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pith:QP7LUMWY

pith:2018:QP7LUMWYCKTMPCZW7TXYN3PK3J

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On the importance of single directions for generalization

Ari S. Morcos, David G.T. Barrett, Matthew Botvinick, Neil C. Rabinowitz

arxiv:1803.06959 v4 · 2018-03-19 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG · cs.NE

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:27.872180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

83feba32d812a6c78b36fcef86edeada414dab007d4df081fb21eff64483590c

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.06959 · arxiv_version: 1803.06959v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.06959 · pith_short_12: QP7LUMWYCKTM · pith_short_16: QP7LUMWYCKTMPCZW · pith_short_8: QP7LUMWY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QP7LUMWYCKTMPCZW7TXYN3PK3J \
  | 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: 83feba32d812a6c78b36fcef86edeada414dab007d4df081fb21eff64483590c

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG",
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-19T14:42:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8b95dd196131cf27c28375505e7f3f128074ed4e0102f03f2e39932e0a2643c9"
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