Pith Number

pith:62PZUHJJ

pith:2026:62PZUHJJTRJO2OP36PM6ANEYQM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Smooth Partial Lotteries for Stable Randomized Selection

Alexander Goldberg, Giulia Fanti, Nihar B. Shah

arxiv:2605.20069 v1 · 2026-05-19 · cs.LG · cs.GT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{62PZUHJJTRJO2OP36PM6ANEYQM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-20T02:06:00.915338Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f69f9a1d299c52ed39fbf3d9e0349883327b7a0e5e34edbb304785ed51620515

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20069 · arxiv_version: 2605.20069v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20069 · pith_short_12: 62PZUHJJTRJO · pith_short_16: 62PZUHJJTRJO2OP3 · pith_short_8: 62PZUHJJ

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/62PZUHJJTRJO2OP36PM6ANEYQM \
  | 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: f69f9a1d299c52ed39fbf3d9e0349883327b7a0e5e34edbb304785ed51620515

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1cb5bbfca31e9704e8ba8dcbac80cd86715e1424f43fabaaa9aa9c05fd750ea9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.GT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-19T16:22:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "168ed21b2ab405f573727f0794936777d02bfc5721ddcee787683ab72dec8374"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}