Pith Number

pith:VZGD2TRM

pith:2015:VZGD2TRM7FZUZ2GGCP3F6HH64H

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An Exploration of Softmax Alternatives Belonging to the Spherical Loss Family

Alexandre de Br\'ebisson, Pascal Vincent

arxiv:1511.05042 v3 · 2015-11-16 · cs.NE · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VZGD2TRM7FZUZ2GGCP3F6HH64H}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:19:53.419404Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae4c3d4e2cf9734ce8c613f65f1cfee1c29655859e589d83ba2f51ba7ffb360e

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.05042 · arxiv_version: 1511.05042v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.05042 · pith_short_12: VZGD2TRM7FZU · pith_short_16: VZGD2TRM7FZUZ2GG · pith_short_8: VZGD2TRM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VZGD2TRM7FZUZ2GGCP3F6HH64H \
  | 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: ae4c3d4e2cf9734ce8c613f65f1cfee1c29655859e589d83ba2f51ba7ffb360e

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7f0fd8f0eb4b701e67736e860c906dcb13694de8eadff4059e3dc071160ce955",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-16T17:15:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b4df27925a73abbe4bb48132bc62f9f531d658fc3f9e12c1f6c9de8354a5f542"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1511.05042",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}