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pith:2021:V4J6HRH7MEHCFGWVCXTMP4I4RA

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Continual Backprop: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Persistent Randomness

A. Rupam Mahmood, Richard S. Sutton, Shibhansh Dohare

arxiv:2108.06325 v3 · 2021-08-13 · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-05T04:20:29.063924Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

af13e3c4ff610e229ad515e6c7f11c881f096e8eb0211c28a3b6ac2d91a435ab

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arxiv: 2108.06325 · arxiv_version: 2108.06325v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.06325 · pith_short_12: V4J6HRH7MEHC · pith_short_16: V4J6HRH7MEHCFGWV · pith_short_8: V4J6HRH7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V4J6HRH7MEHCFGWVCXTMP4I4RA \
  | 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: af13e3c4ff610e229ad515e6c7f11c881f096e8eb0211c28a3b6ac2d91a435ab

Canonical record JSON

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    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-13T17:33:47Z",
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