Pith Number

pith:DUKDA3XT

pith:2017:DUKDA3XTXYRSDTG456KS3MPLPK

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Optimality of Approximate Inference Algorithms on Stable Instances

Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, David Sontag, Hunter Lang

arxiv:1711.02195 v2 · 2017-11-06 · stat.ML · cs.AI · cs.DS · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DUKDA3XTXYRSDTG456KS3MPLPK}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:17:54.206211Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d14306ef3be2321ccdcef952db1eb7a8960f0d02349db661d83f45d8fbe335b

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.02195 · arxiv_version: 1711.02195v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.02195 · pith_short_12: DUKDA3XTXYRS · pith_short_16: DUKDA3XTXYRSDTG4 · pith_short_8: DUKDA3XT

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DUKDA3XTXYRSDTG456KS3MPLPK \
  | 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: 1d14306ef3be2321ccdcef952db1eb7a8960f0d02349db661d83f45d8fbe335b

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbbac847a61664cb8c2200335e2607e544b0ae83e944d22815eedd674463cd23",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-06T22:14:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5ff43ee1d5910781e2dd7201ab01b0d5a8e50bf5c391983b4352a0fda00bedc7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}