Pith Number

pith:AQ6Y2T4E

pith:2014:AQ6Y2T4EC4IMWHVWVT4ZI6C52Y

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

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Alvin Chua, Guillaume Desjardins, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Marcus Hutter

arxiv:1411.5326 v1 · 2014-11-19 · cs.AI · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AQ6Y2T4EC4IMWHVWVT4ZI6C52Y}

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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	2026-05-18T02:34:39.229922Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

043d8d4f841710cb1eb6acf994785dd619c47bff03f115afeaceb30ecb55bebb

Aliases

arxiv: 1411.5326 · arxiv_version: 1411.5326v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1411.5326 · pith_short_12: AQ6Y2T4EC4IM · pith_short_16: AQ6Y2T4EC4IMWHVW · pith_short_8: AQ6Y2T4E

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/AQ6Y2T4EC4IMWHVWVT4ZI6C52Y \
  | 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: 043d8d4f841710cb1eb6acf994785dd619c47bff03f115afeaceb30ecb55bebb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "335c63856bacecd1348e042c292a0d2ce99bc52fd4cf8e92ee90fed54b7a80f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-11-19T19:32:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8c374aab4b8e9b16e379af11c662fb4865f073c508293589cc2cda4a95da3588"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1411.5326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}