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pith:UF5RR27I

pith:2017:UF5RR27IZXZCMWUQDQVQ4GVC2W

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Scalable Training of Artificial Neural Networks with Adaptive Sparse Connectivity inspired by Network Science

Antonio Liotta, Decebal Constantin Mocanu, Elena Mocanu, Madeleine Gibescu, Peter Stone, Phuong H. Nguyen

arxiv:1707.04780 v2 · 2017-07-15 · cs.NE · cs.AI · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:48.781932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a17b18ebe8cdf2265a901c2b0e1aa2d5a99107bc45973f272685bf7eaecc813c

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.04780 · arxiv_version: 1707.04780v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.04780 · pith_short_12: UF5RR27IZXZC · pith_short_16: UF5RR27IZXZCMWUQ · pith_short_8: UF5RR27I

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UF5RR27IZXZCMWUQDQVQ4GVC2W \
  | 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: a17b18ebe8cdf2265a901c2b0e1aa2d5a99107bc45973f272685bf7eaecc813c

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-15T19:46:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eb77806e6019508630b0d0c7244b6e2a36cff4d2bdd2189307c0c4367f6762d5"
  },
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  }
}