Pith Number

pith:WQGNKWBG

pith:2026:WQGNKWBGBL2QYE6QWOO4FPXIBB

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Gradient-Free Training of Spiking Neural Networks via Low-Rank Evolution Strategies

Dhruv Patankar, Sachit Ramesha Gowda

arxiv:2605.30361 v1 · 2026-05-14 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{WQGNKWBGBL2QYE6QWOO4FPXIBB}

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First computed	2026-06-01T00:02:06.741718Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b40cd558260af50c13d0b39dc2bee80861faf0f6dff62d3cff3db9c3e914760a

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.30361 · arxiv_version: 2605.30361v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.30361 · pith_short_12: WQGNKWBGBL2Q · pith_short_16: WQGNKWBGBL2QYE6Q · pith_short_8: WQGNKWBG

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/WQGNKWBGBL2QYE6QWOO4FPXIBB \
  | 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: b40cd558260af50c13d0b39dc2bee80861faf0f6dff62d3cff3db9c3e914760a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81d47a994dce0fdfe8c6194f06cef699c2fbe30c635ab2186545752b0682514a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-14T05:42:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "753a369cb382ae03ea04b7d2262ff26165d787ef32b51280d6549297222adf12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.30361",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}