Pith Number

pith:3GG6T5VF

pith:2018:3GG6T5VFRU2XQ4J7WMGSIJ2RBF

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On the Universality of the Logistic Loss Function

Amichai Painsky, Gregory W. Wornell

arxiv:1805.03804 v1 · 2018-05-10 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3GG6T5VFRU2XQ4J7WMGSIJ2RBF}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:18.715122Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d98de9f6a58d3578713fb30d2427510940be52c5cfdb4c67ac158f41f2fbbaae

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.03804 · arxiv_version: 1805.03804v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.03804 · pith_short_12: 3GG6T5VFRU2X · pith_short_16: 3GG6T5VFRU2XQ4J7 · pith_short_8: 3GG6T5VF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3GG6T5VFRU2XQ4J7WMGSIJ2RBF \
  | 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: d98de9f6a58d3578713fb30d2427510940be52c5cfdb4c67ac158f41f2fbbaae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "06ccbab56e7772f9b904796008c9b17d41d5d16dac15d8b4c501e1e7fe593734",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-10T04:03:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e8a1883048c68a7c293378425b76f1a5589afaada0ba2cc41c6db6717178193"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.03804",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}