Pith Number

pith:Z323LHCU

pith:2019:Z323LHCUPCWD7RPIWABT6SKJHT

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Convergence of gradient descent-ascent analyzed as a Newtonian dynamical system with dissipation

H. Sebastian Seung

arxiv:1903.02536 v1 · 2019-03-05 · math.OC · cs.GT · cs.LG · cs.NE

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\pithnumber{Z323LHCUPCWD7RPIWABT6SKJHT}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:51:55.122047Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cef5b59c5478ac3fc5e8b0033f49493cd6026e9b12b21c8ef1aae34c0b1458b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.02536 · arxiv_version: 1903.02536v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.02536 · pith_short_12: Z323LHCUPCWD · pith_short_16: Z323LHCUPCWD7RPI · pith_short_8: Z323LHCU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Z323LHCUPCWD7RPIWABT6SKJHT \
  | 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: cef5b59c5478ac3fc5e8b0033f49493cd6026e9b12b21c8ef1aae34c0b1458b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "74efd07589549162a62705995a4b475533382e03a0eca7cedc73024783ec1641",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-05T03:09:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58cfa67afdbcb45471dbbf71dc7acc3c6bb83f6058f83aa2a9f4f64fe9df4b70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.02536",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}