Pith Number

pith:QWBOIZEI

pith:2017:QWBOIZEIHW2GKTHZNG5AGNE2JU

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A scalable solution to the nearest neighbor search problem through local-search methods on neighbor graphs

Edgar Chavez, Eric S. Tellez, Guillermo Ruiz, Mario Graff

arxiv:1705.10351 v4 · 2017-05-29 · cs.DS · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QWBOIZEIHW2GKTHZNG5AGNE2JU}

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T02:52:55.158504Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8582e464883db4654cf969ba03349a4d04cba6fd485bd5e14e5c92d044cdb6a5

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.10351 · arxiv_version: 1705.10351v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.10351 · pith_short_12: QWBOIZEIHW2G · pith_short_16: QWBOIZEIHW2GKTHZ · pith_short_8: QWBOIZEI

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/QWBOIZEIHW2GKTHZNG5AGNE2JU \
  | 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: 8582e464883db4654cf969ba03349a4d04cba6fd485bd5e14e5c92d044cdb6a5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fb9c6a802465d88fc8615c29eea6941758ce8149a3f080347bc777442b603305",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DS",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-29T18:32:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8154ec009d06ae5867b0395dcc33f6c320a4a7e4c84843aea59fe5d09d75b825"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.10351",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}