Pith Number

pith:NXWPE7KA

pith:2018:NXWPE7KALANYGKICAB65T6AVST

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Generalizing Bottleneck Problems

Flavio P. Calmon, Hsiang Hsu, Salman Salamatian, Shahab Asoodeh

arxiv:1802.05861 v3 · 2018-02-16 · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NXWPE7KALANYGKICAB65T6AVST}

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:39.775339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6decf27d40581b832902007dd9f81594ec4c63465a3759bb6cb4e8592a86695b

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.05861 · arxiv_version: 1802.05861v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.05861 · pith_short_12: NXWPE7KALANY · pith_short_16: NXWPE7KALANYGKIC · pith_short_8: NXWPE7KA

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/NXWPE7KALANYGKICAB65T6AVST \
  | 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: 6decf27d40581b832902007dd9f81594ec4c63465a3759bb6cb4e8592a86695b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4224d41ff74a1fda108a5f2fcb8df6881cc9f4b06a6e0699260643a85d2fd3ee",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-16T08:22:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d645a341035a5c20c115237c56a4a683ddd511f703d1a3122c56fec25f839345"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.05861",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}