Pith Number

pith:CWQTI5QU

pith:2025:CWQTI5QUE2OZCKFME3YRYK4GEB

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Generate-then-Verify: Reconstructing Data from Limited Published Statistics

Adam Smith, Eileen Xiao, Pratiksha Thaker, Terrance Liu, Zhiwei Steven Wu

arxiv:2504.21199 v2 · 2025-04-29 · stat.ML · cs.CR · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CWQTI5QUE2OZCKFME3YRYK4GEB}

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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	2026-07-05T11:19:52.485181Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

15a1347614269d9128ac26f11c2b86205abfa6565d3bed9466cbe72681f9a2c6

Aliases

arxiv: 2504.21199 · arxiv_version: 2504.21199v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.21199 · pith_short_12: CWQTI5QUE2OZ · pith_short_16: CWQTI5QUE2OZCKFM · pith_short_8: CWQTI5QU

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/CWQTI5QUE2OZCKFME3YRYK4GEB \
  | 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: 15a1347614269d9128ac26f11c2b86205abfa6565d3bed9466cbe72681f9a2c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c0b9cbdaacfe3d4c1f2c135cc4346783526f42d58a2ba2bd0b6beb748eaaf4a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2025-04-29T22:06:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a80044ce37b7555784a30e7f787e558eb56784e391c5c3948f706723329e9153"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2504.21199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}