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pith:HYQZPXE4

pith:2023:HYQZPXE4SCRHRCZTOLNVM7U4XH

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Interpreting learning in biological neural networks as zero-order optimization method

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

arxiv:2301.11777 v2 · 2023-01-27 · cs.LG · cs.NE · math.ST · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-07-05T05:53:52.801471Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3e2197dc9c90a2788b3372db567e9cb9d3611abd0787d4d9d27f201d832c98ab

Aliases

arxiv: 2301.11777 · arxiv_version: 2301.11777v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.11777 · pith_short_12: HYQZPXE4SCRH · pith_short_16: HYQZPXE4SCRHRCZT · pith_short_8: HYQZPXE4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/HYQZPXE4SCRHRCZTOLNVM7U4XH \
  | 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: 3e2197dc9c90a2788b3372db567e9cb9d3611abd0787d4d9d27f201d832c98ab

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-01-27T15:30:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f70758bfe96b7ec762cd86ec268a5d27ca7ddd317bf4f5a0c374cefc47bb43f4"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2301.11777",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}