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pith:2021:M2Y2CJZBSGSGZOPNBAN2NCE64V
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Near-optimal Algorithms for Explainable k-Medians and k-Means

Konstantin Makarychev, Liren Shan

arxiv:2107.00798 v2 · 2021-07-02 · cs.DS · cs.LG

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First computed 2026-07-05T03:02:56.511286Z
Builder pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature Pith Ed25519 (pith-v1-2026-05) · public key
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Canonical hash

66b1a1272191a46cb9ed081ba6889ee5732ecb4579bd47d5cf63b72e1d8f516e

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arxiv: 2107.00798 · arxiv_version: 2107.00798v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2107.00798 · pith_short_12: M2Y2CJZBSGSG · pith_short_16: M2Y2CJZBSGSGZOPN · pith_short_8: M2Y2CJZB
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Verify this Pith Number yourself
curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/M2Y2CJZBSGSGZOPNBAN2NCE64V \
  | 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: 66b1a1272191a46cb9ed081ba6889ee5732ecb4579bd47d5cf63b72e1d8f516e
Canonical record JSON
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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2021-07-02T02:07:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ae9f4c7c9cdd4bfb1ae9483533188020574aca9c7d25f7c24cf2288b438ca5de"
  },
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