Pith Number

pith:AKLVAGG2

pith:2017:AKLVAGG25DIZQHHTCKLHMTE2MD

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Function approximation with zonal function networks with activation functions analogous to the rectified linear unit functions

Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar

arxiv:1709.08174 v2 · 2017-09-24 · cs.LG · math.NA

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\pithnumber{AKLVAGG25DIZQHHTCKLHMTE2MD}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:11:18.619884Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

02975018dae8d1981cf31296764c9a60e340c92a11bb7d103e3317230ebaf4f4

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08174 · arxiv_version: 1709.08174v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08174 · pith_short_12: AKLVAGG25DIZ · pith_short_16: AKLVAGG25DIZQHHT · pith_short_8: AKLVAGG2

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/AKLVAGG25DIZQHHTCKLHMTE2MD \
  | 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: 02975018dae8d1981cf31296764c9a60e340c92a11bb7d103e3317230ebaf4f4

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5e239ca371b9218c617544864edcfcde1374e5963811f5d68509dee22bd397c5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.NA"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-24T09:55:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d848e55b2b2182b9ed7c35116552fca78d3c074ef554936674edd70b0455aa22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08174",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}