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pith:C5ZGFD2D

pith:2018:C5ZGFD2DK3WIU6FYGMLXST5Y4W

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On the loss landscape of a class of deep neural networks with no bad local valleys

Mahesh Chandra Mukkamala, Matthias Hein, Quynh Nguyen

arxiv:1809.10749 v2 · 2018-09-27 · cs.LG · cs.AI · cs.CV · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:57:31.193494Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1772628f4356ec8a78b83317794fb8e59e2cd77b0ad7f2913e5f0830bae672a7

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arxiv: 1809.10749 · arxiv_version: 1809.10749v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10749 · pith_short_12: C5ZGFD2DK3WI · pith_short_16: C5ZGFD2DK3WIU6FY · pith_short_8: C5ZGFD2D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C5ZGFD2DK3WIU6FYGMLXST5Y4W \
  | 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: 1772628f4356ec8a78b83317794fb8e59e2cd77b0ad7f2913e5f0830bae672a7

Canonical record JSON

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