Pith Number

pith:EJ6TIGI5

pith:2017:EJ6TIGI5VFP2VI4PAA3LXL4S57

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Sampling strategies for fast updating of Gaussian Markov random fields

Christopher S. McMahan, D. Andrew Brown, Stella Watson Self

arxiv:1702.05518 v3 · 2017-02-17 · stat.CO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EJ6TIGI5VFP2VI4PAA3LXL4S57}

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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	2026-05-17T23:48:41.015815Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

227d34191da95faaa38f0036bbaf92efc28ba1c8d5a96f4664a2cef2a8f9f892

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05518 · arxiv_version: 1702.05518v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05518 · pith_short_12: EJ6TIGI5VFP2 · pith_short_16: EJ6TIGI5VFP2VI4P · pith_short_8: EJ6TIGI5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EJ6TIGI5VFP2VI4PAA3LXL4S57 \
  | 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: 227d34191da95faaa38f0036bbaf92efc28ba1c8d5a96f4664a2cef2a8f9f892

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49281450a2f99e5edcf61380c166d755a52307d0b24bacc9c78a0bc907e6c64e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-17T21:16:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7c6368562487e3cd8aa99ed8e2a291b9853a01609a219229402825e08a6f4204"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}