Pith Number

pith:C7R4NQDB

pith:2017:C7R4NQDBEWMHMRGQGS3XYY34XN

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Weighted Message Passing and Minimum Energy Flow for Heterogeneous Stochastic Block Models with Side Information

Alexander Rakhlin, Tengyuan Liang, T. Tony Cai

arxiv:1709.03907 v1 · 2017-09-12 · math.ST · stat.ML · stat.TH

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\pithnumber{C7R4NQDBEWMHMRGQGS3XYY34XN}

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First computed	2026-07-05T01:21:44.486460Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

17e3c6c06125987644d034b77c637cbb59b1942089f97b437abbe915b8a11044

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03907 · arxiv_version: 1709.03907v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03907 · pith_short_12: C7R4NQDBEWMH · pith_short_16: C7R4NQDBEWMHMRGQ · pith_short_8: C7R4NQDB

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/C7R4NQDBEWMHMRGQGS3XYY34XN \
  | 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: 17e3c6c06125987644d034b77c637cbb59b1942089f97b437abbe915b8a11044

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7792b0d77a96f43346cacfc9b94289a0a46be6c13bc7a4d2e0d1f9147d02b34a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ML",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-12T15:22:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "99de8e00ba9f9406c13be78e73055efeee201e93232259e720a6f5f556430a8b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03907",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}