Pith Number

pith:R5JZXREE

pith:2017:R5JZXREEWJU6JSE7U4YT77HBOM

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SafePredict: A Meta-Algorithm for Machine Learning That Uses Refusals to Guarantee Correctness

David Ramirez, Dennis E. Shasha, Elza Erkip, Mustafa A. Kocak

arxiv:1708.06425 v2 · 2017-08-21 · cs.LG · cs.AI · math.ST · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5JZXREEWJU6JSE7U4YT77HBOM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T00:30:57.448089Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f539bc484b269e4c89fa7313ffce1733451672fd75b0e476bcb554e3dbcddb4

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.06425 · arxiv_version: 1708.06425v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.06425 · pith_short_12: R5JZXREEWJU6 · pith_short_16: R5JZXREEWJU6JSE7 · pith_short_8: R5JZXREE

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R5JZXREEWJU6JSE7U4YT77HBOM \
  | 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: 8f539bc484b269e4c89fa7313ffce1733451672fd75b0e476bcb554e3dbcddb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4ca2099905e94eb5c47e33bcda9a39fb3b289ec8cd560248b412146706810b3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "math.ST",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-21T21:23:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "20127c6411b6d7b772ec96eaa73a6ff2055e095e8e7716f48a24ffcedbff34f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.06425",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}