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pith:4GINYBX4

pith:2018:4GINYBX4HHPI2FEDMXZX4GSUGN
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Ablation of a Robot's Brain: Neural Networks Under a Knife

Peter E. Lillian, Richard Meyes, Tobias Meisen

arxiv:1812.05687 v2 · 2018-12-13 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.RO

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First computed 2026-05-17T23:54:58.591761Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
Schema pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e190dc06fc39de8d148365f37e1a54337069136fa4360339e747232ced2b9b6b

Aliases

arxiv: 1812.05687 · arxiv_version: 1812.05687v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.05687 · pith_short_12: 4GINYBX4HHPI · pith_short_16: 4GINYBX4HHPI2FED · pith_short_8: 4GINYBX4
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4GINYBX4HHPI2FEDMXZX4GSUGN \
  | 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: e190dc06fc39de8d148365f37e1a54337069136fa4360339e747232ced2b9b6b
Canonical record JSON
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
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    "submitted_at": "2018-12-13T20:58:37Z",
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