Pith Number

pith:MRV54WMY

pith:2017:MRV54WMYNTTZNAO5SXHRN3C5ZO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interpretable and Pedagogical Examples

Igor Mordatch, Pieter Abbeel, Smitha Milli

arxiv:1711.00694 v2 · 2017-11-02 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MRV54WMYNTTZNAO5SXHRN3C5ZO}

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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.

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Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:23:20.993674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

646bde59986ce79681dd95cf16ec5dcbbf51d780c4c29d1939e75fa8ad765f12

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.00694 · arxiv_version: 1711.00694v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.00694 · pith_short_12: MRV54WMYNTTZ · pith_short_16: MRV54WMYNTTZNAO5 · pith_short_8: MRV54WMY

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/MRV54WMYNTTZNAO5SXHRN3C5ZO \
  | 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: 646bde59986ce79681dd95cf16ec5dcbbf51d780c4c29d1939e75fa8ad765f12

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6945be07ebeade8c9bb42d21cead30c2cc3e70b038a53a600f2549920356a908",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-02T11:40:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cd8c99c5a1a76db33afcccabe7d02618de75ff5dd2af10459c0c75edb30da40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.00694",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}