Pith Number

pith:DFBVGKRQ

pith:2017:DFBVGKRQ57RDQV5UZ7UDV45DTO

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Shifting Mean Activation Towards Zero with Bipolar Activation Functions

Arild N{\o}kland, Lars Eidnes

arxiv:1709.04054 v3 · 2017-09-12 · stat.ML · cs.LG · cs.NE

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\pithnumber{DFBVGKRQ57RDQV5UZ7UDV45DTO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:56.240239Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1943532a30efe23857b4cfe83af3a39ba8652e056b140816fd54ef84bf7354af

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.04054 · arxiv_version: 1709.04054v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.04054 · pith_short_12: DFBVGKRQ57RD · pith_short_16: DFBVGKRQ57RDQV5U · pith_short_8: DFBVGKRQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DFBVGKRQ57RDQV5UZ7UDV45DTO \
  | 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: 1943532a30efe23857b4cfe83af3a39ba8652e056b140816fd54ef84bf7354af

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "31d217290bb22c51974e59caf6009d9f6e647782bf0032beec5a6af693e27311",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T20:44:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e853eca704cbabe3bb9537c34d666fd118eb7c1366b4753878f15accdf2d2a7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.04054",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}