Pith Number

pith:2HPWVFZD

pith:2017:2HPWVFZDPUHUFC76ETA7BW74U4

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The Consciousness Prior

Yoshua Bengio

arxiv:1709.08568 v2 · 2017-09-25 · cs.LG · cs.AI · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{2HPWVFZDPUHUFC76ETA7BW74U4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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8 papers in Pith

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:23:19.391786Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1df6a97237d0f428bfe24c1f0dbfca70b4bc47284b0d270139d4552d95d6c47

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08568 · arxiv_version: 1709.08568v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08568 · pith_short_12: 2HPWVFZDPUHU · pith_short_16: 2HPWVFZDPUHUFC76 · pith_short_8: 2HPWVFZD

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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/2HPWVFZDPUHUFC76ETA7BW74U4 \
  | 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: d1df6a97237d0f428bfe24c1f0dbfca70b4bc47284b0d270139d4552d95d6c47

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "306c07ae3b0de96a377e8cbdd2d97016f50bcdd7ef56af0a430072220b324bb4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T15:59:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6a422aac23e8f855a90ba5dea927cc1e99143f26a33a87acd01f83532a848507"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08568",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}