Pith Number

pith:E4ZNFZQV

pith:2026:E4ZNFZQVBTGUSKYVPKMCGEFICT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Does Weight Decay Enhance Training Stability?

Amir Kolic, Marius Saether, Pierfrancesco Beneventano, Tomaso Poggio

arxiv:2605.16622 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.LG · math.OC · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{E4ZNFZQVBTGUSKYVPKMCGEFICT}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:32.968810Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2732d2e6150ccd492b157a982310a814f86b85ce16deb24ad06ccf0b533dcfd8

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16622 · arxiv_version: 2605.16622v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16622 · pith_short_12: E4ZNFZQVBTGU · pith_short_16: E4ZNFZQVBTGUSKYV · pith_short_8: E4ZNFZQV

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/E4ZNFZQVBTGUSKYVPKMCGEFICT \
  | 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: 2732d2e6150ccd492b157a982310a814f86b85ce16deb24ad06ccf0b533dcfd8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d3ed7a2f572e7d00279ab8308fd4414d2d825930c753b08d62054c8f338f42e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.OC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T20:43:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8021afc3eb1e29944d0322684a62cc12263ae0bd48e793296e7563c5ea1b0436"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16622",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}