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pith:SB74GJ2I

pith:2019:SB74GJ2IYBZKSNQCHDHKAJ3AAJ

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The Step Decay Schedule: A Near Optimal, Geometrically Decaying Learning Rate Procedure For Least Squares

Praneeth Netrapalli, Rahul Kidambi, Rong Ge, Sham M. Kakade

arxiv:1904.12838 v2 · 2019-04-29 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:15:23.095667Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

907fc32748c072a9360238cea027600273bb8e7b4da36882ef6f3a1ebb29f4ca

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arxiv: 1904.12838 · arxiv_version: 1904.12838v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.12838 · pith_short_12: SB74GJ2IYBZK · pith_short_16: SB74GJ2IYBZKSNQC · pith_short_8: SB74GJ2I

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SB74GJ2IYBZKSNQCHDHKAJ3AAJ \
  | 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: 907fc32748c072a9360238cea027600273bb8e7b4da36882ef6f3a1ebb29f4ca

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2019-04-29T17:41:27Z",
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