Pith Number

pith:JVRCC5RD

pith:2013:JVRCC5RDFKRQ54OR4FUWX7OND6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Kullback-Leibler Aggregation via Information Bottleneck

Bernhard C. Geiger, Gernot Kubin, Heinz Koeppl, Tatjana Petrov

arxiv:1304.6603 v3 · 2013-04-24 · cs.SY · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JVRCC5RDFKRQ54OR4FUWX7OND6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:45:01.970281Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4d622176232aa30ef1d1e1696bfdcd1f99be0459af4beda99698f82e047b473b

Aliases

arxiv: 1304.6603 · arxiv_version: 1304.6603v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.6603 · pith_short_12: JVRCC5RDFKRQ · pith_short_16: JVRCC5RDFKRQ54OR · pith_short_8: JVRCC5RD

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/JVRCC5RDFKRQ54OR4FUWX7OND6 \
  | 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: 4d622176232aa30ef1d1e1696bfdcd1f99be0459af4beda99698f82e047b473b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "49dc64cabfc6422d5546bc8c2cd1bc4275ca97c8376524b46a5c4fe8a044f5de",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SY",
    "submitted_at": "2013-04-24T14:40:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d7ca8fa275edb658904c733a99d08edfb28d127e224149029fda027b501fb342"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1304.6603",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}