Pith Number

pith:56VZ4GKX

pith:2025:56VZ4GKXWQO5MQYGQPL3OCYX2E

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Unambiguous Representations in Neural Networks: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Intentionality

Francesco L\"assig

arxiv:2512.11000 v2 · 2025-12-10 · q-bio.NC · cs.AI · cs.NE

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\pithnumber{56VZ4GKXWQO5MQYGQPL3OCYX2E}

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First computed	2026-06-09T01:05:11.642031Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

efab9e1957b41dd6430683d7b70b17d10cb76c5177ef9ff73bc1c9a73b362d4c

Aliases

arxiv: 2512.11000 · arxiv_version: 2512.11000v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.11000 · pith_short_12: 56VZ4GKXWQO5 · pith_short_16: 56VZ4GKXWQO5MQYG · pith_short_8: 56VZ4GKX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/56VZ4GKXWQO5MQYGQPL3OCYX2E \
  | 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: efab9e1957b41dd6430683d7b70b17d10cb76c5177ef9ff73bc1c9a73b362d4c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7965320e0f37541094bd9cb978bf4dce23238b6ed74ada15b429c00d3fa91a52",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-12-10T19:00:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d74ee7929c0bad5b26d6b58714a1599b1bb4394e02135cab29bfb10be203dd8e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2512.11000",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}