Pith Number

pith:7HKXI3I3

pith:2016:7HKXI3I35NATKGTGKIAWTIC3OS

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Iterative Scaling Algorithm for Channels

Nihat Ay, Paolo Perrone

arxiv:1603.07181 v2 · 2016-03-23 · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7HKXI3I35NATKGTGKIAWTIC3OS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:27.880388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f9d5746d1beb41351a66520169a05b749d69d20fb2fb009c4157c96ccce63984

Aliases

arxiv: 1603.07181 · arxiv_version: 1603.07181v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.07181 · pith_short_12: 7HKXI3I35NAT · pith_short_16: 7HKXI3I35NATKGTG · pith_short_8: 7HKXI3I3

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/7HKXI3I35NATKGTGKIAWTIC3OS \
  | 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: f9d5746d1beb41351a66520169a05b749d69d20fb2fb009c4157c96ccce63984

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2c18623eb13cbc398b48adee469d4247c2fd56c7842ebf464d07b1b4777c2bfa",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "stat.CO"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2016-03-23T13:48:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "89b4f274becd1e92012b4b0990b72894c4434747a8def4234fe22354e8c33cc0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1603.07181",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}