Pith Number

pith:QDQPRSUL

pith:2023:QDQPRSUL3Y6DKI7K2B5MQFQO6E

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A surprisingly simple technique to control the pretraining bias for better transfer: Expand or Narrow your representation

Florian Bordes, Nicolas Ballas, Pascal Vincent, Randall Balestriero, Samuel Lavoie

arxiv:2304.05369 v1 · 2023-04-11 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QDQPRSUL3Y6DKI7K2B5MQFQO6E}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T05:59:58.828058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80e0f8ca8bde3c3523ead07ac8160ef10a1a0984b176cafc0d6b43cabbe23b80

Aliases

arxiv: 2304.05369 · arxiv_version: 2304.05369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2304.05369 · pith_short_12: QDQPRSUL3Y6D · pith_short_16: QDQPRSUL3Y6DKI7K · pith_short_8: QDQPRSUL

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QDQPRSUL3Y6DKI7K2B5MQFQO6E \
  | 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: 80e0f8ca8bde3c3523ead07ac8160ef10a1a0984b176cafc0d6b43cabbe23b80

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aee26cec4fb9b3b37ffa2c1df539ba82f9dee73e1a7157e4747424b93d5bc986",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2023-04-11T17:24:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42585dc3e803f2015fb3ce6f0843187bddf36a12823683b2db4f7c21152b4141"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2304.05369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}