Pith Number

pith:PFKA3Q4F

pith:2017:PFKA3Q4F5SYJXTLHPJ2BO34XDN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Optimal Schemes for Discrete Distribution Estimation under Locally Differential Privacy

Alexander Barg, Min Ye

arxiv:1702.00610 v1 · 2017-02-02 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PFKA3Q4F5SYJXTLHPJ2BO34XDN}

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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	2026-05-18T00:51:33.116605Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

79540dc385ecb09bcd677a74176f971b5c1928a0bd707170c64a3deea38d05e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.00610 · arxiv_version: 1702.00610v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.00610 · pith_short_12: PFKA3Q4F5SYJ · pith_short_16: PFKA3Q4F5SYJXTLH · pith_short_8: PFKA3Q4F

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/PFKA3Q4F5SYJXTLHPJ2BO34XDN \
  | 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: 79540dc385ecb09bcd677a74176f971b5c1928a0bd707170c64a3deea38d05e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4a1344feabc49e5ca20b623675e24fec3f526777384f53f50f2e4cf83ef66c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-02T10:37:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c4ba09a4756128570e5a6ff370408e1612b19d454fc7c839ee3ac0da5cde1374"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.00610",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}