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pith:UXNRSXOA

pith:2018:UXNRSXOAIEWSDAZYC4JGHKZRPT

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On the Analysis of Trajectories of Gradient Descent in the Optimization of Deep Neural Networks

Adepu Ravi Sankar, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Vishwak Srinivasan

arxiv:1807.08140 v1 · 2018-07-21 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:10:09.150817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a5db195dc0412d218338171263ab317cc4fbb2163f0218c4953284aa751fcf4a

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.08140 · arxiv_version: 1807.08140v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.08140 · pith_short_12: UXNRSXOAIEWS · pith_short_16: UXNRSXOAIEWSDAZY · pith_short_8: UXNRSXOA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UXNRSXOAIEWSDAZYC4JGHKZRPT \
  | 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: a5db195dc0412d218338171263ab317cc4fbb2163f0218c4953284aa751fcf4a

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-21T12:32:36Z",
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