Pith Number

pith:4B3I5LTY

pith:2014:4B3I5LTYGCY63DMTVK43AKN232

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Distributed Estimation, Information Loss and Exponential Families

Alexander Ihler, Qiang Liu

arxiv:1410.2653 v1 · 2014-10-09 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4B3I5LTYGCY63DMTVK43AKN232}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T02:40:37.668393Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0768eae7830b1ed8d93aab9b029badea8baa4a230b2111c2c34898f142a5bda

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.2653 · arxiv_version: 1410.2653v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.2653 · pith_short_12: 4B3I5LTYGCY6 · pith_short_16: 4B3I5LTYGCY63DMT · pith_short_8: 4B3I5LTY

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/4B3I5LTYGCY63DMTVK43AKN232 \
  | 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: e0768eae7830b1ed8d93aab9b029badea8baa4a230b2111c2c34898f142a5bda

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2ae1483f4469345ea76ef4c833e5f657845182b2d175796c0ac14d885248bb59",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-09T23:24:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "317d681cf77c65351cae05a45f2a6cf8b77e51d07e58701cf6ae7e4da129e856"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.2653",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}