Pith Number

pith:FEJNAYZJ

pith:2017:FEJNAYZJC2RHJ337445OSGQBKR

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A Generalization of Blahut-Arimoto Algorithm to Compute Rate-Distortion Regions of Multiterminal Source Coding Under Logarithmic Loss

Abdellatif Zaidi, Inaki Estella Aguerri, Yigit Ugur

arxiv:1708.07309 v1 · 2017-08-24 · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:36:46.611693Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2912d0632916a274ef7fe73ae91a015465fa5a6cc192faf389b12dc2c2e4f388

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.07309 · arxiv_version: 1708.07309v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.07309 · pith_short_12: FEJNAYZJC2RH · pith_short_16: FEJNAYZJC2RHJ337 · pith_short_8: FEJNAYZJ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FEJNAYZJC2RHJ337445OSGQBKR \
  | 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: 2912d0632916a274ef7fe73ae91a015465fa5a6cc192faf389b12dc2c2e4f388

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-24T08:24:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "29a9f1fff71735c8967fb25d0fcb887306170de6ac6983328f0ad6286409b980"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
}