Pith Number

pith:SMKDT3WV

pith:2017:SMKDT3WVUK2WIV7WLZMSIEGU6O

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A Random Matrix Approach to Neural Networks

Cosme Louart, Romain Couillet, Zhenyu Liao

arxiv:1702.05419 v2 · 2017-02-17 · math.PR · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SMKDT3WVUK2WIV7WLZMSIEGU6O}

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:17.899154Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

931439eed5a2b56457f65e592410d4f39f0bb674c593348b6af2d44de2bac090

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05419 · arxiv_version: 1702.05419v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05419 · pith_short_12: SMKDT3WVUK2W · pith_short_16: SMKDT3WVUK2WIV7W · pith_short_8: SMKDT3WV

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/SMKDT3WVUK2WIV7WLZMSIEGU6O \
  | 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: 931439eed5a2b56457f65e592410d4f39f0bb674c593348b6af2d44de2bac090

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ccf9d0df1384cd96e9b21ac1e7a9fee6994b72c97319b7717381cf80d5037bda",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-17T16:16:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "44d0139a5fbb2310ecb7892fee13b1e23cabb09219c1ab3c2b386f6b3a1726b9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05419",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}