Pith Number

pith:IK4QGLH6

pith:2026:IK4QGLH6Q5K7AZMLZSYIDOSRYF

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Prediction Under Imperfect Compression: A Theory of Approximate MDL

Guangxu Yang, Qian Li, Shang-Hua Teng, Xinyu Mao

arxiv:2606.04834 v1 · 2026-06-03 · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IK4QGLH6Q5K7AZMLZSYIDOSRYF}

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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	2026-06-04T01:09:31.633023Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

42b9032cfe8755f0658bccb081ba51c159782e5fcda94a7cb64d37a7415d0e65

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.04834 · arxiv_version: 2606.04834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.04834 · pith_short_12: IK4QGLH6Q5K7 · pith_short_16: IK4QGLH6Q5K7AZML · pith_short_8: IK4QGLH6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IK4QGLH6Q5K7AZMLZSYIDOSRYF \
  | 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: 42b9032cfe8755f0658bccb081ba51c159782e5fcda94a7cb64d37a7415d0e65

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "581184addb465e5290e7a066164a54c1e505d0b38f141b1423d321f2ebe2797a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-03T13:03:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "17dbfe65ddb374dffe1a23a14ecbc96f25133d4d9098d3e39d9744e3941644df"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.04834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}