Pith Number

pith:QM6YBJE5

pith:2018:QM6YBJE53G2VQSGFX3PYSDPDWA

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Knots in random neural networks

Alden K. Walker, Anthony C. Gamst, Kevin K. Chen

arxiv:1811.11152 v1 · 2018-11-27 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{QM6YBJE53G2VQSGFX3PYSDPDWA}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:45.139051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

833d80a49dd9b55848c5bedf890de3b006cc738a8c39c78b68ffa3eea9c65f85

Aliases

arxiv: 1811.11152 · arxiv_version: 1811.11152v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1811.11152 · pith_short_12: QM6YBJE53G2V · pith_short_16: QM6YBJE53G2VQSGF · pith_short_8: QM6YBJE5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QM6YBJE53G2VQSGFX3PYSDPDWA \
  | 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: 833d80a49dd9b55848c5bedf890de3b006cc738a8c39c78b68ffa3eea9c65f85

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b0025a3e3dbb5bb95d7c4fa61755e1cad2a2f1d2f486bcf48c98ac18fc7238f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-11-27T18:33:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18aadc80476a5210c10831b7003a770bde453237a2d38e047b6e7242294c62ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1811.11152",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}