Pith Number

pith:TVG4D6BE

pith:2017:TVG4D6BE2BF2UCMY6MXQOUJNTK

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Asymptotically efficient estimators for stochastic blockmodels: the naive MLE, the rank-constrained MLE, and the spectral

Carey E. Priebe, Joshua Cape, Minh Tang

arxiv:1710.10936 v1 · 2017-10-30 · stat.ME

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:31:46.044517Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9d4dc1f824d04baa0998f32f07512d9ab8e9c56565658ff959d91bca72a5cc0e

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.10936 · arxiv_version: 1710.10936v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.10936 · pith_short_12: TVG4D6BE2BF2 · pith_short_16: TVG4D6BE2BF2UCMY · pith_short_8: TVG4D6BE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TVG4D6BE2BF2UCMY6MXQOUJNTK \
  | 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: 9d4dc1f824d04baa0998f32f07512d9ab8e9c56565658ff959d91bca72a5cc0e

Canonical record JSON

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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-30T13:44:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c5dcd00099f7b3bbeb0c2f84102ddf782695fc354f434b9c4f7983a59a0280d"
  },
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  "source": {
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  }
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