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pith:UBTHUNEE

pith:2017:UBTHUNEETNR4ENHZFPJRTDPP5H

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A learning framework for winner-take-all networks with stochastic synapses

Gert Cauwenberghs, Hesham Mostafa

arxiv:1708.04251 v2 · 2017-08-14 · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UBTHUNEETNR4ENHZFPJRTDPP5H}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:24:22.417633Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a0667a34849b63c234f92bd3198defe9fe1f65566a10be09e3664b5810bf208b

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.04251 · arxiv_version: 1708.04251v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.04251 · pith_short_12: UBTHUNEETNR4 · pith_short_16: UBTHUNEETNR4ENHZ · pith_short_8: UBTHUNEE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UBTHUNEETNR4ENHZFPJRTDPP5H \
  | 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: a0667a34849b63c234f92bd3198defe9fe1f65566a10be09e3664b5810bf208b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bfd252c51c81333cf517958120deb14044b6f292d30d9ab42b8c36de239f1ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-14T18:03:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "01fb2aeaf45c125714cab2f3f14adc6201419dc3793db6f47fa38bc73368e578"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.04251",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}