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pith:6UFXJ4RT

pith:2018:6UFXJ4RTHI3LCTCHIV3YY5K2FI

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Whetstone: A Method for Training Deep Artificial Neural Networks for Binary Communication

Craig M. Vineyard, James B. Aimone, Ryan Dellana, Stephen J. Verzi, William Severa

arxiv:1810.11521 v1 · 2018-10-26 · cs.NE · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:55:28.783774Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f50b74f2333a36b14c4745778c755a2a3be03ed2227f72f60432985413b34724

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.11521 · arxiv_version: 1810.11521v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.11521 · pith_short_12: 6UFXJ4RTHI3L · pith_short_16: 6UFXJ4RTHI3LCTCH · pith_short_8: 6UFXJ4RT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6UFXJ4RTHI3LCTCHIV3YY5K2FI \
  | 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: f50b74f2333a36b14c4745778c755a2a3be03ed2227f72f60432985413b34724

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-26T20:24:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5baf66c64dc0c08c6224d685678d01ffcd855f459db3e5a2d07b94cbed96e1c"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}