Pith Number

pith:FDMUWCSA

pith:2017:FDMUWCSAC4TAVMN4WWFOMVSB2P

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimization assisted MCMC

Aijun An, Ricky Fok, Xiaogang Wang

arxiv:1709.02888 v1 · 2017-09-09 · stat.CO · cs.LG

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:35:40.215015Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

28d94b0a4017260ab1bcb58ae65641d3c41f7dc8d0092e72ea8ecc66c515f207

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.02888 · arxiv_version: 1709.02888v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.02888 · pith_short_12: FDMUWCSAC4TA · pith_short_16: FDMUWCSAC4TAVMN4 · pith_short_8: FDMUWCSA

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/FDMUWCSAC4TAVMN4WWFOMVSB2P \
  | 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: 28d94b0a4017260ab1bcb58ae65641d3c41f7dc8d0092e72ea8ecc66c515f207

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f5e08ed4cdaf51b1c64eaa46a0b8570e230eaf638c23f8de40bfe8c43f9b0ca",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-09T01:03:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d51e62fc06487cf1aefb2a79e0ff59aa5be33c018d308576c78c40f345a3066b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.02888",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}