Pith Number

pith:VHVETOG6

pith:2013:VHVETOG6F2CPMW63LZ2TVJQCB5

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A Decision Theoretic Approach to Targeted Advertising

David Heckerman, David Maxwell Chickering

arxiv:1301.3842 v1 · 2013-01-16 · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VHVETOG6F2CPMW63LZ2TVJQCB5}

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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	2026-05-18T03:36:15.435580Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a9ea49b8de2e84f65bdb5e753aa6020f5cc0aa294447d404753c271e4acbcf42

Aliases

arxiv: 1301.3842 · arxiv_version: 1301.3842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1301.3842 · pith_short_12: VHVETOG6F2CP · pith_short_16: VHVETOG6F2CPMW63 · pith_short_8: VHVETOG6

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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/VHVETOG6F2CPMW63LZ2TVJQCB5 \
  | 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: a9ea49b8de2e84f65bdb5e753aa6020f5cc0aa294447d404753c271e4acbcf42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3131ee34c6fd6eef58175325e8617c4b01cdef0ddda9c75a9769005c1c55294",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2013-01-16T15:49:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "90e64c01ff262d263e98b37e948aeb4ca31082b0e7f02a46351e876f62af2dce"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1301.3842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}