Pith Number

pith:UQ45VMK5

pith:2013:UQ45VMK5XYTE4KJFD3IGEA3HVT

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Predictive PAC Learning and Process Decompositions

Aryeh Kontorovich, Cosma Rohilla Shalizi

arxiv:1309.4859 v1 · 2013-09-19 · stat.ML

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UQ45VMK5XYTE4KJFD3IGEA3HVT}

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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	2026-05-18T01:36:22.990801Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a439dab15dbe264e29251ed0620367acf41d1518bd50f05fe9ab3ed9216e8e34

Aliases

arxiv: 1309.4859 · arxiv_version: 1309.4859v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.4859 · pith_short_12: UQ45VMK5XYTE · pith_short_16: UQ45VMK5XYTE4KJF · pith_short_8: UQ45VMK5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UQ45VMK5XYTE4KJFD3IGEA3HVT \
  | 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: a439dab15dbe264e29251ed0620367acf41d1518bd50f05fe9ab3ed9216e8e34

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b89a29e4b7904e1acf069b5cd673efdd3e5909b9e2e4f1e8f45c2e541239d56c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2013-09-19T04:57:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0522b08ce089bf665d95a10140fc72f9dcd5f7571c4046dd05914d6ca53b7582"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1309.4859",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}