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pith:XJM42ZHX

pith:2026:XJM42ZHXWVZKWIZIOLMNALAN5G

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Self-Distillation of Hidden Layers for Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Anthony Fuller, Evan Shelhamer, Graham W. Taylor, Sageev Oore, Scott C. Lowe

arxiv:2603.15553 v2 · 2026-03-16 · cs.CV · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-07-28T02:24:18.451102Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ba59cd64f7b572ab232872d8d02c0de9b38bb945d82c4c3cf2a291a34f5b63ae

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arxiv: 2603.15553 · arxiv_version: 2603.15553v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2603.15553 · pith_short_12: XJM42ZHXWVZK · pith_short_16: XJM42ZHXWVZKWIZI · pith_short_8: XJM42ZHX

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XJM42ZHXWVZKWIZIOLMNALAN5G \
  | 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: ba59cd64f7b572ab232872d8d02c0de9b38bb945d82c4c3cf2a291a34f5b63ae

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-03-16T17:13:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "edce04ba4dd0bac8b8ee823d2f71144c207d6166bbed7d0452ab51201af176fb"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}