Pith Number

pith:BAYTFIME

pith:2017:BAYTFIMEJNBRK7LVLO3PZ4MVFS

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How Algorithmic Confounding in Recommendation Systems Increases Homogeneity and Decreases Utility

Allison J.B. Chaney, Barbara E. Engelhardt, Brandon M. Stewart

arxiv:1710.11214 v2 · 2017-10-30 · cs.CY · cs.LG · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BAYTFIMEJNBRK7LVLO3PZ4MVFS}

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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	2026-05-17T23:59:53.571655Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

083132a1844b43157d755bb6fcf1952cad52edb5d608d49ce341d3178e8ee957

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.11214 · arxiv_version: 1710.11214v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.11214 · pith_short_12: BAYTFIMEJNBR · pith_short_16: BAYTFIMEJNBRK7LV · pith_short_8: BAYTFIME

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BAYTFIMEJNBRK7LVLO3PZ4MVFS \
  | 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: 083132a1844b43157d755bb6fcf1952cad52edb5d608d49ce341d3178e8ee957

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cc8a9dd951ba26a6f4a0474e21012c56b9a257d9149406aecf02a4828f4c3929",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-30T19:42:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b85c20e40d743bb46a5974536d9c4ba7f3869384036b27b9b8b635a40c451d62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.11214",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}