Pith Number

pith:R52IF2YJ

pith:2020:R52IF2YJOWFQKOAQM6JBGEJK3B

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Disentangled Information Bottleneck

Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang, Ziqi Pan

arxiv:2012.07372 v3 · 2020-12-14 · cs.LG · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R52IF2YJOWFQKOAQM6JBGEJK3B}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-07-05T02:01:19.363197Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f7482eb09758b053810679213112ad84f687132a45246f181e91307f3c4f5b8

Aliases

arxiv: 2012.07372 · arxiv_version: 2012.07372v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2012.07372 · pith_short_12: R52IF2YJOWFQ · pith_short_16: R52IF2YJOWFQKOAQ · pith_short_8: R52IF2YJ

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/R52IF2YJOWFQKOAQM6JBGEJK3B \
  | 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: 8f7482eb09758b053810679213112ad84f687132a45246f181e91307f3c4f5b8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "83b63d17e39c047af084c599eddb1d57880cab3bcb987bfe35f25bc333c51859",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2020-12-14T09:44:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "439f1c33b5359519ad6f670b12140ebe1cbf6936a8ae75e9df042ca7a3f9d038"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2012.07372",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}