Pith Number

pith:ACCWEDAK

pith:2020:ACCWEDAKGSUQQBA7EU5Q2WARQL

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Predictive Coding Approximates Backprop along Arbitrary Computation Graphs

Alexander Tschantz, Beren Millidge, Christopher L. Buckley

arxiv:2006.04182 v5 · 2020-06-07 · cs.LG · cs.NE

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LPC-SM: Local Predictive Coding and Sparse Memory for Long-Context Language Modeling

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:40:30.438428Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0085620c0a34a908041f253b0d581182f8559c3449b604b7ca246e233e880883

Aliases

arxiv: 2006.04182 · arxiv_version: 2006.04182v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2006.04182 · pith_short_12: ACCWEDAKGSUQ · pith_short_16: ACCWEDAKGSUQQBA7 · pith_short_8: ACCWEDAK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/ACCWEDAKGSUQQBA7EU5Q2WARQL \
  | 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: 0085620c0a34a908041f253b0d581182f8559c3449b604b7ca246e233e880883

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8a277ca46dee780fc7aff82c4738dc6b7f5c2b871b7863c335ed67af3ed7e7b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-06-07T15:35:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "07e96ae9f58d3798f81aaf63d488e68f825999c6369cbb326512dba1a9f7ce90"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2006.04182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}