Pith Number

pith:DWMXXMA5

pith:2012:DWMXXMA5BM7RIX2QLKNBPUUUID

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Distance Majorization and Its Applications

Eric C. Chi, Hua Zhou, Kenneth Lange

arxiv:1211.3907 v5 · 2012-11-16 · math.OC · stat.CO · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DWMXXMA5BM7RIX2QLKNBPUUUID}

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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	2026-05-18T02:45:56.069690Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d997bb01d0b3f145f505a9a17d29440e6fb1cd25674a35288f9b694d14fb19c

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.3907 · arxiv_version: 1211.3907v5 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.3907 · pith_short_12: DWMXXMA5BM7R · pith_short_16: DWMXXMA5BM7RIX2Q · pith_short_8: DWMXXMA5

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/DWMXXMA5BM7RIX2QLKNBPUUUID \
  | 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: 1d997bb01d0b3f145f505a9a17d29440e6fb1cd25674a35288f9b694d14fb19c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "add795e0cd34f132e72b3d5a0460f92d99e9992dae4332701566869a672d708c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2012-11-16T14:47:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51daacefa572067cbd47b5c7a2b71e0925d59d57dd1e4ee8ec9dc97261045b5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.3907",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 5
  }
}