Pith Number

pith:QLXQLL6R

pith:2015:QLXQLL6R5TAGNXCVEWDGMVQYQV

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Algorithmic statistics, prediction and machine learning

Alexey Milovanov

arxiv:1509.05473 v1 · 2015-09-17 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QLXQLL6R5TAGNXCVEWDGMVQYQV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:32:43.097607Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

82ef05afd1ecc066dc5525866656188552ec58a2226e0ebf09b797968b4af6a3

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.05473 · arxiv_version: 1509.05473v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.05473 · pith_short_12: QLXQLL6R5TAG · pith_short_16: QLXQLL6R5TAGNXCV · pith_short_8: QLXQLL6R

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/QLXQLL6R5TAGNXCVEWDGMVQYQV \
  | 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: 82ef05afd1ecc066dc5525866656188552ec58a2226e0ebf09b797968b4af6a3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "422c21a5ed7aca0550d4b03c9c6afd0d02df01a555020269152155fef284fb68",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-17T23:25:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c6606304c51c5941377b4919e0413b1c2c6077627dc637ad13e15ea7f6912acd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.05473",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}