Pith Number

pith:SWFUYWTZ

pith:2020:SWFUYWTZGDO4TZC7RXIYQSLSH6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Non-reversibly updating a uniform [0,1] value for Metropolis accept/reject decisions

Radford M. Neal

arxiv:2001.11950 v1 · 2020-01-31 · stat.CO · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SWFUYWTZGDO4TZC7RXIYQSLSH6}

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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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1 paper in Pith

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:37:35.194360Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

958b4c5a7930ddc9e45f8dd18849723f89f19678926f0ba1f1223c939ebc8077

Aliases

arxiv: 2001.11950 · arxiv_version: 2001.11950v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.11950 · pith_short_12: SWFUYWTZGDO4 · pith_short_16: SWFUYWTZGDO4TZC7 · pith_short_8: SWFUYWTZ

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/SWFUYWTZGDO4TZC7RXIYQSLSH6 \
  | 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: 958b4c5a7930ddc9e45f8dd18849723f89f19678926f0ba1f1223c939ebc8077

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7473fe7b7d3fe40e864a8a48ac5b99ae97e4c741ae1fac147ba9217cf3469ee6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2020-01-31T16:57:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1af60dd5e6793623605d9ef3202b90159d5afab9a504330647b03d7e34a9d332"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2001.11950",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}