Pith Number

pith:2HU6QGS2

pith:2019:2HU6QGS2FALFMMR7LWDMXQSRZJ

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Structured Mean-field Variational Inference and Learning in Winner-take-all Spiking Neural Networks

Hideaki Shimazaki, Shashwat Shukla, Udayan Ganguly

arxiv:1911.05943 v1 · 2019-11-14 · q-bio.NC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2HU6QGS2FALFMMR7LWDMXQSRZJ}

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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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First computed	2026-07-05T00:19:13.953048Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d1e9e81a5a281656323f5d86cbc251ca41374b724c733c8ebded20b7d2947cb2

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.05943 · arxiv_version: 1911.05943v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.05943 · pith_short_12: 2HU6QGS2FALF · pith_short_16: 2HU6QGS2FALFMMR7 · pith_short_8: 2HU6QGS2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2HU6QGS2FALFMMR7LWDMXQSRZJ \
  | 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: d1e9e81a5a281656323f5d86cbc251ca41374b724c733c8ebded20b7d2947cb2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c228e518354724ac4e9199c32a0e739a4548c35f4057ae491ef0cc8ed1875458",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-14T05:31:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ab2b76e50f5513bcfd3b54404c0cd34769c94c7e81d65ab187df679a0fc5214c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.05943",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}