Pith Number

pith:YVPTOOF7

pith:2017:YVPTOOF77JEXZ7QXRVHRXMAYDZ

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Why do similarity matching objectives lead to Hebbian/anti-Hebbian networks?

Anirvan Sengupta, Cengiz Pehlevan, Dmitri B. Chklovskii

arxiv:1703.07914 v2 · 2017-03-23 · q-bio.NC · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YVPTOOF77JEXZ7QXRVHRXMAYDZ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:30.514993Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c55f3738bffa497cfe178d4f1bb0181e73fd12c054558886fa48aa73ff4b8daf

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.07914 · arxiv_version: 1703.07914v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.07914 · pith_short_12: YVPTOOF77JEX · pith_short_16: YVPTOOF77JEXZ7QX · pith_short_8: YVPTOOF7

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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/YVPTOOF77JEXZ7QXRVHRXMAYDZ \
  | 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: c55f3738bffa497cfe178d4f1bb0181e73fd12c054558886fa48aa73ff4b8daf

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b76f7fe258ca047f12f18bddb31b0548dcafb507bcfe131dcacee0e7e661ddc3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.NE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.NC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-23T03:16:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3189133345b447b6727550d6453f079d3cd3fb0c218d7a6bd1bf1f7817f10754"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.07914",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}