Pith Number

pith:PCMDUHJG

pith:2011:PCMDUHJGNIPIUISDS6ZHAJESI6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Variational Garrote

Hilbert J. Kappen, Vicen\c{c} G\'omez

arxiv:1109.0486 v3 · 2011-09-02 · stat.ME · cs.LG

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PCMDUHJGNIPIUISDS6ZHAJESI6}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T03:41:02.549664Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

78983a1d266a1e8a224397b270249247bb425e589a163a32439a4aeafb704413

Aliases

arxiv: 1109.0486 · arxiv_version: 1109.0486v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1109.0486 · pith_short_12: PCMDUHJGNIPI · pith_short_16: PCMDUHJGNIPIUISD · pith_short_8: PCMDUHJG

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/PCMDUHJGNIPIUISDS6ZHAJESI6 \
  | 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: 78983a1d266a1e8a224397b270249247bb425e589a163a32439a4aeafb704413

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "648b05c26a9a330378271a9002eb1d89fee5a0c2932cdf7631881cde1a7694e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2011-09-02T15:48:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4431cc6c8a0343594265cfcdf65908697b0246fdea831a270b359313a7e054b2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1109.0486",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}