Pith Number

pith:VKTOUQT5

pith:2019:VKTOUQT5BDOY5OLPZEKG6WUD5E

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Enhanced Balancing of Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Stochastic Estimation: A Minimax Perspective

Henry Lam, Xinyu Zhang, Xuhui Zhang

arxiv:1902.04673 v1 · 2019-02-12 · stat.ME

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VKTOUQT5BDOY5OLPZEKG6WUD5E}

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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	2026-05-17T23:54:06.312540Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aaa6ea427d08dd8eb96fc9146f5a83e9087eb46059c5997652a6abdb4da4e775

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.04673 · arxiv_version: 1902.04673v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.04673 · pith_short_12: VKTOUQT5BDOY · pith_short_16: VKTOUQT5BDOY5OLP · pith_short_8: VKTOUQT5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VKTOUQT5BDOY5OLPZEKG6WUD5E \
  | 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: aaa6ea427d08dd8eb96fc9146f5a83e9087eb46059c5997652a6abdb4da4e775

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f402af3b411df304a32c543e82753692070dcf923c3aa95d840b7c7f64ee7290",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-12T23:35:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7aeecc1f428400e067e804143f3d2a04e6f7be57339fdbf3039d19c621f179f3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.04673",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}