Pith Number

pith:OQTBTLFS

pith:2024:OQTBTLFSKDPSWXV6X2NUBADRE2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Markov chain Monte Carlo without evaluating the target: an auxiliary variable approach

Guanyang Wang, Wei Yuan

arxiv:2406.05242 v4 · 2024-06-07 · stat.CO · stat.ME · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OQTBTLFSKDPSWXV6X2NUBADRE2}

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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	2026-06-03T02:05:39.673237Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

742619acb250df2b5ebebe9b40807126aeebbe2110e361c3041008d9487707e2

Aliases

arxiv: 2406.05242 · arxiv_version: 2406.05242v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.05242 · pith_short_12: OQTBTLFSKDPS · pith_short_16: OQTBTLFSKDPSWXV6 · pith_short_8: OQTBTLFS

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/OQTBTLFSKDPSWXV6X2NUBADRE2 \
  | 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: 742619acb250df2b5ebebe9b40807126aeebbe2110e361c3041008d9487707e2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ac5614199bedb5c5bffa85063eb5ebad66111b734791b91c5827e1a35a64b76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2024-06-07T20:06:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c0f8864f7a357b76e41f046dcac4ce8f1c576664072f4be75c9b680c2d38c50"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2406.05242",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}