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pith:S6XAQWXS

pith:2025:S6XAQWXS4CVCC2PHV2EKEXLQXG

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Source-Channel Separation Theorems for Distortion Perception Coding

Chao Tian, Jun Chen, Krishna Narayanan

arxiv:2501.17706 v2 · 2025-01-29 · cs.IT · math.IT

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:29:54.666264Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97ae085af2e0aa2169e7ae88a25d70b988320ccd4b987b28f8aa6cfb173da1e4

Aliases

arxiv: 2501.17706 · arxiv_version: 2501.17706v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2501.17706 · pith_short_12: S6XAQWXS4CVC · pith_short_16: S6XAQWXS4CVCC2PH · pith_short_8: S6XAQWXS

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S6XAQWXS4CVCC2PHV2EKEXLQXG \
  | 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: 97ae085af2e0aa2169e7ae88a25d70b988320ccd4b987b28f8aa6cfb173da1e4

Canonical record JSON

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2025-01-29T15:21:56Z",
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  },
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  }
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