Pith Number

pith:I2ZPE3HP

pith:2015:I2ZPE3HP4UMJDWOMSSX6S4IC36

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Local, Private, Efficient Protocols for Succinct Histograms

Adam Smith, Raef Bassily

arxiv:1504.04686 v1 · 2015-04-18 · cs.CR · cs.DS · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{I2ZPE3HP4UMJDWOMSSX6S4IC36}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-05-18T02:18:30.704147Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

46b2f26cefe51891d9cc94afe97102df8adbf24e58e5eb848204e9afda29562d

Aliases

arxiv: 1504.04686 · arxiv_version: 1504.04686v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1504.04686 · pith_short_12: I2ZPE3HP4UMJ · pith_short_16: I2ZPE3HP4UMJDWOM · pith_short_8: I2ZPE3HP

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/I2ZPE3HP4UMJDWOMSSX6S4IC36 \
  | 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: 46b2f26cefe51891d9cc94afe97102df8adbf24e58e5eb848204e9afda29562d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0684be0e32927604a4f8fb4a9a0e83bf3d360d505cf343411099de73c4e51f61",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2015-04-18T06:23:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5dc055aed05f8c72115c6d970e47dff85d950eaeae4ee1ad8df9f7828b840fde"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1504.04686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}