Pith Number

pith:VC4KYBL5

pith:2016:VC4KYBL5C4H4PJMYK6CHUUZTPQ

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Sparsely-Connected Neural Networks: Towards Efficient VLSI Implementation of Deep Neural Networks

Arash Ardakani, Carlo Condo, Warren J. Gross

arxiv:1611.01427 v3 · 2016-11-04 · cs.NE · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{VC4KYBL5C4H4PJMYK6CHUUZTPQ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:47:33.476376Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8b8ac057d170fc7a59857847a53337c1dfc484b455495fc6041862ec643536f

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.01427 · arxiv_version: 1611.01427v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.01427 · pith_short_12: VC4KYBL5C4H4 · pith_short_16: VC4KYBL5C4H4PJMY · pith_short_8: VC4KYBL5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VC4KYBL5C4H4PJMYK6CHUUZTPQ \
  | 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: a8b8ac057d170fc7a59857847a53337c1dfc484b455495fc6041862ec643536f

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bc1a0cc53dd1786c2cee1721e067c8da5e135c01513ea11ba01e08258992688",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-04T15:47:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d4e8640681ba309522247e19bc11bc5997265a32dd4f3b6fd9534583c346296"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1611.01427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}