Pith Number

pith:FWRBQGJB

pith:2022:FWRBQGJB75Q4VEZ2K7WXEXMYL5

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When less is more: Simplifying inputs aids neural network understanding

Robin Tibor Schirrmeister, Rosanne Liu, Sara Hooker, Tonio Ball

arxiv:2201.05610 v4 · 2022-01-14 · cs.LG · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FWRBQGJB75Q4VEZ2K7WXEXMYL5}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:53:16.064641Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2da2181921ff61ca933a57ed725d985f54cffb6effbaa73f7a01d46301075b33

Aliases

arxiv: 2201.05610 · arxiv_version: 2201.05610v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2201.05610 · pith_short_12: FWRBQGJB75Q4 · pith_short_16: FWRBQGJB75Q4VEZ2 · pith_short_8: FWRBQGJB

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FWRBQGJB75Q4VEZ2K7WXEXMYL5 \
  | 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: 2da2181921ff61ca933a57ed725d985f54cffb6effbaa73f7a01d46301075b33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dc6224fb69ac30afa8ab00914cb793092415b0f121abd6a39437852e0b711379",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2022-01-14T18:58:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ffa08da05f1162431bcac8504b6d5d3b432367e179e3218d613b7f38dbc5458"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2201.05610",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}