Pith Number

pith:WUTIOJN3

pith:2017:WUTIOJN3CF7BPSQBGQXLZYJW4W

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Spurious Local Minima are Common in Two-Layer ReLU Neural Networks

Itay Safran, Ohad Shamir

arxiv:1712.08968 v3 · 2017-12-24 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WUTIOJN3CF7BPSQBGQXLZYJW4W}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:08:31.258254Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b5268725bb117e17ca01342ebce136e580d37d7ce6a59ee3136fd5a0515b3d3c

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08968 · arxiv_version: 1712.08968v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08968 · pith_short_12: WUTIOJN3CF7B · pith_short_16: WUTIOJN3CF7BPSQB · pith_short_8: WUTIOJN3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WUTIOJN3CF7BPSQBGQXLZYJW4W \
  | 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: b5268725bb117e17ca01342ebce136e580d37d7ce6a59ee3136fd5a0515b3d3c

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-24T21:00:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7fe1cbcbcfdcbb525658cf10d63f1abab25c1f387d66c8607c61a825dbfe81f3"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}