Pith Number

pith:AF4ZZJM3

pith:2017:AF4ZZJM3FWLP2CEYYOXGBD4YS2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Unsupervised Learning by Predicting Noise

Armand Joulin, Piotr Bojanowski

arxiv:1704.05310 v1 · 2017-04-18 · stat.ML · cs.CV · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AF4ZZJM3FWLP2CEYYOXGBD4YS2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:46:11.346906Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

01799ca59b2d96fd0898c3ae608f98968eec1db1d02f39ba15849e79d1f30bbb

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.05310 · arxiv_version: 1704.05310v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.05310 · pith_short_12: AF4ZZJM3FWLP · pith_short_16: AF4ZZJM3FWLP2CEY · pith_short_8: AF4ZZJM3

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AF4ZZJM3FWLP2CEYYOXGBD4YS2 \
  | 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: 01799ca59b2d96fd0898c3ae608f98968eec1db1d02f39ba15849e79d1f30bbb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b110a054ea25377f5b83b261d6defd9a99a3f412d5c75637e9dc41aa9ad43230",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-18T12:51:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d665e02b255c6fd4bf3ee88bc8c883b09e94e7564451f21afecd374275e7f8a3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.05310",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}