Pith Number

pith:SYZBJ7FT

pith:2019:SYZBJ7FTGF2KB3GZTHOVL5OAKD

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A Novel Approach to the Partial Information Decomposition

Artemy Kolchinsky

arxiv:1908.08642 v4 · 2019-08-23 · cs.IT · math.IT · q-bio.NC · stat.ML

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SYZBJ7FTGF2KB3GZTHOVL5OAKD}

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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	2026-07-05T05:17:22.730625Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

963214fcb33174a0ecd999dd55f5c050db19bda19dec2d59dd43319b72be7ead

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.08642 · arxiv_version: 1908.08642v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.08642 · pith_short_12: SYZBJ7FTGF2K · pith_short_16: SYZBJ7FTGF2KB3GZ · pith_short_8: SYZBJ7FT

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/SYZBJ7FTGF2KB3GZTHOVL5OAKD \
  | 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: 963214fcb33174a0ecd999dd55f5c050db19bda19dec2d59dd43319b72be7ead

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fbe52d91bd5538ecc2f8f9d748d49b9e1ac4de5258bef4ee583b5ea5646c04a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT",
      "q-bio.NC",
      "stat.ML"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-23T02:33:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "771f0ab4a462b76e3aa64249cfbd69382edc2b2bf50c3be78e029012bed70f02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.08642",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}