Pith Number

pith:3MDJSM7T

pith:2015:3MDJSM7TJJSFUYXLKRORO3Y4PD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Black-Box Policy Search with Probabilistic Programs

Brooks Paige, David Tolpin, Frank Wood, Jan-Willem van de Meent

arxiv:1507.04635 v4 · 2015-07-16 · stat.ML · cs.AI

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MDJSM7TJJSFUYXLKRORO3Y4PD}

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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	2026-05-18T01:09:55.239060Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db069933f34a645a62eb545d176f1c78e0b3c3e314d9b44bcdd71c790d87475d

Aliases

arxiv: 1507.04635 · arxiv_version: 1507.04635v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1507.04635 · pith_short_12: 3MDJSM7TJJSF · pith_short_16: 3MDJSM7TJJSFUYXL · pith_short_8: 3MDJSM7T

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/3MDJSM7TJJSFUYXLKRORO3Y4PD \
  | 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: db069933f34a645a62eb545d176f1c78e0b3c3e314d9b44bcdd71c790d87475d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c819b73aed3755d590feedce981f2014f94a3dba5e1c5b20db65ce6b7006b696",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2015-07-16T16:18:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71989bb2e971d2b0707415a4d102d09648891706237ed47a7fde6e5c276b91b6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1507.04635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}