Pith Number

pith:GAP7U3I4

pith:2017:GAP7U3I4UB72FUIIC5EGZKF53C

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Network Model Selection Using Task-Focused Minimum Description Length

Ivan Brugere, Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

arxiv:1710.05207 v2 · 2017-10-14 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GAP7U3I4UB72FUIIC5EGZKF53C}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:14.384710Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

301ffa6d1ca07fa2d10817486ca8bdd8a7a133918de340816ab99b0d1c94f527

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.05207 · arxiv_version: 1710.05207v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.05207 · pith_short_12: GAP7U3I4UB72 · pith_short_16: GAP7U3I4UB72FUII · pith_short_8: GAP7U3I4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/GAP7U3I4UB72FUIIC5EGZKF53C \
  | 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: 301ffa6d1ca07fa2d10817486ca8bdd8a7a133918de340816ab99b0d1c94f527

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbc121f5617d3b33c806fb16c6df800c30df5ad7156521ff7baa85aeb686cc53",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-14T16:27:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8538dd3c7712ef76521538f79af591dc6ea6d39d55c44b5c91d6c2c611ead92d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.05207",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}