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pith:2018:P7HI7IUZ2D4BWY3OX4YBCD7BZN

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On the Computational Inefficiency of Large Batch Sizes for Stochastic Gradient Descent

Amir Gholami, Joseph Gonzalez, Kai Rothauge, Michael W. Mahoney, Nikita Vemuri, Noah Golmant, Vladimir Feinberg, Zhewei Yao

arxiv:1811.12941 v1 · 2018-11-30 · cs.LG · cs.DC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:28.085084Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

7fce8fa299d0f81b636ebf30110fe1cb54e1c4eb60246b5efe9478b0e5ebed00

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arxiv: 1811.12941 · arxiv_version: 1811.12941v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.12941 · pith_short_12: P7HI7IUZ2D4B · pith_short_16: P7HI7IUZ2D4BWY3O · pith_short_8: P7HI7IUZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P7HI7IUZ2D4BWY3OX4YBCD7BZN \
  | 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: 7fce8fa299d0f81b636ebf30110fe1cb54e1c4eb60246b5efe9478b0e5ebed00

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    ],
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    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-30T18:58:59Z",
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