Pith Number

pith:B46KDPGW

pith:2018:B46KDPGWPYPZFJ7XGEGIXQTY67

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Theory of Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms

Carsten Witt, Martin S. Krejca

arxiv:1806.05392 v1 · 2018-06-14 · cs.NE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B46KDPGWPYPZFJ7XGEGIXQTY67}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:13:16.106592Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f3ca1bcd67e1f92a7f7310c8bc278f7d4d798eb492d73173a89041f441c71c9

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.05392 · arxiv_version: 1806.05392v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.05392 · pith_short_12: B46KDPGWPYPZ · pith_short_16: B46KDPGWPYPZFJ7X · pith_short_8: B46KDPGW

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B46KDPGWPYPZFJ7XGEGIXQTY67 \
  | 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: 0f3ca1bcd67e1f92a7f7310c8bc278f7d4d798eb492d73173a89041f441c71c9

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7c2b17713542934546e1f6d3cd5505d1300db3a7d325325ecb4c559d2301f160",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-14T06:54:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "76316b1c5cdd21bcf4546f2aa1618697317f429e7067a98feed17528d4422aed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.05392",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}