Pith Number

pith:Q2JWQ6EP

pith:2016:Q2JWQ6EPBIPLOZS3VYGZDKLK2M

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Update Strength in EDAs and ACO: How to Avoid Genetic Drift

Carsten Witt, Dirk Sudholt

arxiv:1607.04063 v2 · 2016-07-14 · cs.NE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2JWQ6EPBIPLOZS3VYGZDKLK2M}

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:01.611259Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

869368788f0a1eb7665bae0d91a96ad329439d1acf511366cb2a6c50b5bbf9b1

Aliases

arxiv: 1607.04063 · arxiv_version: 1607.04063v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.04063 · pith_short_12: Q2JWQ6EPBIPL · pith_short_16: Q2JWQ6EPBIPLOZS3 · pith_short_8: Q2JWQ6EP

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/Q2JWQ6EPBIPLOZS3VYGZDKLK2M \
  | 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: 869368788f0a1eb7665bae0d91a96ad329439d1acf511366cb2a6c50b5bbf9b1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a5fc485453e7726ad6a883a8018b3d40ac2eda88fbbb902c8b9d2ae210d4a797",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.NE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-07-14T10:11:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4a176536762fd024468d3d63eb1c8bca59d48c53644bed59455905929efd63de"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1607.04063",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}