Pith Number

pith:TTS7NBCV

pith:2018:TTS7NBCV4NX6RU6LUYEQ7TEH4B

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Why Interpretability in Machine Learning? An Answer Using Distributed Detection and Data Fusion Theory

Kush R. Varshney, Pramod K. Varshney, Pranay Sharma, Prashant Khanduri, Shan Zhang

arxiv:1806.09710 v1 · 2018-06-25 · stat.ML · cs.IT · cs.LG · math.IT

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:12:23.680368Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9ce5f68455e36fe8d3cba6090fcc87e059a93b3afbec58c3ba274803035c6486

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.09710 · arxiv_version: 1806.09710v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.09710 · pith_short_12: TTS7NBCV4NX6 · pith_short_16: TTS7NBCV4NX6RU6L · pith_short_8: TTS7NBCV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TTS7NBCV4NX6RU6LUYEQ7TEH4B \
  | 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: 9ce5f68455e36fe8d3cba6090fcc87e059a93b3afbec58c3ba274803035c6486

Canonical record JSON

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      "cs.LG",
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-25T21:37:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1358a03a8cd3840ec1b964349f71bbc6ccfa422e09820dd60c2bac395a1befa4"
  },
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  }
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