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pith:VK447RYR

pith:2016:VK447RYRXSHZQQB2ZMLAMWYBXQ

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Deep Information Propagation

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Justin Gilmer, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Surya Ganguli

arxiv:1611.01232 v2 · 2016-11-04 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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5 papers in Pith

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Subcritical Signal Propagation at Initialization in Normalization-Free Transformers

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Canonical hash

aab9cfc711bc8f98403acb16065b01bc07f83ceafa18336aca1c09dcd7c7064f

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arxiv: 1611.01232 · arxiv_version: 1611.01232v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01232 · pith_short_12: VK447RYRXSHZ · pith_short_16: VK447RYRXSHZQQB2 · pith_short_8: VK447RYR

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VK447RYRXSHZQQB2ZMLAMWYBXQ \
  | 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: aab9cfc711bc8f98403acb16065b01bc07f83ceafa18336aca1c09dcd7c7064f

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-04T00:44:32Z",
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