Pith Number

pith:LXATVQZE

pith:2019:LXATVQZEWJGXTM2IG7D77W5DMI

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Why bigger is not always better: on finite and infinite neural networks

Laurence Aitchison

arxiv:1910.08013 v3 · 2019-10-17 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LXATVQZEWJGXTM2IG7D77W5DMI}

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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	2026-07-05T01:13:06.967010Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5dc13ac324b24d79b34837c7ffdba3621a61868f15bfd8525f36539f62ceb290

Aliases

arxiv: 1910.08013 · arxiv_version: 1910.08013v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1910.08013 · pith_short_12: LXATVQZEWJGX · pith_short_16: LXATVQZEWJGXTM2I · pith_short_8: LXATVQZE

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LXATVQZEWJGXTM2IG7D77W5DMI \
  | 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: 5dc13ac324b24d79b34837c7ffdba3621a61868f15bfd8525f36539f62ceb290

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "653e0fd78a5193cfb4db612a43e8d140930a18f269ac06af685bdcb0e0dca394",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2019-10-17T16:33:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f42d197ff6d6c49deb719afa6c5c48b053149aa870ed8b3955a1cfd049731c17"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1910.08013",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}