Pith Number

pith:46CCKA72

pith:2015:46CCKA72YUUUEX3SYIRMB55K3F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Limitations of Optimization from Samples

Aviad Rubinstein, Eric Balkanski, Yaron Singer

arxiv:1512.06238 v3 · 2015-12-19 · cs.DS · cs.DM · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{46CCKA72YUUUEX3SYIRMB55K3F}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:34.391888Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e7842503fac529425f72c222c0f7aad94f3cd69ba87221689173cb2b505eb267

Aliases

arxiv: 1512.06238 · arxiv_version: 1512.06238v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1512.06238 · pith_short_12: 46CCKA72YUUU · pith_short_16: 46CCKA72YUUUEX3S · pith_short_8: 46CCKA72

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/46CCKA72YUUUEX3SYIRMB55K3F \
  | 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: e7842503fac529425f72c222c0f7aad94f3cd69ba87221689173cb2b505eb267

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0fa82f694f41dbebe092c5fe6492d58d1f071ff672e912e1033b08997e553e5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DM",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2015-12-19T12:35:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dc6eb6f0fd30665ed5dc28f3f42508932c0096680ecb25525a26b0e2bc4ae157"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1512.06238",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}