Pith Number

pith:LYK4QYZC

pith:2022:LYK4QYZCUJ4XZCKMC4RWBQWHBS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Simple Decentralized Cross-Entropy Method

Dale Schuurmans, Jun Jin, Jun Luo, Martin Jagersand, Zichen Zhang

arxiv:2212.08235 v1 · 2022-12-16 · cs.LG · cs.RO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LYK4QYZCUJ4XZCKMC4RWBQWHBS}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-07-05T05:25:54.265427Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e15c86322a2797c894c172360c2c70cab1ef0c44fde6db6bbdedc796bd929b0

Aliases

arxiv: 2212.08235 · arxiv_version: 2212.08235v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.08235 · pith_short_12: LYK4QYZCUJ4X · pith_short_16: LYK4QYZCUJ4XZCKM · pith_short_8: LYK4QYZC

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/LYK4QYZCUJ4XZCKMC4RWBQWHBS \
  | 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: 5e15c86322a2797c894c172360c2c70cab1ef0c44fde6db6bbdedc796bd929b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9e105f765861e40d41d7e2cdf9e7a6b2a38c714741c724226e649248bf678f15",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2022-12-16T02:00:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c132e503c92f64da7c4c01c38e883cc2a260f222a9051eace5653d5190e09a1f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2212.08235",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}