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pith:R2IOL6MB

pith:2017:R2IOL6MBGD5KWCFQBJDEUAMO52

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A Forward-Backward Approach for Visualizing Information Flow in Deep Networks

Aditya Balu, Apurva Kokate, Chinmay Hegde, Soumik Sarkar, Thanh V. Nguyen

arxiv:1711.06221 v1 · 2017-11-16 · stat.ML · cs.CV · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:23.067044Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e90e5f98130faab08b00a464a018eee9759ad8a68e1a84f2f16be679766d511

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06221 · arxiv_version: 1711.06221v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06221 · pith_short_12: R2IOL6MBGD5K · pith_short_16: R2IOL6MBGD5KWCFQ · pith_short_8: R2IOL6MB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R2IOL6MBGD5KWCFQBJDEUAMO52 \
  | 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: 8e90e5f98130faab08b00a464a018eee9759ad8a68e1a84f2f16be679766d511

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CV",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-16T18:00:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9f84a834b5374c13a96f6b0bb5c5dda62c2b01ef6c2853bcee432117b49c5043"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}