Pith Number

pith:4YI2Z7JW

pith:2018:4YI2Z7JWT7HUFKPRN25YHYSJN7

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Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship

Jacob Steinhardt, Zachary C. Lipton

arxiv:1807.03341 v2 · 2018-07-09 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.LG

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\pithnumber{4YI2Z7JWT7HUFKPRN25YHYSJN7}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:09:46.804302Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e611acfd369fcf42a9f16ebb83e2496fd5fb0b595922f7fe4163f47862f861ec

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.03341 · arxiv_version: 1807.03341v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.03341 · pith_short_12: 4YI2Z7JWT7HU · pith_short_16: 4YI2Z7JWT7HUFKPR · pith_short_8: 4YI2Z7JW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4YI2Z7JWT7HUFKPRN25YHYSJN7 \
  | 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: e611acfd369fcf42a9f16ebb83e2496fd5fb0b595922f7fe4163f47862f861ec

Canonical record JSON

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  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb8853c38f5cb2505a019801e885345c6a253a681f00e06d88d11c8c59a051ef",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-09T18:59:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "746e8465e527a0452f172b262a3ab00f5da7b440926c59a75435bacd736626ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.03341",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}