Pith Number

pith:335DGCUZ

pith:2022:335DGCUZV2PRLEXWSRTODRRVXY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Efficient Representation of Large-Alphabet Probability Distributions

Aviv Adler, Jennifer Tang, Yury Polyanskiy

arxiv:2205.03752 v3 · 2022-05-08 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{335DGCUZV2PRLEXWSRTODRRVXY}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:05:04.579225Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

defa330a99ae9f1592f69466e1c635be04df021639bb08d3003508f5c759ea1a

Aliases

arxiv: 2205.03752 · arxiv_version: 2205.03752v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2205.03752 · pith_short_12: 335DGCUZV2PR · pith_short_16: 335DGCUZV2PRLEXW · pith_short_8: 335DGCUZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/335DGCUZV2PRLEXWSRTODRRVXY \
  | 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: defa330a99ae9f1592f69466e1c635be04df021639bb08d3003508f5c759ea1a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2fd326c7c5b6296b31ea2fc38d085f57ddce59f88b6ea10dcb216799e129cc9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2022-05-08T01:22:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "26fbde5a5f633d422c62dcbf6e7a44dae53bd22c8800dd05ece1e0bb9441ddeb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2205.03752",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}