Pith Number

pith:AZQ763KF

pith:2016:AZQ763KFOBY7B3M4GEX2XE22ZT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Making Contextual Decisions with Low Technical Debt

Alekh Agarwal, Alex Slivkins, Dan Melamed, Gal Oshri, Jiaji Li, John Langford, Luong Hoang, Markus Cozowicz, Oswaldo Ribas, Sarah Bird, Siddhartha Sen, Stephen Lee

arxiv:1606.03966 v2 · 2016-06-13 · cs.LG · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AZQ763KFOBY7B3M4GEX2XE22ZT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:44:52.460045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0661ff6d457071f0ed9c312fab935accf767da69d25ea6668f7c46deba30ef85

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.03966 · arxiv_version: 1606.03966v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.03966 · pith_short_12: AZQ763KFOBY7 · pith_short_16: AZQ763KFOBY7B3M4 · pith_short_8: AZQ763KF

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/AZQ763KFOBY7B3M4GEX2XE22ZT \
  | 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: 0661ff6d457071f0ed9c312fab935accf767da69d25ea6668f7c46deba30ef85

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "92cdf5e4e988626297296e18ace86f96cf87a9ebbf2ca6d1f346e63321a0b741",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-13T14:17:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fabd5ab5fc12a235fabc5d363bf77b86928e38536bdbe72d5657ee593884e6fa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.03966",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}