Pith Number

pith:RRCP5CGY

pith:2026:RRCP5CGYD4KSYW3ZT54XV6JXUU

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Contrast encodes inductive bias: separating slow noise from dynamics in predictive representation learning

Ilya Nemenman, Paarth Gulati

arxiv:2606.07770 v1 · 2026-06-05 · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{RRCP5CGYD4KSYW3ZT54XV6JXUU}

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First computed	2026-06-09T01:04:51.771799Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8c44fe88d81f152c5b799f797af937a527f63d5ad2a8202964b8e2db9c5fbce8

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.07770 · arxiv_version: 2606.07770v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.07770 · pith_short_12: RRCP5CGYD4KS · pith_short_16: RRCP5CGYD4KSYW3Z · pith_short_8: RRCP5CGY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RRCP5CGYD4KSYW3ZT54XV6JXUU \
  | 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: 8c44fe88d81f152c5b799f797af937a527f63d5ad2a8202964b8e2db9c5fbce8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "130f4b76ee0268421a1303a240dfd8f2707247eb857a2b5e575beda653e81393",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-05T18:28:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "46c5b07971cc65bdbcb33355846a186ec48298acef28626825353fcecdc316c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.07770",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}