Pith Number

pith:65NB36RP

pith:2017:65NB36RPGBWCFJTT2PDNB6KAIA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A New Family of Near-metrics for Universal Similarity

Chris A. White, Chu Wang, Iraj Saniee, William S. Kennedy

arxiv:1707.06903 v3 · 2017-07-21 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{65NB36RPGBWCFJTT2PDNB6KAIA}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:32:42.000408Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f75a1dfa2f306c22a673d3c6d0f940403406011ae525571a04da062edf9f6355

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.06903 · arxiv_version: 1707.06903v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.06903 · pith_short_12: 65NB36RPGBWC · pith_short_16: 65NB36RPGBWCFJTT · pith_short_8: 65NB36RP

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/65NB36RPGBWCFJTT2PDNB6KAIA \
  | 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: f75a1dfa2f306c22a673d3c6d0f940403406011ae525571a04da062edf9f6355

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fe43877e407a30a76215b7c2e7a6130ae537361316c54b73124261c39e3e1916",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-21T14:02:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f0d523a5e9e0c404ee605516a220862793c97f0f04c4f444965cf5bef7c6801"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.06903",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}