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pith:4A3OSI2Z

pith:2017:4A3OSI2ZG2PTTFX65JSPVJO2FT

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Variational Probability Flow for Biologically Plausible Training of Deep Neural Networks

Shaowei Lin, Tony Q.S. Quek, Zuozhu Liu

arxiv:1711.07732 v1 · 2017-11-21 · cs.LG · cs.NE · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:29:56.622517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e036e92359369f3996feea64faa5da2cdbd933b0f4f3e2138eb9228fd33dd103

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.07732 · arxiv_version: 1711.07732v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.07732 · pith_short_12: 4A3OSI2ZG2PT · pith_short_16: 4A3OSI2ZG2PTTFX6 · pith_short_8: 4A3OSI2Z

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4A3OSI2ZG2PTTFX65JSPVJO2FT \
  | 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: e036e92359369f3996feea64faa5da2cdbd933b0f4f3e2138eb9228fd33dd103

Canonical record JSON

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      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-21T11:49:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f89cbb3baeb1d3c7b1ef48bc54ea525f4e42437e8894aac1ec28d777023d8fc0"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}