Pith Number

pith:A3FDM3PA

pith:2014:A3FDM3PA2DHKN6BAUEOMLIIHIG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Likelihood Encoder for Lossy Source Compression

Eva C. Song, H. Vincent Poor, Paul Cuff

arxiv:1404.5683 v1 · 2014-04-23 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A3FDM3PA2DHKN6BAUEOMLIIHIG}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T02:53:28.179461Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

06ca366de0d0cea6f820a11cc5a10741a575f98c8f1d89285ef45254ac9d5d39

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.5683 · arxiv_version: 1404.5683v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.5683 · pith_short_12: A3FDM3PA2DHK · pith_short_16: A3FDM3PA2DHKN6BA · pith_short_8: A3FDM3PA

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/A3FDM3PA2DHKN6BAUEOMLIIHIG \
  | 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: 06ca366de0d0cea6f820a11cc5a10741a575f98c8f1d89285ef45254ac9d5d39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "81575bbcc92fbaba019b5c70b4afc8521d3c896bc5125e4851be95d4c53894f4",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-23T02:10:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bfe24798a329d4f4c3cb8f6885a53373421aec9c6d8411e23ffbf179c3fd501"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.5683",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}