Pith Number

pith:V44U676K

pith:2017:V44U676KN7TWWNNH25WAHVBZHY

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A Compression-Inspired Framework for Macro Discovery

Bruno C. da Silva, Francisco M. Garcia, Philip S. Thomas

arxiv:1711.09048 v3 · 2017-11-24 · cs.AI · cs.RO · cs.SY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{V44U676KN7TWWNNH25WAHVBZHY}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-17T23:52:55.919588Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

af394f7fca6fe76b35a7d76c03d4393e1ad59afefc7d262629fca81e63196513

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09048 · arxiv_version: 1711.09048v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09048 · pith_short_12: V44U676KN7TW · pith_short_16: V44U676KN7TWWNNH · pith_short_8: V44U676K

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/V44U676KN7TWWNNH25WAHVBZHY \
  | 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: af394f7fca6fe76b35a7d76c03d4393e1ad59afefc7d262629fca81e63196513

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9cc1353a9bff203f3635cd793f143121a3cf587f06a9a62a6298205ab8b7428b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.RO",
      "cs.SY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-24T16:58:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ec2a35efa7e7944c679874d9fe00d93e41600efa043b078976ee2c8a5c1bf777"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09048",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}