Pith Number

pith:766WFO6D

pith:2015:766WFO6DC5EMAW57KWMRHEJE2Y

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Are Slepian-Wolf Rates Necessary for Distributed Parameter Estimation?

Lifeng Lai, Mostafa El Gamal

arxiv:1508.02765 v2 · 2015-08-11 · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\pithnumber{766WFO6DC5EMAW57KWMRHEJE2Y}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:27:22.884727Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ffbd62bbc31748c05bbf5599139124d6319c1f7b91755a8fcb90edb90f0aed95

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.02765 · arxiv_version: 1508.02765v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.02765 · pith_short_12: 766WFO6DC5EM · pith_short_16: 766WFO6DC5EMAW57 · pith_short_8: 766WFO6D

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/766WFO6DC5EMAW57KWMRHEJE2Y \
  | 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: ffbd62bbc31748c05bbf5599139124d6319c1f7b91755a8fcb90edb90f0aed95

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-11T22:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9f5f7e32208dbd49914cc6fd12f20ca13f9b9c4b72db8635e374674f16054c1"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}