Pith Number

pith:DYVSR5ME

pith:2021:DYVSR5MEBZIQMKSUJHAYDMVUGA

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Estimating and Maximizing Mutual Information for Knowledge Distillation

Aman Shrivastava, Vicente Ordonez, Yanjun Qi

arxiv:2110.15946 v3 · 2021-10-29 · cs.CV · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DYVSR5MEBZIQMKSUJHAYDMVUGA}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T06:09:03.644107Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1e2b28f5840e51062a5449c181b2b43034320c37eb76f229b2b7049434dccfd6

Aliases

arxiv: 2110.15946 · arxiv_version: 2110.15946v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2110.15946 · pith_short_12: DYVSR5MEBZIQ · pith_short_16: DYVSR5MEBZIQMKSU · pith_short_8: DYVSR5ME

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/DYVSR5MEBZIQMKSUJHAYDMVUGA \
  | 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: 1e2b28f5840e51062a5449c181b2b43034320c37eb76f229b2b7049434dccfd6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d424e711c5c1f1738e89b1b36bf6a4e9c157348f88343abf252d7c05c862679f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2021-10-29T17:49:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db8b6e500ff8354536317bfb00319d2a060c6c9211bd5ecf43a6d78c2d8b46bb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2110.15946",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}