Pith Number

pith:WVTPM2BA

pith:2018:WVTPM2BAJ72ZBC657WU3WO7GI7

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Escaping Saddles with Stochastic Gradients

Aurelien Lucchi, Hadi Daneshmand, Jonas Kohler, Thomas Hofmann

arxiv:1803.05999 v2 · 2018-03-15 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:39.306502Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b566f668204ff5908bddfda9bb3be647d59cc9e889fe7f5d2a41f51f8b481103

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.05999 · arxiv_version: 1803.05999v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.05999 · pith_short_12: WVTPM2BAJ72Z · pith_short_16: WVTPM2BAJ72ZBC65 · pith_short_8: WVTPM2BA

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WVTPM2BAJ72ZBC657WU3WO7GI7 \
  | 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: b566f668204ff5908bddfda9bb3be647d59cc9e889fe7f5d2a41f51f8b481103

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e231826950576d89104fadff68a784526225644a112567eb360139ff6dfcebf1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-15T20:48:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6cac2cfacc4aad2e5deeea9797089044f9b2ad1d23121541cc7174493c14936f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.05999",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}