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pith:FAHXR3RD

pith:2017:FAHXR3RDYXJQFOUWPP2JEQI6GR

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Two provably consistent divide and conquer clustering algorithms for large networks

Peter J. Bickel, Purnamrita Sarkar, Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee

arxiv:1708.05573 v1 · 2017-08-18 · stat.ML · math.ST · stat.CO · stat.ME · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:37:49.655449Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

280f78ee23c5d302ba967bf492411e346772e9c9a9e22f1d0c5e06341c7f6347

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.05573 · arxiv_version: 1708.05573v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.05573 · pith_short_12: FAHXR3RDYXJQ · pith_short_16: FAHXR3RDYXJQFOUW · pith_short_8: FAHXR3RD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FAHXR3RDYXJQFOUWPP2JEQI6GR \
  | 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: 280f78ee23c5d302ba967bf492411e346772e9c9a9e22f1d0c5e06341c7f6347

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-18T12:09:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1961d602321d270032e0fd7a5eb348e4581273b7b8d6ecbfd0b39dc499cb8bf2"
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  }
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