Pith Number

pith:TA2CDE6W

pith:2012:TA2CDE6WRY37FX275446BV3SLD

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A Generic Path Algorithm for Regularized Statistical Estimation

Hua Zhou, Yichao Wu

arxiv:1201.3571 v1 · 2012-01-17 · stat.CO · stat.ME

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\pithnumber{TA2CDE6WRY37FX275446BV3SLD}

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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	2026-05-18T04:04:28.900192Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

98342193d68e37f2df5fef39e0d77258e4e5c08364713a33f8456b924cc1a066

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.3571 · arxiv_version: 1201.3571v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.3571 · pith_short_12: TA2CDE6WRY37 · pith_short_16: TA2CDE6WRY37FX27 · pith_short_8: TA2CDE6W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TA2CDE6WRY37FX275446BV3SLD \
  | 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: 98342193d68e37f2df5fef39e0d77258e4e5c08364713a33f8456b924cc1a066

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "11faffd7675ab09c87fe6944f8f11c8ef8dd314aced4f8b5aa56bfed6e86890e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "stat.ME"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-17T17:42:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3d4ead0593eb6b7643b9741eba12a53b1ceadf2155b606f641509604c96c2dd5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.3571",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}