Pith Number

pith:IMQVQNAJ

pith:2018:IMQVQNAJ7GOK6W3LIXK7KIZKCS

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Mean-field approximation, convex hierarchies, and the optimality of correlation rounding: a unified perspective

Andrej Risteski, Frederic Koehler, Vishesh Jain

arxiv:1808.07226 v2 · 2018-08-22 · cs.LG · cs.DS · math.PR · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IMQVQNAJ7GOK6W3LIXK7KIZKCS}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:06:55.646486Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4321583409f99caf5b6b45d5f5232a14a9b446a60171cd55ad0104075303d428

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.07226 · arxiv_version: 1808.07226v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.07226 · pith_short_12: IMQVQNAJ7GOK · pith_short_16: IMQVQNAJ7GOK6W3L · pith_short_8: IMQVQNAJ

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/IMQVQNAJ7GOK6W3LIXK7KIZKCS \
  | 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: 4321583409f99caf5b6b45d5f5232a14a9b446a60171cd55ad0104075303d428

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "17d05d209d4ef6deea1315890244e8b1efca49c36300c1b5636381f5a4f559ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "math.PR",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-22T05:43:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7ec9a55600508b23b680da6b1a21aefdbfd20374fa98e1c8c4ad69e13dc99a9c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.07226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}