Pith Number

pith:5FXYJD7P

pith:2026:5FXYJD7PBSB6M2UUVV3BLQCD5H

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Price of metric universality in vector quantization is at most 0.11 bit

Alina Harbuzova, Or Ordentlich, Yury Polyanskiy

arxiv:2602.05790 v2 · 2026-02-05 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5FXYJD7PBSB6M2UUVV3BLQCD5H}

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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.

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2 papers in Pith

High-Rate Quantized Matrix Multiplication II

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-06-19T16:09:54.470587Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e96f848fef0c83e66a94ad7615c043e9c0ff2a839b55daa1c65f7a6d0bb754aa

Aliases

arxiv: 2602.05790 · arxiv_version: 2602.05790v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2602.05790 · pith_short_12: 5FXYJD7PBSB6 · pith_short_16: 5FXYJD7PBSB6M2UU · pith_short_8: 5FXYJD7P

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/5FXYJD7PBSB6M2UUVV3BLQCD5H \
  | 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: e96f848fef0c83e66a94ad7615c043e9c0ff2a839b55daa1c65f7a6d0bb754aa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0280c02daea35e22374b37fd64a3c88cd60e42385d5589844cb17ea2f776fd1c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-02-05T15:46:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1e9c6ea101cdd17b3b9d53416c438cdcb62a59093b3237b6fbba6a7f926fb759"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2602.05790",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}