Pith Number

pith:BJ2FUYYI

pith:2023:BJ2FUYYIOMU4ZFAZYDHM5HFXS4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Alignment between Initial State and Mixer Improves QAOA Performance for Constrained Optimization

Changhao Li, Dylan Herman, Marco Pistoia, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Yue Sun, Zichang He

arxiv:2305.03857 v3 · 2023-05-05 · quant-ph · cs.ET

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BJ2FUYYIOMU4ZFAZYDHM5HFXS4}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T07:39:27.332449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a745a63087329cc9419c0cece9cb7971d481363d58081b29f47d1684d4292c3

Aliases

arxiv: 2305.03857 · arxiv_version: 2305.03857v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2305.03857 · pith_short_12: BJ2FUYYIOMU4 · pith_short_16: BJ2FUYYIOMU4ZFAZ · pith_short_8: BJ2FUYYI

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/BJ2FUYYIOMU4ZFAZYDHM5HFXS4 \
  | 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: 0a745a63087329cc9419c0cece9cb7971d481363d58081b29f47d1684d4292c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "47f2a1ed29cc9427994c02ecd4b944e183a164d02225f0d92fabd7971b8007f1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.ET"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2023-05-05T21:54:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e0f356da913cdcf07bc4bf2a17353f0726fdafacc552c94cd9783cb68b543d3f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2305.03857",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}