Pith Number

pith:K5K2S2C2

pith:2022:K5K2S2C2ONQVB4JAFMIWZLFEBY

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Vector Symbolic Finite State Machines in Attractor Neural Networks

Elisabetta Chicca, Hugh Greatorex, Madison Cotteret, Martin Ziegler

arxiv:2212.01196 v2 · 2022-12-02 · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{K5K2S2C2ONQVB4JAFMIWZLFEBY}

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:14:38.066201Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5755a9685a736150f1202b116caca40e0c67a45209527eb3f7ca48c39a26e2d2

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.01196 · arxiv_version: 2212.01196v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.01196 · pith_short_12: K5K2S2C2ONQV · pith_short_16: K5K2S2C2ONQVB4JA · pith_short_8: K5K2S2C2

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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/K5K2S2C2ONQVB4JAFMIWZLFEBY \
  | 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: 5755a9685a736150f1202b116caca40e0c67a45209527eb3f7ca48c39a26e2d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c71bb1a15bf342aaff537215bf261bbe7a353f4c847f452e0b50b29fb59ca610",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-02T14:23:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9cfca63cc69b5790c7228465f944c342329c5aff7422a853282c153cf5e0c85f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.01196",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}