Pith Number

pith:BQVT7BAZ

pith:2014:BQVT7BAZ6NC2UJGREPBTQR6EDK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Beyond Maximum Likelihood: from Theory to Practice

Jiantao Jiao, Kartik Venkat, Tsachy Weissman, Yanjun Han

arxiv:1409.7458 v1 · 2014-09-26 · stat.ME · cs.DS · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BQVT7BAZ6NC2UJGREPBTQR6EDK}

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:52.644071Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c2b3f8419f345aa24d123c33847c41a864c47710645f9b63d57872746c0c223

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.7458 · arxiv_version: 1409.7458v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.7458 · pith_short_12: BQVT7BAZ6NC2 · pith_short_16: BQVT7BAZ6NC2UJGR · pith_short_8: BQVT7BAZ

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/BQVT7BAZ6NC2UJGREPBTQR6EDK \
  | 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: 0c2b3f8419f345aa24d123c33847c41a864c47710645f9b63d57872746c0c223

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e6a13cc497ca083714acc0b87191d47c7ad3812caabec07616889ea21e391fc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-26T01:45:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "50b36c5e7e6da85764b1eb043d92d70575fbe8b1b402af826e83c69bfe709189"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.7458",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}