Pith Number

pith:B6IMQXVV

pith:2017:B6IMQXVVD2ADYZYGDEIPTRTBD3

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Achieving the time of $1$-NN, but the accuracy of $k$-NN

Lirong Xue, Samory Kpotufe

arxiv:1712.02369 v2 · 2017-12-06 · math.ST · stat.ML · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6IMQXVVD2ADYZYGDEIPTRTBD3}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:24.402334Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f90c85eb51e803c67061910f9c6611ee78f3e8f6728b80ae852a8da7481ddc7

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.02369 · arxiv_version: 1712.02369v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.02369 · pith_short_12: B6IMQXVVD2AD · pith_short_16: B6IMQXVVD2ADYZYG · pith_short_8: B6IMQXVV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/B6IMQXVVD2ADYZYGDEIPTRTBD3 \
  | 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: 0f90c85eb51e803c67061910f9c6611ee78f3e8f6728b80ae852a8da7481ddc7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f3c53ae23fcddeffe9eadbaa54582b03f03fb719dbfaf91e3573eaf28c82b8fd",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-06T19:02:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "653f5867f989815ca2645ff3ba23c6614c6621499a13f30c326d480e742719d8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.02369",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}