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pith:2018:VKSXEM4VQ5M2OE3BW5UT6JSR4V

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Dynamical Isometry and a Mean Field Theory of RNNs: Gating Enables Signal Propagation in Recurrent Neural Networks

Jeffrey Pennington, Minmin Chen, Samuel S. Schoenholz

arxiv:1806.05394 v2 · 2018-06-14 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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arxiv: 1806.05394 · arxiv_version: 1806.05394v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.05394 · pith_short_12: VKSXEM4VQ5M2 · pith_short_16: VKSXEM4VQ5M2OE3B · pith_short_8: VKSXEM4V

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VKSXEM4VQ5M2OE3BW5UT6JSR4V \
  | 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: aaa57233958759a71361b7693f2651e54bbb32bfb4737a53ad4da86929cdabb2

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