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pith:VDF4I5MY

pith:2018:VDF4I5MYOCFAMTKXVX73IQXKKZ

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An analytic theory of generalization dynamics and transfer learning in deep linear networks

Andrew K. Lampinen, Surya Ganguli

arxiv:1809.10374 v2 · 2018-09-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:56:52.846925Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

a8cbc47598708a064d57adffb442ea5655eaef5b73b1f2947030c40baf3aad4d

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arxiv: 1809.10374 · arxiv_version: 1809.10374v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10374 · pith_short_12: VDF4I5MYOCFA · pith_short_16: VDF4I5MYOCFAMTKX · pith_short_8: VDF4I5MY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDF4I5MYOCFAMTKXVX73IQXKKZ \
  | 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: a8cbc47598708a064d57adffb442ea5655eaef5b73b1f2947030c40baf3aad4d

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-27T06:47:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e46cde8dc80cca5eb52bd2c7a841934a844398dc7aaf11716e59c22b34df442"
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