Pith Number

pith:C3L5T4GZ

pith:2014:C3L5T4GZTG3ZMJF6QSUB7VGH4C

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An optimization algorithm inspired by the States of Matter that improves the balance between exploration and exploitation

Alonso Echavarria, Erik Cuevas, Marte A. Ramirez-Ortegon

arxiv:1405.5066 v1 · 2014-05-20 · cs.AI

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\pithnumber{C3L5T4GZTG3ZMJF6QSUB7VGH4C}

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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	2026-05-18T02:51:32.192828Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

16d7d9f0d999b79624be84a81fd4c7e0a10486dc614b04a2f2b34955c526e6d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1405.5066 · arxiv_version: 1405.5066v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1405.5066 · pith_short_12: C3L5T4GZTG3Z · pith_short_16: C3L5T4GZTG3ZMJF6 · pith_short_8: C3L5T4GZ

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/C3L5T4GZTG3ZMJF6QSUB7VGH4C \
  | 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: 16d7d9f0d999b79624be84a81fd4c7e0a10486dc614b04a2f2b34955c526e6d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a331a6c29c81085024ec99f934a69280267fcef23e9ee17bcb8a42833168ec5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2014-05-20T13:03:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "066540b4ce3484e4a65054b42658d3c081a2ebeb7701ecb74c80ca5e0e57ce9f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1405.5066",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}