Pith Number

pith:QM3CWUDU

pith:2018:QM3CWUDU6PUVCAMLHCSNQ6PYKO

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Bayesian Distance Clustering

David B Dunson, Leo L Duan

arxiv:1810.08537 v2 · 2018-10-19 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QM3CWUDU6PUVCAMLHCSNQ6PYKO}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:42:15.349091Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

83362b5074f3e951018b38a4d879f853b24fdf5210c42b8ff4d1f9e9145ee182

Aliases

arxiv: 1810.08537 · arxiv_version: 1810.08537v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1810.08537 · pith_short_12: QM3CWUDU6PUV · pith_short_16: QM3CWUDU6PUVCAML · pith_short_8: QM3CWUDU

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/QM3CWUDU6PUVCAMLHCSNQ6PYKO \
  | 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: 83362b5074f3e951018b38a4d879f853b24fdf5210c42b8ff4d1f9e9145ee182

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1bb846bc2c99bc03c700b6d5184a2ad6c7b595d5407a08bf37f6622bf676f3b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-10-19T15:09:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45263edba207d76f9dbbf314063291f25d38f28ad8b9c14d83451cacb98ffd18"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1810.08537",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}