Pith Number

pith:RY4QK4LN

pith:2017:RY4QK4LNJFS5J6I5NJ43FB3XDT

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Approximating Partition Functions in Constant Time

Elchanan Mossel, Frederic Koehler, Vishesh Jain

arxiv:1711.01655 v2 · 2017-11-05 · cs.LG · cs.DS · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RY4QK4LNJFS5J6I5NJ43FB3XDT}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:58.036550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e3905716d4965d4f91d6a79b287771cddc11cb9d75fd1d097fe30c0c239302f

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01655 · arxiv_version: 1711.01655v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01655 · pith_short_12: RY4QK4LNJFS5 · pith_short_16: RY4QK4LNJFS5J6I5 · pith_short_8: RY4QK4LN

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/RY4QK4LNJFS5J6I5NJ43FB3XDT \
  | 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: 8e3905716d4965d4f91d6a79b287771cddc11cb9d75fd1d097fe30c0c239302f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c9a23b3e65e69ed04127d9deff6bf7ace395a48a43abcb38ab4c6a528e1e951b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DS",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-05T20:06:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0540e109d6fbd40867623e05ebe4ec51e45016bc3a43f34240cbc930b790481d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01655",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}