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pith:MXW3OLSP

pith:2018:MXW3OLSPAHWJEA2I7AFVLO2OPO

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An improved belief propagation algorithm for detecting meso-scale structure in complex networks

Bing-Bing Xiang, Chuang Ma, Hai-Feng Zhang, Han-Shuang Chen

arxiv:1808.09080 v1 · 2018-08-28 · physics.soc-ph · cs.SI

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:07:04.574510Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

65edb72e4f01ec920348f80b55bb4e7b8390d03741aeebf373e470b734932d68

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.09080 · arxiv_version: 1808.09080v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.09080 · pith_short_12: MXW3OLSPAHWJ · pith_short_16: MXW3OLSPAHWJEA2I · pith_short_8: MXW3OLSP

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/MXW3OLSPAHWJEA2I7AFVLO2OPO \
  | 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: 65edb72e4f01ec920348f80b55bb4e7b8390d03741aeebf373e470b734932d68

Canonical record JSON

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    "abstract_canon_sha256": "27cb82c87272f2f0251e00a46ec833b9010c8c2194eb610bd6fb4d8f9c213933",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-28T01:22:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6195ee7d9992521f7825846658a7e07698b187379eb5180bd17121d6470aefec"
  },
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  "source": {
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    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}