Pith Number

pith:HYBT4HLT

pith:2026:HYBT4HLTOAHJNIMAPLLYSMN4SZ

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Toward a mechanistic understanding of inference in visual cortex and diffusion models

Alexander Belsten, Bruno A. Olshausen, Dasheng Bi, Yubei Chen, Zahra Kadkhodaie, Zeyu Yun

arxiv:2607.15693 v1 · 2026-07-17 · q-bio.NC · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HYBT4HLTOAHJNIMAPLLYSMN4SZ}

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First computed	2026-07-20T01:19:04.675087Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e033e1d73700e96a1807ad78931bc965a454031a05b62631e6b8c1adf594117

Aliases

arxiv: 2607.15693 · arxiv_version: 2607.15693v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2607.15693 · pith_short_12: HYBT4HLTOAHJ · pith_short_16: HYBT4HLTOAHJNIMA · pith_short_8: HYBT4HLT

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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/HYBT4HLTOAHJNIMAPLLYSMN4SZ \
  | 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: 3e033e1d73700e96a1807ad78931bc965a454031a05b62631e6b8c1adf594117

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a08666fed2c9c3b1458bc9d4b1d7465c73bd2226f08589cfe3f5297be78dc09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-07-17T07:11:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "bf4bde3e8572975a25ee689b512cd415f524560c0518a861de59cf9032905dbb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2607.15693",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}