Pith Number

pith:J6TXZ4JD

pith:2026:J6TXZ4JDPDXJGAN4ZQKHZPFB7B

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SoftBinary Coding: A New Information-Theoretic Neural Compression Paradigm

Aaron B. Wagner, Elza Erkip, Ezgi Ozyilkan, Jona Ball\'e, Sharang M. Sriramu

arxiv:2606.29578 v1 · 2026-06-28 · cs.IT · eess.SP · math.IT

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First computed	2026-06-30T01:18:12.880856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fa77cf12378ee9301bccc147cbca1f85ba6262fc6eeeb269f6432ad7d1c22dd

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.29578 · arxiv_version: 2606.29578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.29578 · pith_short_12: J6TXZ4JDPDXJ · pith_short_16: J6TXZ4JDPDXJGAN4 · pith_short_8: J6TXZ4JD

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6TXZ4JDPDXJGAN4ZQKHZPFB7B \
  | 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: 4fa77cf12378ee9301bccc147cbca1f85ba6262fc6eeeb269f6432ad7d1c22dd

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5ae28f1e1cd6c352865d5104b081339d94c92a6dab84ddace723b26cbbbb7356",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "eess.SP",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-28T19:46:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "74fd4307693b33ebb7618e658ced587be2263f084e02681085fd1b220b8eb513"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.29578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}