Pith Number

pith:3URK6L5N

pith:2024:3URK6L5NGFICDNMTSYOECPOXU7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Covariance estimation using Markov chain Monte Carlo

Matthew S. Zhang, Yunbum Kook

arxiv:2410.17147 v1 · 2024-10-22 · math.ST · cs.DS · cs.LG · stat.ML · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3URK6L5NGFICDNMTSYOECPOXU7}

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4 Citations open

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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	2026-07-05T09:24:12.566199Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd22af2fad315021b593961c413dd7a7ca7d1e42197654d21a7e692d9400ae8f

Aliases

arxiv: 2410.17147 · arxiv_version: 2410.17147v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.17147 · pith_short_12: 3URK6L5NGFIC · pith_short_16: 3URK6L5NGFICDNMT · pith_short_8: 3URK6L5N

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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/3URK6L5NGFICDNMTSYOECPOXU7 \
  | 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: dd22af2fad315021b593961c413dd7a7ca7d1e42197654d21a7e692d9400ae8f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "aa91f6cfcfb7408fff87ca046016e45b95c7ad206666cf253c6845040f40f502",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2024-10-22T16:27:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "15c844eafb9acb8794ee3fea8e2acff2abc50b00143d2fce3174a8a98e7db8fb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2410.17147",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}