Pith Number

pith:VA45YC3M

pith:2016:VA45YC3MENJ3MTH3WLEWSVGK3F

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Towards Music Captioning: Generating Music Playlist Descriptions

Brian McFee, George Fazekas, Keunwoo Choi, Kyunghyun Cho, Mark Sandler

arxiv:1608.04868 v2 · 2016-08-17 · cs.MM · cs.AI · cs.CL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VA45YC3MENJ3MTH3WLEWSVGK3F}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:49.797530Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a839dc0b6c2353b64cfbb2c96954cad96fa0c9df48119848ce155280bde4fd15

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.04868 · arxiv_version: 1608.04868v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.04868 · pith_short_12: VA45YC3MENJ3 · pith_short_16: VA45YC3MENJ3MTH3 · pith_short_8: VA45YC3M

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VA45YC3MENJ3MTH3WLEWSVGK3F \
  | 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: a839dc0b6c2353b64cfbb2c96954cad96fa0c9df48119848ce155280bde4fd15

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "bfdba097e92bc2a15cf9defb70bf39b46586063ef10d4c1f5a19311c7f0c91f5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.CL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.MM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-17T06:24:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c6f199ab3bff20a0cf199a784818c0e5e3219a28553a1452727018749c3c80d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.04868",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}