Pith Number

pith:VX65PNO7

pith:2021:VX65PNO7JJSI5K3FI46OCZXC45

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Growing 3D Artefacts and Functional Machines with Neural Cellular Automata

Adam Katona, Claire Glanois, Djordje Grbic, Elias Najarro, Sebastian Risi, Shyam Sudhakaran, Siyan Li

arxiv:2103.08737 v2 · 2021-03-15 · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{VX65PNO7JJSI5K3FI46OCZXC45}

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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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Neural Cellular Automata: From Cells to Pixels

On the Emergence of Syntax by Means of Local Interaction

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:46:12.642632Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

adfdd7b5df4a648eab65473ce166e2e75c56635f17638c9b8aaa5da21484a31b

Aliases

arxiv: 2103.08737 · arxiv_version: 2103.08737v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.08737 · pith_short_12: VX65PNO7JJSI · pith_short_16: VX65PNO7JJSI5K3F · pith_short_8: VX65PNO7

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VX65PNO7JJSI5K3FI46OCZXC45 \
  | 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: adfdd7b5df4a648eab65473ce166e2e75c56635f17638c9b8aaa5da21484a31b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "193eb0e867a2e37cea8fb7f9948a61ef2cd3a024dbce9188e073862552853159",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2021-03-15T21:51:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "16f344e1ff6b7b4f979a89227e2ba95f89b0f09447daf1a9897ed0a69ed3ec05"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2103.08737",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}