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pith:MRL6JZFV

pith:2021:MRL6JZFVGNOW24SOSA333LQEMK

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Convergence and Alignment of Gradient Descent with Random Backpropagation Weights

Ganlin Song, John Lafferty, Ruitu Xu

arxiv:2106.06044 v3 · 2021-06-10 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T03:43:16.637983Z
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Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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6457e4e4b5335d6d724e9037bdae046281ba2dfa0bda977f74c8d886d8603d18

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arxiv: 2106.06044 · arxiv_version: 2106.06044v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2106.06044 · pith_short_12: MRL6JZFVGNOW · pith_short_16: MRL6JZFVGNOW24SO · pith_short_8: MRL6JZFV

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MRL6JZFVGNOW24SOSA333LQEMK \
  | 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: 6457e4e4b5335d6d724e9037bdae046281ba2dfa0bda977f74c8d886d8603d18

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2021-06-10T20:58:05Z",
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