Pith Number

pith:4Y3L5GCP

pith:2024:4Y3L5GCPIV3NUVTGCWHUCBIIPQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Random Cycle Coding: Lossless Compression of Cluster Assignments via Bits-Back Coding

Alireza Makhzani, Ashish Khisti, Daniel Severo

arxiv:2412.00369 v1 · 2024-11-30 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4Y3L5GCPIV3NUVTGCWHUCBIIPQ}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-07-05T09:42:40.177577Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e636be984f4576da5666158f4105087c106653706d0843e2fe882f947e78f929

Aliases

arxiv: 2412.00369 · arxiv_version: 2412.00369v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.00369 · pith_short_12: 4Y3L5GCPIV3N · pith_short_16: 4Y3L5GCPIV3NUVTG · pith_short_8: 4Y3L5GCP

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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/4Y3L5GCPIV3NUVTGCWHUCBIIPQ \
  | 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: e636be984f4576da5666158f4105087c106653706d0843e2fe882f947e78f929

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8acf9dfd009e8077ba036d20bcca842881434e8e923063c457d73c84012b4747",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-30T06:24:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e6599353fd475f09b861ccc9b358c35afe149d4c70d4e81aaeee6a5c65829c9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2412.00369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}