@article{theeffectivedepthparadoxevaluatingtherel,
  title = {The Effective Depth Paradox: Evaluating the Relationship between Architectural Topology and Trainability in Deep CNNs},
  author = {Manfred M. Fischer and Joshua Pitts},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2602.13298},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13298},
}