Pith Number

pith:32XTU5QV

pith:2018:32XTU5QVLEKFG5EKPPQ6Z3YRY7

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On the potential for open-endedness in neural networks

Alexandra Penn, Nathaniel Virgo, Nicholas Guttenberg

arxiv:1812.04907 v1 · 2018-12-12 · nlin.AO · cs.AI · q-bio.PE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{32XTU5QVLEKFG5EKPPQ6Z3YRY7}

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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	2026-05-17T23:58:26.952346Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

deaf3a7615591453748a7be1ecef11c7ed397a42a347c82331044d74e49ae7c0

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.04907 · arxiv_version: 1812.04907v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.04907 · pith_short_12: 32XTU5QVLEKF · pith_short_16: 32XTU5QVLEKFG5EK · pith_short_8: 32XTU5QV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/32XTU5QVLEKFG5EKPPQ6Z3YRY7 \
  | 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: deaf3a7615591453748a7be1ecef11c7ed397a42a347c82331044d74e49ae7c0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d695d06d40f7da27c12a68f22c056c62db94e33b5e191b9d8923a59178c586e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "nlin.AO",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-12T11:39:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "63e71ff25e8aaf474abd9abf57b5383648e6e5dc196f7eac1265f8199a5c2e46"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1812.04907",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}