Pith Number

pith:V2KNS3IE

pith:2018:V2KNS3IEE4L5MOVWW3Q2NTIGJA

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Greedy Variance Estimation for the LASSO

Christopher Kennedy, Rachel Ward

arxiv:1803.10878 v3 · 2018-03-28 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.TH

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V2KNS3IEE4L5MOVWW3Q2NTIGJA}

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:51:14.631442Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ae94d96d042717d63ab6b6e1a6cd06483c788032d21c9a447d8a22060ad22ad8

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.10878 · arxiv_version: 1803.10878v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.10878 · pith_short_12: V2KNS3IEE4L5 · pith_short_16: V2KNS3IEE4L5MOVW · pith_short_8: V2KNS3IE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V2KNS3IEE4L5MOVWW3Q2NTIGJA \
  | 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: ae94d96d042717d63ab6b6e1a6cd06483c788032d21c9a447d8a22060ad22ad8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f08534787b7235ea904f61102814e3ce0963843572546035793c171579035ec9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IT",
      "math.IT",
      "stat.TH"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-28T23:43:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "eecc6ce65fba775a8a9cd7c160395d5120e1ab910869054f157425f69c2e5eb4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.10878",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}