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pith:ZLHBMU3G

pith:2017:ZLHBMU3GF45C52VIBEREXJTAYO

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On the diffusion approximation of nonconvex stochastic gradient descent

Chris Junchi Li, Jian-Guo Liu, Lei Li, Wenqing Hu

arxiv:1705.07562 v2 · 2017-05-22 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First Exit Time Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Descent Under Heavy-Tailed Gradient Noise

Why SGD is not Brownian Motion: A New Perspective on Stochastic Dynamics

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:06.147708Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cace1653662f3a2eeaa809224ba660c38fe0ccf81d69e7872ae302cdbc28f000

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.07562 · arxiv_version: 1705.07562v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.07562 · pith_short_12: ZLHBMU3GF45C · pith_short_16: ZLHBMU3GF45C52VI · pith_short_8: ZLHBMU3G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ZLHBMU3GF45C52VIBEREXJTAYO \
  | 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: cace1653662f3a2eeaa809224ba660c38fe0ccf81d69e7872ae302cdbc28f000

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-22T05:34:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e50f477bd1d0b9c8a14e7071f9fa7cfade33a95e4ea11873980df44a29d1a94"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.07562",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}