Pith Number

pith:37YNK7RV

pith:2012:37YNK7RVEWGKCGQEUVV2TEBOAR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Simple Insight into Iterative Belief Propagation's Success

Rina Dechter, Robert Mateescu

arxiv:1212.2463 v1 · 2012-10-19 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{37YNK7RVEWGKCGQEUVV2TEBOAR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T03:38:44.803805Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dff0d57e35258ca11a04a56ba9902e0457c54e0c4564a48c83043953e4afded1

Aliases

arxiv: 1212.2463 · arxiv_version: 1212.2463v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1212.2463 · pith_short_12: 37YNK7RVEWGK · pith_short_16: 37YNK7RVEWGKCGQE · pith_short_8: 37YNK7RV

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/37YNK7RVEWGKCGQEUVV2TEBOAR \
  | 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: dff0d57e35258ca11a04a56ba9902e0457c54e0c4564a48c83043953e4afded1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c7d4c3c12f121259c7074604a8bbbef575c0bf290a8b91e1880c71f8966617e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-19T15:04:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f33ffb1b574ee9f280679fcd249b4dbc26dbe66070241e5ed3213e2993340875"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1212.2463",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}