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pith:AAESLMTU

pith:2017:AAESLMTUDFPA5LL2S3JSFRTXR2

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Forward Thinking: Building and Training Neural Networks One Layer at a Time

Ben Ehlert, Chris Hettinger, Jeffrey Humpherys, Sean Wade, Tanner Christensen, Tyler Jarvis

arxiv:1706.02480 v1 · 2017-06-08 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{AAESLMTUDFPA5LL2S3JSFRTXR2}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:42:45.366566Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

000925b274195e0ead7a96d322c6778e96186174a7b598b78345f73eb7ffaaaa

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.02480 · arxiv_version: 1706.02480v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.02480 · pith_short_12: AAESLMTUDFPA · pith_short_16: AAESLMTUDFPA5LL2 · pith_short_8: AAESLMTU

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AAESLMTUDFPA5LL2S3JSFRTXR2 \
  | 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: 000925b274195e0ead7a96d322c6778e96186174a7b598b78345f73eb7ffaaaa

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-08T08:53:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "66a52e1a2666a0f0e707ff9d897877184bc721c36496bb409d817b5e59cdfbe3"
  },
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