Pith Number

pith:MSXB4HJQ

pith:2013:MSXB4HJQWZQRB7NCQSVFFISMNT

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Stochastic blockmodel approximation of a graphon: Theory and consistent estimation

Edoardo M Airoldi, Stanley H Chan, Thiago B Costa

arxiv:1311.1731 v2 · 2013-11-07 · stat.ME · cs.LG · cs.SI · physics.data-an · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSXB4HJQWZQRB7NCQSVFFISMNT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T03:07:13.683348Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

64ae1e1d30b66110fda284aa52a24c6cdbe17138f63a84cbb441e2bb27704628

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.1731 · arxiv_version: 1311.1731v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.1731 · pith_short_12: MSXB4HJQWZQR · pith_short_16: MSXB4HJQWZQRB7NC · pith_short_8: MSXB4HJQ

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MSXB4HJQWZQRB7NCQSVFFISMNT \
  | 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: 64ae1e1d30b66110fda284aa52a24c6cdbe17138f63a84cbb441e2bb27704628

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d27dd78e86ced028234248724b1956ef99577e706cda7475ee8ef688b9a9d27",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "cs.SI",
      "physics.data-an",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-07T16:20:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "967f1061dcc5c764e170bc6dcb69f8ba417fd570d211fcc7aa01eff5286ce7c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.1731",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}