Pith Number

pith:C5SKCGFB

pith:2025:C5SKCGFBGCYI73KIJCV7JL4PGO

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Intuitive dissection of the Gaussian information bottleneck method with an application to optimal prediction

Age Tjalma, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Vahe Galstyan

arxiv:2507.05183 v1 · 2025-07-07 · q-bio.MN · cond-mat.stat-mech · cs.IT · math.IT · physics.bio-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{C5SKCGFBGCYI73KIJCV7JL4PGO}

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:33:10.344457Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1764a118a130b08fed4848abf4af8f33aec3bb4d5942b7f0c0a45b47e43af3f2

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.05183 · arxiv_version: 2507.05183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.05183 · pith_short_12: C5SKCGFBGCYI · pith_short_16: C5SKCGFBGCYI73KI · pith_short_8: C5SKCGFB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C5SKCGFBGCYI73KIJCV7JL4PGO \
  | 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: 1764a118a130b08fed4848abf4af8f33aec3bb4d5942b7f0c0a45b47e43af3f2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "64b73aae91fafbb704dcecd68adb6066d6e394c63d4bb6d8376a99c1ac845792",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cond-mat.stat-mech",
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "physics.bio-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.MN",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-07T16:37:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "fe162e971349398d6d52acd89b2df9557b7e797039fe5c2d93ce7170f53291ce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.05183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}