Pith Number

pith:IXWTJ5PV

pith:2012:IXWTJ5PVA4NTFJBYP47CWLB76Z

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The Sample Complexity of Search over Multiple Populations

Gongguo Tang, Matthew L. Malloy, Robert D. Nowak

arxiv:1209.1380 v2 · 2012-09-06 · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IXWTJ5PVA4NTFJBYP47CWLB76Z}

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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	2026-05-18T00:58:18.113380Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

45ed34f5f5071b32a4387f3e2b2c3ff660ccb7e4ea3141074379eeeca600aede

Aliases

arxiv: 1209.1380 · arxiv_version: 1209.1380v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1209.1380 · pith_short_12: IXWTJ5PVA4NT · pith_short_16: IXWTJ5PVA4NTFJBY · pith_short_8: IXWTJ5PV

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/IXWTJ5PVA4NTFJBYP47CWLB76Z \
  | 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: 45ed34f5f5071b32a4387f3e2b2c3ff660ccb7e4ea3141074379eeeca600aede

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b47dbb2e98796cd309dcc61f921353fdc91e44861114d361b23db233604971eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2012-09-06T19:38:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f33db94c7bad118a5c2f43ef77f30ff2f89d4fc15faf077b624b39f49e6c19ca"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1209.1380",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}