Pith Number

pith:VFSAMPRG

pith:2016:VFSAMPRGOPGC5653LDH2VE2EZY

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Training A Quantum Optimizer

D. Wecker, M. B. Hastings, M. Troyer

arxiv:1605.05370 v1 · 2016-05-17 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFSAMPRGOPGC5653LDH2VE2EZY}

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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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Finite Imaginary-Time Evolution for Polynomial Unconstrained Binary Optimization

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:08:41.255143Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a964063e2673cc2efbbb58cfaa9344ce154f8a3544673cfbead4cc8691b846f0

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.05370 · arxiv_version: 1605.05370v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.05370 · pith_short_12: VFSAMPRGOPGC · pith_short_16: VFSAMPRGOPGC5653 · pith_short_8: VFSAMPRG

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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/VFSAMPRGOPGC5653LDH2VE2EZY \
  | 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: a964063e2673cc2efbbb58cfaa9344ce154f8a3544673cfbead4cc8691b846f0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3fa65b5eb79ae3cb23a3b0f53e81318dacbda1bf16319053c6b6ad52a036a107",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-17T21:26:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "beffed5c633281a2b4db338c8989b92575e32e15bb1c9f0877fe309f12f82f8d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.05370",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}