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pith:JZ43ZQMX

pith:2019:JZ43ZQMXXKFMIGYHE43TY2WLB4

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Principled Training of Neural Networks with Direct Feedback Alignment

Florent Krzakala, Iacopo Poli, Julien Launay

arxiv:1906.04554 v1 · 2019-06-11 · stat.ML · cs.LG · cs.NE

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:43:38.914739Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

4e79bcc197ba8ac41b0727373c6acb0f2cfaee8c8c38dd5ffe3b13672266b096

Aliases

arxiv: 1906.04554 · arxiv_version: 1906.04554v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1906.04554 · pith_short_12: JZ43ZQMXXKFM · pith_short_16: JZ43ZQMXXKFMIGYH · pith_short_8: JZ43ZQMX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JZ43ZQMXXKFMIGYHE43TY2WLB4 \
  | 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: 4e79bcc197ba8ac41b0727373c6acb0f2cfaee8c8c38dd5ffe3b13672266b096

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-06-11T13:08:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec1212b74552dba56c1c99823c1680fa30fed6b8db7013cb3491456f6658a250"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}