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pith:FIFYMSRR

pith:2025:FIFYMSRRGOE7INHKCI7XKZ2VME

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Breaking the Conventional Forward-Backward Tie in Neural Networks: Activation Functions

Francesco Gissi, Genny Tortora, Luigi Troiano, Vincenzo Benedetto

arxiv:2509.07236 v1 · 2025-09-08 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FIFYMSRRGOE7INHKCI7XKZ2VME}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:07:18.101107Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2a0b864a313389f434ea123f756755611b3233dabc4ca37281017cc0bc0c0b5e

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.07236 · arxiv_version: 2509.07236v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.07236 · pith_short_12: FIFYMSRRGOE7 · pith_short_16: FIFYMSRRGOE7INHK · pith_short_8: FIFYMSRR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FIFYMSRRGOE7INHKCI7XKZ2VME \
  | 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: 2a0b864a313389f434ea123f756755611b3233dabc4ca37281017cc0bc0c0b5e

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "53812e28ed00095f1ac0ee832d5751a82d963faffdeeb8d8e009d14e5b88e743",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-08T21:30:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "12b7b1e7e4a9edf5a68695925385bde365f8ced24ff3e2097d0522df59b03b86"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2509.07236",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}