Pith Number

pith:3VJN4Z5U

pith:2016:3VJN4Z5UBMXYUSYOZJT2PICIRG

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Robust and Efficient Estimation for a Discrete Distribution Using L2 Optimization

Jiwoong Kim

arxiv:1606.04182 v2 · 2016-06-14 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3VJN4Z5UBMXYUSYOZJT2PICIRG}

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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	2026-05-18T02:44:40.075176Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd52de67b40b2f8a4b0eca67a7a048899c476e959da289ebc6eb21b2b38a41f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.04182 · arxiv_version: 1606.04182v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.04182 · pith_short_12: 3VJN4Z5UBMXY · pith_short_16: 3VJN4Z5UBMXYUSYO · pith_short_8: 3VJN4Z5U

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/3VJN4Z5UBMXYUSYOZJT2PICIRG \
  | 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: dd52de67b40b2f8a4b0eca67a7a048899c476e959da289ebc6eb21b2b38a41f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f9f2566550915755b385b01ea967e50eb5a4ea20f60c09f1b007cb2b76bd3fb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-14T00:50:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e163a9b6698a0c2558a3df43f3b84e0acb116a84463022ef4413207e4a8fd27"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.04182",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}