Pith Number

pith:R5K4LASE

pith:2017:R5K4LASEC5ENEAWSSNM2ABC2XT

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Merging $K$-means with hierarchical clustering for identifying general-shaped groups

Anna D. Peterson, Arka P. Ghosh, Ranjan Maitra

arxiv:1712.08786 v1 · 2017-12-23 · stat.ML · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R5K4LASEC5ENEAWSSNM2ABC2XT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:16.810326Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8f55c582441748d202d29359a0045abccbb9a5ec4f5fcdbe8948f950fd71bcb3

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08786 · arxiv_version: 1712.08786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08786 · pith_short_12: R5K4LASEC5EN · pith_short_16: R5K4LASEC5ENEAWS · pith_short_8: R5K4LASE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/R5K4LASEC5ENEAWSSNM2ABC2XT \
  | 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: 8f55c582441748d202d29359a0045abccbb9a5ec4f5fcdbe8948f950fd71bcb3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "75ccdb105a8be691f1da8b0d2153a86d7d028e5604872c6c7ceb269188afe327",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.CO",
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-23T15:07:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dcdd74a844bcbff080c578348f300b02e6ace9ca2b6572ace586231716bd0135"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}