Pith Number

pith:Y57CJWLS

pith:2022:Y57CJWLSQ7PNQNIUXFK5HIFY6B

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Learning One Abstract Bit at a Time Through Self-Invented Experiments Encoded as Neural Networks

J\"urgen Schmidhuber, Louis Kirsch, Vincent Herrmann

arxiv:2212.14374 v1 · 2022-12-29 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Y57CJWLSQ7PNQNIUXFK5HIFY6B}

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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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First computed	2026-07-05T05:29:09.337092Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c77e24d97287ded83514b955d3a0b8f0490063afc13025f8e9ecd6349e63ee01

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.14374 · arxiv_version: 2212.14374v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.14374 · pith_short_12: Y57CJWLSQ7PN · pith_short_16: Y57CJWLSQ7PNQNIU · pith_short_8: Y57CJWLS

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/Y57CJWLSQ7PNQNIUXFK5HIFY6B \
  | 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: c77e24d97287ded83514b955d3a0b8f0490063afc13025f8e9ecd6349e63ee01

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "beb19f9652907497ad8b02dafd2f171b55905f1cdb16c4b3e48b7c2d945018ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-29T17:11:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c0e2fdb172a1f37a033723fd260286df5d026f0592963f8c9c3c8901f9d687ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.14374",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}