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pith:NT4R4OXK

pith:2016:NT4R4OXK2H36STARYMKX565QAQ

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Feedforward Initialization for Fast Inference of Deep Generative Networks is biologically plausible

Benjamin Scellier, Joao Sacramento, Olexa Bilaniuk, Walter Senn, Yoshua Bengio

arxiv:1606.01651 v2 · 2016-06-06 · cs.LG · cs.NE · q-bio.NC

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\pithnumber{NT4R4OXK2H36STARYMKX565QAQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:47.828459Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6cf91e3aead1f7e94c11c3157efbb00412859b28e5ce6e595d75f920dd8abd40

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.01651 · arxiv_version: 1606.01651v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.01651 · pith_short_12: NT4R4OXK2H36 · pith_short_16: NT4R4OXK2H36STAR · pith_short_8: NT4R4OXK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NT4R4OXK2H36STARYMKX565QAQ \
  | 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: 6cf91e3aead1f7e94c11c3157efbb00412859b28e5ce6e595d75f920dd8abd40

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "733f7c7b27dbc61784e3a8fa9e5378188fc01d891c8e6e08e539b65e0202746f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE",
      "q-bio.NC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-06T08:09:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b1b3cda6aba6f8e99e43e0f8788836f0e4ac8ceb9baaf9035ccd3afa0c99e85"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1606.01651",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}