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pith:SHF6C2XK

pith:2018:SHF6C2XKDPYYNU7NMBRMQTI2NX

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On the Selection of Initialization and Activation Function for Deep Neural Networks

Arnaud Doucet, Judith Rousseau, Soufiane Hayou

arxiv:1805.08266 v2 · 2018-05-21 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{SHF6C2XKDPYYNU7NMBRMQTI2NX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:55.932514Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

91cbe16aea1bf186d3ed6062c84d1a6dd5d362d18e10f48e3e4637318201cea2

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08266 · arxiv_version: 1805.08266v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08266 · pith_short_12: SHF6C2XKDPYY · pith_short_16: SHF6C2XKDPYYNU7N · pith_short_8: SHF6C2XK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/SHF6C2XKDPYYNU7NMBRMQTI2NX \
  | 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: 91cbe16aea1bf186d3ed6062c84d1a6dd5d362d18e10f48e3e4637318201cea2

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-21T19:23:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fa4d07c98e2d190f1e23eb59d0fe485a253689a22be8e083b4822f027f095021"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08266",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}