Pith Number

pith:37BP6JOE

pith:2018:37BP6JOEXC2KZMSXOY4HBEIWCB

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Designing Optimal Binary Rating Systems

Nikhil Garg, Ramesh Johari

arxiv:1806.06908 v3 · 2018-06-18 · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37BP6JOEXC2KZMSXOY4HBEIWCB}

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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	2026-05-17T23:49:17.547843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dfc2ff25c4b8b4acb25776387091161078e6544496f93d34b2db2c6a2c5195ce

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.06908 · arxiv_version: 1806.06908v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06908 · pith_short_12: 37BP6JOEXC2K · pith_short_16: 37BP6JOEXC2KZMSX · pith_short_8: 37BP6JOE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/37BP6JOEXC2KZMSXOY4HBEIWCB \
  | 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: dfc2ff25c4b8b4acb25776387091161078e6544496f93d34b2db2c6a2c5195ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "19a05bd321a300e7f9f6877531827b4ac94529887724a2e9a73138a7df6a4ad4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-18T20:06:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b1902bd3a044d3048fdd88538fd7e036430550f6f2f3af4db3c5f4c860ac1131"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.06908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}