Pith Number

pith:J73DI3O5

pith:2014:J73DI3O5LJ4LYDUFCL6VDCEUKN

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Why does Deep Learning work? - A perspective from Group Theory

Arnab Paul, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

arxiv:1412.6621 v3 · 2014-12-20 · cs.LG · cs.NE · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J73DI3O5LJ4LYDUFCL6VDCEUKN}

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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	2026-05-18T02:25:55.669456Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4ff6346ddd5a78bc0e8512fd518894536cc9f42474d50288d56773077fa8e20c

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.6621 · arxiv_version: 1412.6621v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.6621 · pith_short_12: J73DI3O5LJ4L · pith_short_16: J73DI3O5LJ4LYDUF · pith_short_8: J73DI3O5

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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/J73DI3O5LJ4LYDUFCL6VDCEUKN \
  | 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: 4ff6346ddd5a78bc0e8512fd518894536cc9f42474d50288d56773077fa8e20c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7378c68e1c2a421205ee4dd339475fe102d73390e5dae56a381abc9a6cc90cca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-20T07:28:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4c27b52e8718e1f4412893c832398372e3360d11954c121ebab63dbe541ca4a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.6621",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}