Pith Number

pith:HRWXA3JD

pith:2017:HRWXA3JD2A5CNT2WR73L7VB2MN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Balanced Excitation and Inhibition are Required for High-Capacity, Noise-Robust Neuronal Selectivity

Haim Sompolinsky, L.F. Abbott, Ran Rubin

arxiv:1705.01502 v1 · 2017-05-03 · q-bio.NC · cond-mat.dis-nn · cs.LG · cs.NE · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HRWXA3JD2A5CNT2WR73L7VB2MN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:25:20.660021Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3c6d706d23d03a26cf568ff6bfd43a6360735beff58b8e9553e4c60d0764b6ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.01502 · arxiv_version: 1705.01502v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.01502 · pith_short_12: HRWXA3JD2A5C · pith_short_16: HRWXA3JD2A5CNT2W · pith_short_8: HRWXA3JD

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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/HRWXA3JD2A5CNT2WR73L7VB2MN \
  | 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: 3c6d706d23d03a26cf568ff6bfd43a6360735beff58b8e9553e4c60d0764b6ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "02951c700fb046006ce05cdcd5fdba2501a1e8b9728c35b3960163c714face5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.dis-nn",
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NE",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-03T16:38:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6624f25d1d324b4f2f3594563fdc57625d0ed76ffcb4941c8315b8be2d144310"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.01502",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}