Pith Number

pith:4WPWJS2R

pith:2018:4WPWJS2RVLHFQPJRUNQRGKVYQB

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Critical initialisation for deep signal propagation in noisy rectifier neural networks

Arnu Pretorius, Elan Van Biljon, Herman Kamper, Steve Kroon

arxiv:1811.00293 v2 · 2018-11-01 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{4WPWJS2RVLHFQPJRUNQRGKVYQB}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:59:32.054939Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e59f64cb51aace583d31a361132ab8805ac1ae8e588e32bcb1545199efa70b20

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.00293 · arxiv_version: 1811.00293v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.00293 · pith_short_12: 4WPWJS2RVLHF · pith_short_16: 4WPWJS2RVLHFQPJR · pith_short_8: 4WPWJS2R

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4WPWJS2RVLHFQPJRUNQRGKVYQB \
  | 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: e59f64cb51aace583d31a361132ab8805ac1ae8e588e32bcb1545199efa70b20

Canonical record JSON

{
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-01T09:58:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6ed899d41dc9a181b86da46baac65170b9e6bc4e2fca3d0a102693583c4a0984"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.00293",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}