Exploding and Vanishing Gradients?

Boris Hanin

arxiv:1801.03744 v3 · 2018-01-11 · stat.ML · cs.LG · math.PR · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LQELKQKXEFWCG7TJ55B4V2XLCJ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:02:13.020629Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5c08b54157216c237e69ef43caeaeb127dce9bcce02d8afd6f4200be312b346c

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.03744 · arxiv_version: 1801.03744v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.03744 · pith_short_12: LQELKQKXEFWC · pith_short_16: LQELKQKXEFWCG7TJ · pith_short_8: LQELKQKX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LQELKQKXEFWCG7TJ55B4V2XLCJ \
  | 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: 5c08b54157216c237e69ef43caeaeb127dce9bcce02d8afd6f4200be312b346c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed0c704ee768e08c01e45cf1cca1cfb8f4fe811a9c44967a1d95310b86392b79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.PR",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-11T13:17:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c1b99ab75f9a8356b87a57ea69bc8fe8b6908dc0f37639898f3bb2a934d9c6c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.03744",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}