Pith Number

pith:UQX73PF3

pith:2024:UQX73PF37SW24QO2A3VXLLN6YR

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Is merging worth it? Securely evaluating the information gain for causal dataset acquisition

Chris Holmes, Desi Ivanova, Jake Fawkes, Lucile Ter-Minassian, Uri Shalit

arxiv:2409.07215 v3 · 2024-09-11 · stat.ML · cs.CR · cs.LG

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UQX73PF37SW24QO2A3VXLLN6YR}

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4 Citations 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	2026-07-05T11:30:37.712109Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a42ffdbcbbfcadae41da06eb75adbec4574a1427eb5b2d8cad18c4f0ba3e6148

Aliases

arxiv: 2409.07215 · arxiv_version: 2409.07215v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2409.07215 · pith_short_12: UQX73PF37SW2 · pith_short_16: UQX73PF37SW24QO2 · pith_short_8: UQX73PF3

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/UQX73PF37SW24QO2A3VXLLN6YR \
  | 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: a42ffdbcbbfcadae41da06eb75adbec4574a1427eb5b2d8cad18c4f0ba3e6148

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "262817dd02a81910d8eeea373595f19bed317bde88637e33f3332f8bc5e064a2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR",
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2024-09-11T12:17:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05c1aea61b8750ce63f5f874c46787d7d130679502fed48ba0ec66a6358e18c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2409.07215",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}