Pith Number

pith:QVZ6B5NX

pith:2017:QVZ6B5NXUYLQH3AIAOVICCZHAT

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Distributed Information Bottleneck Method for Discrete and Gaussian Sources

Abdellatif Zaidi, Inaki Estella Aguerri

arxiv:1709.09082 v3 · 2017-09-26 · cs.IT · math.IT

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QVZ6B5NXUYLQH3AIAOVICCZHAT}

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4 Citations open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:33:47.888784Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8573e0f5b7a61703ec0803aa810b2704fa7849e43e1988629cc20755cf55dcc4

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.09082 · arxiv_version: 1709.09082v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.09082 · pith_short_12: QVZ6B5NXUYLQ · pith_short_16: QVZ6B5NXUYLQH3AI · pith_short_8: QVZ6B5NX

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/QVZ6B5NXUYLQH3AIAOVICCZHAT \
  | 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: 8573e0f5b7a61703ec0803aa810b2704fa7849e43e1988629cc20755cf55dcc4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "94eecde8ef8ee21dc14e7f151336b23175afb47348b299bb5bddf06fb3368549",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-26T15:13:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cb26ea07e6d049e5c886190ff8154e484d4b863b79f8d1f633b476452c0f6c70"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.09082",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}